![]() ![]() He also provided the voice for the character on set, but Lucas and the other cast and crew - who nicknamed him "Darth Farmer" - decided his strong West Country accent was not suitable for the imposing role of Vader. Prowse was clad in the iconic black armour in this role. Prowse was cast in the role of Darth Vader in Star Wars (1977) by George Lucas, who remembered his imposing stature from A Clockwork Orange. He was continue in this role in different TV and poster campaigns for the next twenty years. In 1975 Prowse appeared as UK children's road safety warden - a "lollipop man" - in a road safety campaign for the Green Cross Code. In 1971 he was cast as Julian in the film A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick.Īdditional roles followed on TV and film, with Prowse appearing in Carry On Henry (1971), part of British cinema's most successful comedy franchise, as well as long-running science fiction series Doctor Who (in 1973, playing a minotaur in the serial The Time Monster). He reprised the role of Frankenstein's Monster in The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974). He made his screen debut in the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale, appearing as Frankenstein's Monster in a hallucination sequence. Prowse's imposing size and public profile as a sportsman caught the attention of casting directors. He represented England in the Commonwealth Games in 1962. He took up bodybuilding as a hobby and became the British Heavyweight Weightlifting Champion from 1962 to 1964. Due to his unusual height (6 ft 6), he secured a job as a bouncer at a dance hall in the 1950s. Born in Bristol in 1935, Prowse attended Bristol Grammar School.
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