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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. I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
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But it turned out that Vader was an icon who the kids thought was wonderful, so the campaign became much more successful because of Star Wars.
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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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So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!
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Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.
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[On his work as the Green Cross Code Man]: "Best job I`ve ever had."
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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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I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn`t be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I`m smiling and laughing like mad!
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I`ve seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.
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I can`t get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!
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Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.
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Actually I`m not that involved in the fan site.
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My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
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George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!
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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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I, and I`m sure many celebrities, have a certain amount of guilt over letters that didn`t get answered or got answered after long delays.
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[Asked if during the making of the star wars trilogy at any point did he feel claustrophobic due to the mask and suit completely covering his whole body while at Collectormania 10 at Milton Keynes] "The suit was made to fit and was very very comfortable so no I didn`t feel at all claustrophobic but the only problem I did experience was that in the mask I got very very hot!"
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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`d worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
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I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.
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[On having to choose between playing Darth Vader and Chewbacca in `Star Wars`]: "I took the part of the villain because everyone remembers the villain."
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I`m also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn`t be worked out.
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Trivia
His peak height was 6' 6" to 6' 7". After surgeries and due to his age, he has lost several inches.
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played part of the aid to Patrick Magee's character in the movie Clockwork Orange. He was chosen due to the fact that he was able to lift and carry the wheelchair-bound Magee. He said that the director was not known as "one-take Kubrick" and he had to repeat the scene multiple times. At one point the shooting was halted because the recording technician said that there was a strange noise in the last take. This was discovered to be due to a microphone that was on David and picking up his accelerated heartbeat and heavier breathing.
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He was the special guest at the first Sci-Fi convention in the north west (UK) at Lancaster and Morecambe college on the 3rd October 2004.
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Prowse and James Earl Jones have never met in person.
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Is a former weightlifting champion.
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Was the Green Cross Code man, a character used to teach [UK] children how to cross the road safely.
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Owns a gym "The Dave Prowse Fitness Centre" in London, England, UK. His brother Bob Prowse used to manage it for him before opening his own Health Club in Maidstone.
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He commented in an interview that he was unaware that his voice been dubbed with that of James Earl Jones' until he saw the movie Star Wars (1977) on opening night.
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He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Millennium Honours List for his services to charity and road safety.
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Attended Bristol Grammar School, Bristol, England, UK. Actors Julian Glover and Timothy West were in the same year there.
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Said that of all the directors he worked with while making the Star Wars trilogy Irvin Kershner, who directed Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), was his favorite. David praised Irvin Kershner in an interview for being very helpful and supportive of the actors.
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When Sebastian Shaw was revealed in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) as the "man behind Darth Vader's mask", Darth Vader became the first recurring role in a movie series to be played by three actors at the same time: body by Prowse, voice by James Earl Jones and face by Sebastian Shaw.
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He was barred from doing the light-saber duels in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) because he kept breaking the poles that stood in for the laser blades during the first film. The light-saber duels in the sequels were instead done by Bob Anderson, the sword-master who handled the light-saber choreography; in order to make up for the height difference, Bob Anderson wore platform shoes and was often filmed from low angles.
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Three clips are available on the Star Wars making of documentary DVD of Prowse speaking Darth Vader's lines.
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His performance as Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" trilogy is ranked #84 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
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Despite the fame of Darth Vader, Prowse says that the role he is most proud of is the Green Cross Code Man.
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Before he entered films, he was a hard working apprentice engineer at BOAC in Bristol.
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Trained Christopher Reeve for his role in the first Superman (1978) movie.
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Appeared as a strongman in the famous "Wishing Well" sketch from the first season of "The Benny Hill Show" (1969), which was used by the show's American syndicator to pitch the program to U.S. TV stations.
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Because of his loftiness, George Lucas hired him to occupy the costume of Darth Vader in Star Wars (1977). But because of his British accent, Lucas chose James Earl Jones as the voice of Vader
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Once complained in an interview that he felt he "wasn't getting any publicity" for his work as Darth Vader.
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Attended the I Central American Star Wars (1977) Convention at Guatemala City, Guatemala, on 27-28 July 2002, to talk about his character ("Darth Vader") on the first Star Wars trilogy, along with Jeremy Bulloch ("Boba Fett").
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