# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-prowse
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:18:54.163Z

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name: "David Prowse"
slug: "david-prowse"
description: "He was the body inside Darth Vader's armor across the original Star Wars trilogy — the physical menace, the looming silhouette — but not the voice. That severance became the subject of two documentaries in 2015, one finally letting him speak Vader's lines with effects."
tagline: "English bodybuilder, weightlifter, and actor (1935–2020)"
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deathDate: "2020-11-28"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  David Charles Prowse was born 1 July 1935 in England and built his frame as a bodybuilder, strongman, and weightlifter. Before Star Wars, he became a fixture to British children as the Green Cross Man, a superhero figure teaching road safety in public media campaigns. Stanley Kubrick cast him as a manservant in A Clockwork Orange in 1971. Then came the role that defined him: the physical form of Darth Vader in the original trilogy, though the voice was never his. The rift with Lucasfilm over that separation deepened over decades, eventually spawning two documentaries in 2015 — The Force's Mouth, where he finally voiced Vader's lines with studio effects, and I Am Your Father, chronicling the fallout. He died 28 November 2020.