David Prowse
Born 1935-07-01, Bristol, England, UK, Died 2020-11-29
David Charles Prowse (1 July 1935 – 28 November 2020) was an English actor, bodybuilder, strongman and weightlifter. He portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy and a manservant in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. In 2015, he starred in two documentaries concerning his Darth Vader role, one titled The Force's Mouth, which included Prowse voicing Darth Vader's lines with studio effects applied for the first time, and the other titled I Am Your Father, covering the subject of the fallout between Prowse and Lucasfilm. Prior to his role as Vader, Prowse had established himself as a super-hero figure in the United Kingdom as the Green Cross Man in Green Cross Code media aimed at teaching children and young people road safety. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Prowse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Star Wars
- Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) as Darth Vader (performer)
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as Darth Vader
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) as Darth Vader
John Williams
- Star Wars (1977) as Darth Vader (performer)
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as Darth Vader
- Return of the Jedi (1983) as Darth Vader