Posted on 03/21/2023 11:04:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
“Star Wars” actor Paul Grant has died after suddenly collapsing in the street outside London’s King’s Cross train station.
Grant, who has held roles in two of the biggest movie franchises in existence, was found unresponsive on the ground outside the station on Thursday, according to Sky News.
Despite best efforts to resuscitate Grant, he was declared brain dead by doctors following the collapse, the outlet noted.
He had been kept alive on life support since his collapse.
However, the actor was pronounced dead early Monday morning after his family ultimately opted to remove him from life support due to his diagnosis.
A London Ambulance Service representative told Sky News that they had dispatched a unit on Thursday after receiving “reports of an incident.”
“We sent an ambulance crew and a medic in a response car,” the representative said.
“We treated a man at the scene and took him to hospital as a priority.”
The actor is survived by his girlfriend, two daughters, and one son, as well as stepchildren and grandchildren.
One of the daughters, Sophie Jayne Grant, gave a pained statement to Sky News:
“I’m heartbroken… No girl deserves their dad to be taken away…
“He was so well known and loved [for his work]. He’s gone too soon.”
Grant has held roles in cult classics like 1988’s “Willow” and 1986’s “Labyrinth.”
But most fans are likely familiar with his work from two massive movie franchises — “Harry Potter” and “Star Wars.”
According to the movie database IMDb, Grant has an uncredited role in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” the first film in that franchise’s history, as one of the goblins.
In that movie, goblins were typically seen running the Gringotts Bank.
But Grant’s most iconic work easily came in 1983 when he portrayed an Ewok in the third Star Wars film “Return of the Jedi.”
According to the New York Post, the 4-foot-4 movie star lived with Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, “a rare genetic type of dwarfism.”
Grant took the dwarfism in stride, often jokingly calling himself the “King of Dwarves,” according to his girlfriend.
“He always brought a smile and laughter to everyone’s face,” Jayne Grant told the Post.
No cause of death has been revealed.
Three weeks before his death, Grant was filmed at the same location he collapsed, discussing how he “blew” his Star Wars fortune and was “drinking too much”.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/paul-grant-star-wars-ewok-actor-dies/
Mr Grant had struggled with substance abuse in recent years and his marriage had fallen apart.
He told the Mirror in 2014: “I’ve been on cocaine and it has just got worse. I’m drinking and smoking what I can get. I’m all right but I do need help.”
“I don’t know what I want at the moment. I had money, I blew it all, I spent it on drugs and prostitutes.”
He added: “I’ve spent a lot of money on drugs and prostitutes, money from the films.”
Seems like an odd statement.
Loved for his work? Sure.
Loved as a person? ... meh.
But I'm sure he was a lovely man and the statement is just badly chosen by a journalist. RIP
Actors can be difficult people in real life..................
“I don’t know what I want at the moment. I had money, I blew it all, I spent it on drugs and prostitutes.”
The rest he just wasted...................
A little midget with a big drug habit
Is that a “Little Oscar” he’s holding?
What did he play, R2D2?
You might hear ‘em howlin’ around your kitchen door.
Better not let ‘em in.
Healthy people droppin’ like flies
Wuhan Vaccine again
“He told the Mirror in 2014: “I’ve been on cocaine and it has just got worse. I’m drinking and smoking what I can get. I’m all right but I do need help.”
“I don’t know what I want at the moment. I had money, I blew it all, I spent it on drugs and prostitutes.”
He added: “I’ve spent a lot of money on drugs and prostitutes, money from the films.” “
You have to wonder how people like him, who seem to have it all, get so screwed up. And he’s not the only one.
There is something going on with his eyes in this picture.
The eyes are pointed at different focal points, as though one of the eyes was false.
Doesn’t matter now, of course.
Some people’s lives are not served well by fame.
It’s like Yeshua’s warning about the greater difficulty for the “rich” man to get into heaven. It’s not about the riches. Its the greater temptations that can come with having riches, requiring a moral strength against temptations that are not so often seen by a “poor” man. The riches add to the temptations by the “rich” man thinking he can buy his way out of the consequences of the temptations, adding additional moral weakness to his problems.
You ain’t seen nuthin yet. Just wait until San Francisco gives every black person $5 million, a house for $1, and a guaranteed $97,000 annual income for 250 years.
I had a friend whose eyes were pointed in slightly different directions..........
He played a Viet Cong an Ewok in Empire Strikes Back. He claims he also donned the R2-D2 costume when Kenny Baker wasn't available, but this guy was 4' 4" tall. Kenny Baker, who actually played R2, was only 3' 8". A difference of 8 inches. I seriously doubt Grant fit in the R2 costume.
>> A little midget
I can’t imagine how small that would be
Real people can be real asses too.
True, but Hollywood seems to have a Higher concentration of them!.............
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