David Prowse

Known for ActingBorn 1935-07-01Died 2020-11-29Bristol, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Zombie Jamboree ‘93

Saving Star Wars

The Empire Strikes Back

As You Like It

Star Wars

A Clockwork Orange

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Return of the Jedi

Arthur of the Britons

Codename

Doctor Who

The Story of Star Wars

Softly, Softly

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

The Saint

Space: 1999

The Making of Star Wars

The Rose Medallion

The World of Hammer

Callan

Callan

I Am Your Father

The Beverly Hillbillies

Warship

Elstree 1976

The Champions

Hark at Barker

Crossbow

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

Ace of Wands

The Rachel Maddow Show

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Up Pompeii

Carry On Henry

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Jabberwocky

Comic Book: The Movie

From a Bird's Eye View

Star Wars at the BBC

White Cargo

Vampire Circus

Doctor Who: The Time Monster

The Horror of Frankenstein

Hammerhead

Gulliver's Travels

Crossplot

Department S