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David Dave Prowse, the actor best known for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died aged 85, his agent has said.

Agent Thomas Bowington said: It is with great regret and heartbreaking sadness for us and millions of fans around the world to announce that our client Dave Prowse MBE has passed away at the age of 85.

Jason Joiner, an event producer who worked with Prowse, announced the death on a Facebook page dedicated to the actor, adding: Dave was dedicated to meeting fans for decades and a lot of the first time fans they met was Dave in the early days of Comic Cons and Collator events. Dave was larger than life and will be sadly missed. Our love and thoughts are with his family.

Prowse was a former bodybuilder who had a string of monster and villain roles before being invited by George Lucas to audition for the roles of Vader and Chewbacca. He chose Vader and when asked why, he replied: Everyone remembers the villain.

Dave Prowse, left, with fellow Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca.
David Prowse, right, with fellow Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca, in 1999. Photograph: REX / Shutterstock

Born in Bristol in 1935, Prowse was, according to IMDB, raised by his mother and never knew his father. He developed a passion for bodybuilding and bodybuilding in his early teens and competed in Mr Universe competitions, where he befriended Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. He also shredded phone books under the stage name Jack the Ripper.

He won the British Weightlifting Championship three times and was selected to represent England at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia.

Prowses’ first film was 1967 Casino Royale, where he played Frankensteins Monster. Although the cast was based on Prowses’ stature, he developed a strong interest in the theater and decided to pursue it. His resume included roles in A Clockwork Orange and numerous Hammer Horror films, and he was the personal trainer who prepared Christopher Reeve for the role of Superman in 1978.

Prowse was in the Vader costume for much of the Sith Lords’ screen time and even had a reputation for speaking his lines on set, though his western country tones were dubbed with those of the American actor James Earl Jones in post-production, and plenty of fight scenes starring British Olympic shooter Bob Anderson.

Prowse as Green Cross Man in a 1970s road safety campaign
Prowse as the Green Cross Man in a 1970s road safety campaign. Photograph: Evening Standard / Getty Images

To add insult to injury, when Vaders’ face was finally shown to the public as he died in 1983’s Return of the Jedi, producer George Lucas chose to play British actor Sebastian Shaw instead.

Prowse and Lucas then fell out, which led to Prowse being banned from official Star Wars activities in 2010.

Despite the fame he gained as Vader, Prowse said he was very proud of his role as Green Cross Man in a long UK road safety campaign, for which he was awarded and MBE in 2000.

In a column for The Guardian in 2014, Prowse wrote: A lot of people will know me for being the ultimate screen villain, Star Wars Darth Vader. But being a goodie and leading the Green Cross Code campaign, helping to save thousands of lives has always been the ultimate honor.



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