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- British actor David Prowse has passed away.
- The 85-year-old was best known for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy.
- His agent, Thomas Bowington, confirmed the news of his death after he battled a brief illness. “May the force be with him, always!” he said.
Darth Vader actor David Prowse has died.
The British actor who played Luke Skywalker’s father in the original Star Wars trilogy has died at age 85.
His agent, Thomas Bowington confirmed his death to BBC, revealing that he died after a brief illness. “A truly and deeply heartbreaking loss for us and millions of fans around the world,” he said.
“May the force be with him, always!” added. “Although he is famous for playing many monsters, to me and to everyone who knew Dave and worked with him, he was a hero in our lives.”
The former bodybuilder-turned-actor was chosen to play Darth Vader because of his imposing physique – he was 1.98m tall and represented England at the Commonwealth Games in the early 1960s, while James Earl Jones gave him an added voice. threatening to the one with David’s southern accent.
“We called him Darth Farmer,” Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the movies, once said, according to Sky News.
‘You can be like me!’ A potential client admires Dave Prowse, who works in the maintenance department in the form of Harrods.
But before taking on the iconic role, as a weightlifter, he befriended many in Hollywood, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno, while working as a personal trainer to help prepare Christopher Reeve for the role of Superman.
He then starred in the 1967 James Bond parody Royal Casino playing Frankenstein’s Creature, a role he played in two more movies, and series like The Saint, Space 1999 Y Doctor who.
However, he maintained throughout his career that his “best” role, one that earned him an MBE, was that of Green Cross Code Man, a character who appeared in television commercials to warn children about the dangers of crossing. the street.
Actor Dave Prowse, who plays Darth Vader in Star Wars, in his role as Green Cross Code Man.
