1994 Peter Cushing, age 81 – British actor (The Curse of Frankenstein, The Horror of Dracula, Tales from the Crypt, Top Secret!, The Mummy, Dr. Who and the Daleks, Star Wars, Hamlet, At the Earth’s Core) He did many movies for the Hammer House of Horror. He was in the movie Dr. Phibes Rises Again, with John Thaw. In the movie, The Great Houdini, he portrayed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He played Sherlock Holmes in a 1959 production of The Hound of the Baskervilles, the 1984 movie The Masks of Death, and in the 1967 BBC Sherlock Holmes series
A sad day for Horror movies and movies in general.
