There’s “Ginger” Baker, so-called for the way people acted around him, walking on eggshells to avoid his infamously volatile temper. (You’ve got to be some kind of jerk to be known as “the difficult one” in a band with a cokehead who once threw his own son out a window in...
The Major Role:George Lucas hired Jake Lloyd to play young Anakin Skywalker (the future Darth Vader) in the first installment of his long-anticipated prequel trilogy. Lloyd was just 9 years old when he took on the origin story of perhaps the most celebrated villain in f...
The Major Role:George Lucas hired Jake Lloyd to play young Anakin Skywalker (the future Darth Vader) in the first installment of his long-anticipated prequel trilogy. Lloyd was just 9 years old when he took on the origin story of perhaps the most celebrated villain in ...
“No, I am your father!” While it is the voice of Darth Vader thatJames Earl Jonesis best known for, Jones isconsidered one of the greatest stage and screen actors in the USand internationally. Jones got his big-screen break as Lieutenant Lothar Zogg in theStanley KubrickclassicDr. Stran...
The Minotaur idea and its attack scene is not good but it looks pretty OK for the day and is played by Darth Vader actor Dave Prowse before he became known in Star Wars so that is kind of fun.Taken as a whole this is clearly the weakest Pertwee era story but has quite a bit of ...
He also acted in blackface — a darker black than the café-au-lait tones that had become customary for white Othellos since the early 1800s. Olivier was meticulous about the make-up that would transform him into the Moor. ‘The whole thing will be in...
Way before James Earl Jones took on the iconic voice roles of Darth Vader and Mufasa, he appeared on two soaps in the 1960s: Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Coincidentally, Jones portrayed a doctor on both of the shows: Dr. Jim Frazier on the former and Dr. Jerry Turner on the...
It’s not easy to take on the role of Anakin Skywalker at eight years old. Lloyd had big shoes to fill inStar Wars: The Phantom Menace, playing the kid-version of a character who would later become the villainous Darth Vader. But while hisStar Warscredit should have made him popular wi...
There are also classic soaps like Ryan's Hope, The Doctors, Search for Tomorrow, and Santa Barbara that gave various actors and actresses their first big break. Here's some trivia for you: the actors who went on to play Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Superman, Buffy...
The Major Role: George Lucas hired Jake Lloyd to play young Anakin Skywalker (the future Darth Vader) in the first installment of his long-anticipated prequel trilogy. Lloyd was just 9 years old when he took on the origin story of perhaps the most celebrated villain in ...