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. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Prowse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2006Open Mic'rs — David Prowse
• 2004Comic Book: The Movie — David Prowse
• 2004The Story of Star Wars — Darth Vader (archive footage)
• 1991Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook — The Monster (archive footage)
• Crossbow
• 1983Return of the Jedi — Darth Vader
• 1981The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy — Bodyguard
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Bodyguard
• The Rose Medallion — Stanley
• 1980The Empire Strikes Back — Darth Vader
• 1978As You Like It — Charles the Wrestler
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Charles
• 1978The Star Wars Holiday Special — Darth Vader
• 1977Gulliver's Travels — (voice) (uncredited)
• 1977Jabberwocky — Red Herring / Black Knight
• 1977Star Wars — Darth Vader (performer)
• 1977The Making of Star Wars — Darth Vader (uncredited)
• 1977The People That Time Forgot — Executioner (uncredited)
• 1975Confessions of a Pop Performer — Driving Instructor
• Space: 1999 — Cloud Creature
• 1974Callan — Arthur
• Churchill's People — Hnaudifida
• 1974Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell — Monster
• 1973Black Snake — Jonathan Walker
• Warship
• 1973White Cargo — Harry
• Arthur of the Britons
• 1972Doctor Who: The Time Monster — Minotaur
• 1972Up the Chastity Belt — Sir Grumbel
• 1972Vampire Circus — Strongman
• 1971A Clockwork Orange — Julian
• 1971Carry On Henry — Bearded Torturer
• 1971Up Pompeii — Muscular Man (uncredited)
• Ace of Wands — Kal
• Codename — Bodyguard
• From a Bird's Eye View — First Vespucci
• 1970The Horror of Frankenstein — The Monster
• 1969Crossplot — Wedding Guest
• Department S — Adolfo
• Hark at Barker
• 1968Hammerhead — George
• The Champions — Weightlifter
• Boy Meets Girl — Boy
• Callan
• 1967Casino Royale — Frankenstein's Creature (uncredited)
• 1967Deadly Sweet — Jelly-Roll's Partner (uncredited)
• Softly, Softly
• The Wednesday Play — Mooney
• Doctor Who — Minotaur
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• The Saint — Tony

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2015Elstree 1976 — Self
• 2015I Am Your Father — Himself
• 2015Star Wars at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2010The Bloodiest Show on Earth: Making Vampire Circus — Self
• 2008Legend of Hammer: Vampires — Self
• 2006You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman — Self
• 2005Collectormania 7 — Self
• 2004Saving Star Wars — Self
• 1999The Unauthorized Star Wars Story — Self
• 1994Return of the Ewok — Self / Darth Vader
• The World of Hammer — Self (archive footage)
• 1993Zombie Jamboree ‘93 — Himself (uncredited)