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Peter Mayhew

(1944–2019) Film Actor United States

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Peter Mayhew was a film actor from the United States, best known for All Saints.

Quick Facts About Peter Mayhew

Born: May 19, 1944
Died: April 30, 2019
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Actor
Notable works: All Saints

About Peter Mayhew

Peter William Mayhew was a British-American actor. He was best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series. He played the character in all of his live-action appearances from the 1977 original to 2015's The Force Awakens before his retirement from the role. He also voiced the character in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and portrayed him in some television shows, including The Muppet Show.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Peter Mayhew

A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete…

Buying

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I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because…

Character

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I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Character

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I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

Done

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Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

Cinema

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When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

Eight

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After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.

Favourite

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When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got…

Actor

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I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

I can

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George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.

Kids

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After a while, the character sort of took over.

After

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But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.

Apart

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They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

Alien

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With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.

Different

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I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know that we can't talk about, so I'm…

About

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With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.

Controlled

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This has been the best thing that ever happened to me.

Been

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I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

Battle

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Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

Actors

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George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

Character

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Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But…

Chess

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It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the…

Character

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