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David Prowse

1935 - 2020

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Prowse is the 210th most popular actor (up from 1,220th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,293rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Actor.

David Prowse is most famous for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy.

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Among actors, David Prowse ranks 210 out of 13,578. Before him are Alec Guinness, Ornella Muti, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Sidney Poitier, and Anita Ekberg. After him are Faye Dunaway, John Saxon, Fred Astaire, Eddie Fisher, Silvana Mangano, and Gene Kelly.

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Among people born in 1935, David Prowse ranks 21. Before him are Faisal II of Iraq, Arvo Pärt, Isao Takahata, Julie Andrews, Michel Aoun, and Theo Angelopoulos. After him are John Saxon, Ágota Kristóf, Erich von Däniken, David Harvey, Françoise Sagan, and Omar Sívori. Among people deceased in 2020, David Prowse ranks 14. Before him are Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Pierre Cardin, Max von Sydow, and Tabaré Vázquez. After him are John Saxon, Katherine Johnson, Paolo Rossi, Olivia de Havilland, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Albert Uderzo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Prowse ranks 388 out of 8,785. Before him are William Wordsworth (1770), James George Frazer (1854), Saint Walpurga (710), Clement Attlee (1883), Francis Galton (1822), and Frederic Leighton (1830). After him are Graham Greene (1904), Richard Henderson (1945), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), William Hogarth (1697), and Alcuin (735).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, David Prowse ranks 34. Before him are Laurence Olivier (1907), Peter O'Toole (1932), Peter Ustinov (1921), Peter Mayhew (1944), Olivia Newton-John (1948), and Alec Guinness (1914). After him are Daniel Day-Lewis (1957), Gary Oldman (1958), Claude Rains (1889), John Hurt (1940), Vanessa Redgrave (1937), and Timothy Dalton (1946).

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