Head to headPeter Cushing against Christopher Lee Both careers by IMDb ratingPeter CushingChristopher Lee
Tale of the tape as an actor
Peter Cushing vs Christopher Lee
Peter Cushing averages 6.15 across 63 rated films as an actor, ahead of Christopher Lee at 5.94.
- 74 (63 rated)
- Films acted
- 130 (102 rated)
- ◀6.15
- Average
- 5.94
- ◀6.20
- Weighted
- 6.02
- ◀Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 8.6
- Best film
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 7.7
- 6.84, 1957 to 1959
- Peak five
- 7.06, 1998 to 2005▶
- None
- Longest 7+ run
- 2 films▶
- 5.18 (−0.97)
- Current form
- 6.28 (+0.34)▶
- 1.99M
- IMDb votes
- 4.13M▶
- 1940 to 1986
- Career
- 1951 to 2013
- None
- Oscars
- None
Rows won
3 to 4
Christopher Lee ahead
Films together
16
averaging 6.21
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
 The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | 7.0 | as Creature | as Victor Frankenstein |
 Horror of Dracula | 1958 | 7.2 | as Count Dracula | as Doctor Van Helsing |
 The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1959 | 6.9 | as Sir Henry | as Sherlock Holmes |
 The Mummy | 1959 | 6.6 | as The Mummy | as John Banning |
| The Gorgon | 1964 | 6.4 | as Prof. Karl Meister | as Dr. Namaroff |
| Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | 1965 | 6.6 | as Franklyn Marsh (segment: Disembodied Hand) | as Dr. Terror |
| She | 1965 | 5.8 | as Billali | as Holly |
| The Skull | 1965 | 6.2 | as Sir Matthew Phillips | as Christopher Maitland |
| Night of the Big Heat | 1967 | 5.6 | as Godfrey Hanson | as Dr. Vernon Stone |
| Scream and Scream Again | 1970 | 5.5 | as Fremont | as Major Heinrich Benedek |
| The House That Dripped Blood | 1971 | 6.5 | as Reid (segment: Sweets to the Sweet) | as Philip (segment: Waxworks) |
| I, Monster | 1971 | 5.7 | as Dr. Charles Marlowe | as Frederick Utterson |
| Dracula A.D. 1972 | 1972 | 5.9 | as Count Dracula | as Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing |
 Horror Express | 1972 | 6.5 | as Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton | as Doctor Wells |
| The Creeping Flesh | 1973 | 6.1 | as James Hildern | as Emmanuel Hildern |
| Nothing But the Night | 1973 | 5.5 | as Colonel Charles Bingham | as Sir Mark Ashley |
| The Satanic Rites of Dracula | 1973 | 5.5 | as Count Dracula | as Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing |
| House of the Long Shadows | 1983 | 6.2 | as Corrigan | as Sebastian Grisbane |