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David Prowse
Known for: ActingDavid 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.
Filmography 16
Star Wars
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as Darth Vader (performer) 
The Empire Strikes Back
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as Darth Vader 
Return of the Jedi
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as Darth Vader 
The People That Time Forgot
as Executioner (uncredited) 
Jabberwocky
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as Red Herring / Black Knight 
Vampire Circus
as Strongman 
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
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as Monster 
The Horror of Frankenstein
as The Monster 
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
as Bodyguard 
Deadly Sweet
as Jelly-Roll's Partner (uncredited) 
Hammerhead
as George 
Comic Book: The Movie
as David Prowse 
Carry On Henry
as Bearded Torturer 
Elstree 1976
as Self
as Himself (uncredited) 
As You Like It
as Charles the Wrestler