David Prowse

Born: 1935-07-01, Bristol, England, UK

Died: 2020-11-29

Biography

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.

Filmography

• The Rachel Maddow Show (2008)
• The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
• Star Wars (1977)
• The Wednesday Play (1964)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• The Champions (1968)
• Softly, Softly (1966)
• Crossbow (1987)
• Churchill's People (1974)
• Boy Meets Girl (1967)
• Ace of Wands (1970)
• The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
• Jabberwocky (1977)
• From a Bird's Eye View (1970)
• The People That Time Forgot (1977)
• Crossplot (1969)
• The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
• Carry On Henry (1971)
• Vampire Circus (1972)
• The Making of Star Wars (1977)
• Up Pompeii (1971)
• Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
• Col cuore in gola (1967)
• Comic Book: The Movie (2004)
• Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975)
• Up the Chastity Belt (1972)
• The Story of Star Wars (2004)
• Doctor Who: The Time Monster (1972)