2024-04-10 07:35:26
Text: Karla Castillo
At 85 years of age, David Prowse, the actor known for playing Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, passed away, and thus another famous person says goodbye in this terrible year 2020.
It was known due to an announcement by Thomas Bowington, his representative, who published a message on his Facebook page, where he hardly specified details of the cause of death.
Prowse played many monsters, as a weightlifting champion and due to his physical characteristics (almost two meters tall and 118 kilos) he worked in several Hammer B series horror productions, always hidden under a mask.
He was also well known in the United Kingdom for a road awareness campaign that taught children to cross the road and for which he received the Order of the British Empire in 2000.
He was a bodyguard in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and played Frankenstein several times under immense layers of makeup before he was chosen for the role of the villain of the Galaxy created by George Lucas.
That impressive physique earned him the role of Darth Vader in Star Wars in 1977 and in the other two films of the original trilogy, in which, with his breathing and way of moving, he gained worldwide fame without showing his face. .
The dilemma, which some consider the scam of a lifetime, came when at the time of the final cut George Lucas decided to do without his voice, and the actor did not know about this until the film was released.
With his voice or not, the Sith Lord became famous thanks to his performance and this is how all his fans say goodbye to him, with a “May the force be with you, always.”