Posted on 11/29/2020 12:28:32 AM PST by PallMal
David Prowse, the champion English weightlifter and bodybuilder who supplied his 6-foot-7 frame — but not the voice or the deep breathing — to portray Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, died early in the morning on Saturday following a short illness. He was 85.
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RIP.
AWWW! He was also in A Clockwork Orange.
RIP
Uncommonly tall men and women often live a life that is very different than 96% of the population. I never had that concern. I’m only 5ft 8. The majority of western civilization is built for men 6ft or less and women 5 ft 6 or less. Furniture, doorways, taxi seats, even rides on a roller coaster are usually going to be too small.
The fortunate ones just adapt to living in an undersized surrounding. Concluding: “It’s a Small World After All.
It’s A Small, Small, World!”
It was his role in Clockwork Orange that got him noticed by George Lucas, so that minor part had major consequences in his life. RIP
It was only at the premier when he realized that James Earl Jones' voice was coming out of his body.
That must have been one giant kick in the Jimmy.
A dual kick.
James Earl Jones didn’t have a credit in the original 1977 version of Star Wars.
Yeah, I guess I am a real dick.
"Prowse spoke his lines in his West Country accent during the filming in London as Carrie Fisher playfully nicknamed him "Darth Farmer" because of his rural tone. He said he realized his voice was hard to make out through the thick mask but was told his dialogue would be added down the road. But months later, back in the U.S., Lucas subbed in the deep voice of James Earl Jones for his during postproduction. "
lol
At Jones' request.
I think I remember that.
He thought that the silly space movie wouldn’t be a thing.
I don’t like the “A New Hope” revised title either.
And maybe I’m just missing something obvious, but I don’t even know what that title means. Who was hoping for what?
I talked to a few people about Star Wars, and other people don’t seem to know either what exactly the hope is all about in that movie.
The rise of the Rebellion as an actual threat to the Empire.
Speaking of James Earl Jones AND Barack Obama. I heard on radio the other night that it took O longer ie 26 yrs to record the audio version of his latest book.
But JEJones took less time to record the Bible.
Wonder if that is true?
David Prowse is married to a sister to a friend of mine who lives here in Lakewood, Colorado. My buddy is actually the in-law and his wife is the sister to Mrs Prowse. Anyway, it cracked me up when he first told me about the relationship and how the Prowses would come stay with them for a week, each and every year. I remember him saying “Yeah, Billy, there’s nothing more disturbing or surreal than getting up in the middle of the night to sneak down the dark hallway to the kitchen and crossing paths with Darth Vader’s tall frame as he exists my guest bathroom.”
Interesting to know! I was a friend of Dave’s since 1978 and dreaded that someday this sad news would happen. I hadn’t seen him since about 2016 and wrote to his wife back in March to say I’d be in London. His Alzheimer’s had progressed too far at that point for me to visit. His wife was a true rock to go through all those sad years.
So many memories in the US and UK! Years ago I had visited at his London fitness centre and he asked me to walk with him to the nearby clinic at St Thomas Hospital to have his then-new arthritis problem checked out. He asked me if I wanted to wait with him but to my regret I didn’t.
Just Friday I saw a Hallmark Darth Vader Christmas ornament, thought about him and bought it, wondering if this would be his last Christmas.
RIP
Thank you for sharing that! You were a good friend! I hope you can still reach out to his wife. I’m sure she’s as lovely as her sister, whom I once knew.
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