“He was a kind man and much more than just Darth Vader,” Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, said in response to the news of Prowse’s death.
But the role of the Dark Lord of the Sith was crucial in Dave Prows’ career. Despite being cursed by American actor James Earl Jones, director George Lucas did not like Prowse’s British accent. When he nodded at the film, he allegedly did not know about the persuasion of his character. In addition, in the last part of the original trilogy, when Darth Vader is unmasked, the face of another actor – Sebastian Shaw – appears.
