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Today, at the age of 85, actor and bodybuilder David Prowse died, who played the character of Darth Vader in the first Star Wars trilogy. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Prowse’s agent, Thomas Bowington, spoke to the BBC about the actor’s death, calling it “a real and deeply painful loss for us and millions of fans around the world.” “May the force be with him, always,” he said.
Prowse was a bodybuilder in the 1970s, and it was his stance and his imposing physique that made him win the role of Darth VCome to in the saga. Have a very strong British accent, Prowse was voiced by actor James Count Jones not paper.
“Although he was famous for playing many monsters, for me and for everyone who knew Dave and worked with him, he was a hero in our lives,” said the agent.
Prowse would initially play Chewbacca, but ended up playing the series’ main antagonist. He is also known for having lived the servant Julian from “Clockwork Orange”
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On the big screen, he also did “Vampire Circus”, “Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell” and “Clockwork Orange”. He played Green Cross Code Man, a superhero created in the 1970s, during a road safety campaign in the UK.
Prowse spent decades participating in global Star Wars events, but is rumored to have left the series in 2010, when he fell out with director George Lucas.
Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the first Star Wars trilogy, paid tribute to Prowse with a post on Twitter.
“It is very sad to hear that David Prowse passed away. He was a kind man and much more than Darth Vader. Actor, husband, father, member of the Order of the British Empire, three-time British champion weightlifter and road safety icon with superhero Green Cross Code Man, “Hamill listed, recalling Prowse’s accomplishments.
“He loved his fans as much as he loved him,” he concluded.
