David Prowse
David Prowse
David Prowse, MBEis an English bodybuilder, weightlifter and actor. He played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, though the character's voice was provided by James Earl Jones. He also played the Green Cross Code man, a character used in British road safety advertising...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBodybuilder
Date of Birth1 July 1935
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The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader.
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But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.
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I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
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Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.
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Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.
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By then of course I knew my voice would be overdubbed and I wasn't worried about saying my lines quite as correctly as I did in the first film.
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The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.
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As a director he was not that interested in Vader.
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It's obviously primarily for sci-fi fans, but it's a nice sort of quirky movie that appeals to all sorts of people. I think it's quite good.
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It sounded like a lot of fun, so I agreed to come over and do it. I think it's lovely and the fans totally enjoy it.
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Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
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I sense something. A presence I've not felt since...
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Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.