His other memorable roles include newsman Mike Wallace in 'The Insider', a Klingon general in 'Star Trek: VI: The Undiscovered Country' and the evil explorer Charles Muntz in 'Up'. He also portrayed Rudyard Kipling in 'The Man Who Would Be King' opposite Sean Connery and Michael Caine and Sherlock Holmes in 'Murder by Decree'.
Film Guru Lad - Film Reviews
Watch this blog site for film reviews whether blockbusters, box office bombs or highly obscure. Our genre will include science-fiction, animation, music docs, action movies and comedy.
Monday, February 8, 2021
In Memory of Christopher Plummer (1929-2021)
Monday, January 25, 2021
Wonder Woman 1984 Review
Friday, January 1, 2021
Klaus Review
A story tells the origins of Christmas. Jesper, a disgraced student of the Postal Academy, gets sent to a desolate frozen island where no one sends any letters. He is stuck in a hostile environment but finds redemption upon meeting a lonely carpenter named Klaus, who gives Jesper a purpose
Creative Consultant/Story
Creative Consultants - Steven
Head of Story - Edgar Martins
Production Designers - Szymon Biernacki and Marcin Jakubowski
Lead Character Designer -
Character Designer - Daniel Fernandez Casas
Animation Supervisor: "Krums & Ellingboes" - Charlie Bonifacio
Animation Supervisor: "Klaus" - Victor Ens
Animation Supervisor: "Alva" -
Animation Supervisor: "Margu" -
Animation Supervisor: "Jesper" -
Background Supervisor - Gabriel Gomez
3D Animation Supervisor - David Lamas
CG Supervisors - Fernando Jareigo and Gabriel G. Roy
Film Editor - Pablo Garcia Revert
Music - Alfonso G. Aguilar
Sunday, December 20, 2020
The War with Grandpa Review
Friday, December 18, 2020
In Memory of Jeremy Bulloch (1945-2020)
Monday, November 30, 2020
In Memory of David Prowse (1935-2020)
David Prowse (1935-2020)
To all millions of Star Wars fans around the world, it is with deep sorrow that I regret to inform you that the former British bodybuilder/actor David Prowse, the man who embodies the iconic villain Darth Vader in the original 'Star Wars' trilogy has passed away after a short illness on November 28th 2020, he was 85 years old.
While James Earl Jones is known to have provided the voice of Vader, it was Prowse's imposing six-foot and six-inch physical stature that suits him in playing the Sith Lord who is formerly known as Anakin Skywalker.
He began as a bodybuilder and has competed in the Commonwealth Games in Great Britain in 1962 for which he won the British heavyweight weightlifting championship. After doing competitive weightlifting for several years, Prowse got his first screen role (albeit uncredited) in the 1967 James Bond spoof 'Casino Royale' where he played Frankenstein's Monster. The role that David would later reprise again in two Hammer films in the early 1970s like 'Horror of Frankenstein' and 'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell'.
Prowse was the center of attention for an up-and-coming filmmaker named George Lucas who has seen him in his small role as a bodyguard in Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' that he asked David to audition in either the role of the oversized Wookie Chewbacca or Darth Vader in his original 1977 sci-fi movie 'Star Wars'. However, Prowse opted for the latter while the former went to Peter Mayhew and not knowing that the character would be masked. His voice for Vader was famously dubbed over by American actor James Earl Jones's booming voice when Prowse's West Country accent was deemed unsuitable for the character.
He returns as Vader in both 'The Empire Strikes Back' and 'Return of the Jedi'. although he is forced to share the suit with British Olympic fencer Bob Anderson who did much of the lightsaber duels when Prowse was unable to do it convincingly. Vader was finally unmasked at the end of 'Return of the Jedi' when it was British actor Sebastian Shaw that portrays the face of Anakin Skywalker. At one point in 1978, Prowse accidentally blurted out that Darth Vader was Luke's father which at that time claimed it was a lucky guess and it wasn't even revealed until 'The Empire Strikes Back' and it puts a strain on his relationship with George Lucas and his production company Lucasfilm. Prowse was a regular in several fan conventions but was officially barred in many Star Wars conventions because of his earlier controversies until ill-health forced him to retire in fan conventions in 2016.
Prowse was also featured in movies like 'Vampire Circus' and 'The People That Time Forgot' and TV shows including 'The Saint', 'Doctor Who', 'Space 1999' and 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. He also appeared in two of the Star Wars-related documentaries like 'Elstree 1976' and 'I Am Your Father' which details with his relationship of working in Star Wars.
All I can say is that Dave, wherever you are... you created one of the most iconic movie villains in history and you are now one with the Force.