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
opportunity government safety
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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But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.
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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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As a director he was not that interested in Vader.
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Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.
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I suppose the most fun I had was on the second 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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My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
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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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Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.
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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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Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.
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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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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.