David Prowse
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David Prowse, MBE (birth July 1, 1935 in Bristol, England) is a body-builder and weightlifter from the United Kingdom.
Outside the UK, he is most famous for playing the role of Darth Vader in the Star Wars epic, although James Earl Jones was dubbed over as Vader's voice. However, within the UK he is perhaps as well known as "Green Cross Code Man" as a result of his association with the Green Cross Code road safety campaign for children which ran between 1976 and 1990 and for which he received the MBE in 2000.
He had a role as a bodyguard in the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. He played the Minotaur on in the 1972 Doctor Who serial The Time Monster, and had a small role as Hotblack Desiato's bodyguard in the 1981 BBC TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
In the final Star Wars film, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Hayden Christensen wore the Darth Vader armor in Prowse's place.
Prowse is six-foot-seven (2 m) in height and married with three children. He helped train Christopher Reeve for the role of Superman.