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He played the dark character from “Star Wars” Darth Vader: According to media reports, British actor David Prowse died at the age of 85. This was reported by the British BBC and the Hollywood Reporter, citing agent Thomas Bowington.
“May the Force always be with him!” Bowington said accordingly. Prowse died after a brief illness, a loss for “millions of fans around the world.”
His height of around six feet is said to have helped Prowse play his role as Darth Vader when the first “Star Wars” movie, “Star Wars”, came out in 1977. Darth Vader is in the famous series from movies about the dark side of the force and is the opponent of the hero Luke Skywalker.
Director George Lucas met the former bodybuilder through the movie “Clockwork Orange.” Later, Prowse described being offered two roles: that of the villainous Darth Vader and that of the furry and grumpy giant Chewbacca. He chose the villain because you always remember him, Prowse told the BBC.
In Darth Vader’s fight scenes, Prowse had been replaced by fencer Bob Anderson, who had died in 2012 at the age of 89. James Earl Jones took on the speaking part of the role. His West Country accent is said to have been deemed inappropriate for the role of a menacing Hollywood villain.
In his autobiography, Prowse wrote that he performed every gesture Darth Vader made as a bodybuilding pose. He refined and exaggerated until the figure “spoke” with every bow of the head or movement of the arms. “
The ultimate canvas villain of all time
No one will ever forget Darth Vader, Prowse was quoted as saying by the BBC in 2012. So it was a great honor for him to have played the “quintessential screen villain of all time.”
“Although he was famous for playing many monsters, to me and to everyone who knew Dave and worked with him, he was a hero in our lives,” Bowington said, according to the BBC.
