David Prowse
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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 establish…
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Doctor Who
1963 · TV
The Rachel Maddow Show
2008 · TV
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962 · TV
Star Wars
1977 · Movie
The Saint
1962 · TV
The Wednesday Play
1964 · TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · TV
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 · Movie
Space: 1999
1975 · TV
A Clockwork Orange
1971 · Movie
Return of the Jedi
1983 · Movie
Softly, Softly
1966 · TV