David Prowse
Acting
- Born:
- 1935-07-01
- Died:
- 2020-11-29
- Place of birth:
- Bristol, England, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography
Star Wars at the BBC
Elstree 1976
I Am Your Father
The Bloodiest Show on Earth: Making Vampire Circus
The Rachel Maddow Show
Legend of Hammer: Vampires
You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman
Open Mic'rs
Collectormania 7
The Story of Star Wars
Saving Star Wars
Comic Book: The Movie
The Unauthorized Star Wars Story
Return of the Ewok
The World of Hammer
Zombie Jamboree ‘93
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Crossbow
Return of the Jedi
The Rose Medallion
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Empire Strikes Back
As You Like It
The BBC Television Shakespeare
The Star Wars Holiday Special
The Making of Star Wars
The People That Time Forgot
Star Wars
Gulliver's Travels
Jabberwocky
Space: 1999
Confessions of a Pop Performer
Churchill's People
Callan
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Warship
Black Snake
White Cargo
Arthur of the Britons
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
Vampire Circus
Up the Chastity Belt
A Clockwork Orange
Carry On Henry
Up Pompeii
The Horror of Frankenstein
From a Bird's Eye View
Ace of Wands
Codename
Crossplot
Department S
Hark at Barker
The Champions
Hammerhead
Deadly Sweet
Boy Meets Girl
Casino Royale
Callan
Softly, Softly
The Wednesday Play
Doctor Who
The Saint
The Beverly Hillbillies