LONDON (AP) — Dave Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who performed Darth Vader within the unique “Star Wars” trilogy, has died. He was 85.
Prowse died Saturday after a brief sickness, his agent Thomas Bowington stated Sunday.
Born in Bristol, southwest England, in 1935, Prowse represented England in weightlifting on the Commonwealth Video games within the 1950s earlier than breaking into films with roles that emphasised his commanding dimension, together with Frankenstein’s monster in a pair of horror movies.
Director George Lucas noticed Prowse in a small half in “A Clockwork Orange” and requested the 6-foot-6-inch (2-meter) actor to audition for the villainous Vader or the wookie Chewbacca in “Star Wars.”
Prowse later advised the BBC he selected Darth Vader as a result of “you at all times bear in mind the dangerous guys.”
Bodily, Prowse was good for the half. His lilting English West Nation accent was thought of much less preferrred, and his strains have been dubbed by James Earl Jones.
Prowse was additionally recognized to a technology of British kids because the Inexperienced Cross Code Man, a superhero in a sequence of street security ads
“Ant-Man” director Edgar Wright paid tribute to Prowse on Twitter.
“As a child Dave Prowse couldn’t be extra well-known to me; stalking alongside corridors as evil incarnate within the a part of Darth Vader & stopping an entire technology of kiddies from being mown down in road because the Inexperienced Cross Code man,” he wrote. “Relaxation in Peace, Bristol’s best.”
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