Charles Coburn

Charles Coburn has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures at 6240 Hollywood Boulevard. Finally, towards the end of his life, Cushing played the detective in old age, in The Masks of Death for Channel 4. He died from a heart attack in New York, New York. He followed this up with a performance in 16 episodes of the BBC series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (1968), of which unfortunately only 6 episodes survive. His other film credits include The Lady Eve (1941), Kings Row (1942), The Constant Nymph (1943), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Wilson (1944), The Paradine Case (1947) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). Cushing played Sherlock Holmes numerous times, starting with Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), the first colour Holmes film. He was also nominated for his roles in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and The Green Years (1946). He was one of many stars to guest on The Morecambe and Wise Show – the standing joke in his case being the idea that he was never paid for his appearance.

He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The More the Merrier (1943). Who and the Daleks and Daleks — Invasion Earth 2150 AD) based on the television series Doctor Who. After his wife's death in 1937, Coburn relocated to Los Angeles, California and began acting in films. Who in two movies (Dr. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Coburn formed an acting company with his wife, and in addition to managing the company, the couple performed frequently on Broadway. In the mid-1960s, he played the eccentric human scientist Dr. Charles Douville Coburn (June 17, 1877 – August 30, 1961) was an American film and theater actor. Cushing drew much praise for his performance in this production, although he always felt that his performance in the existing version of the play – it was performed twice in one week and only the second version survives in the archives – was inferior to the first.