Celebrity Biographies
Alfie Curtis
When in “Star Wars” Luke Skywalker walks into the Mos Eisley cantina accompanying Obi-Wan Kenobi, he is snarled at by Ponda Baba, an apparently intoxicated thug-like creature.
“He doesn’t like you,” the fellow farmer of this being, Dr. Cornelius Evazan, a human with a disfigured face, informs the young farmer. “I am sorry”. “I don’t like you either.” Despite Luke’s best efforts to avoid a conflict, Ponda Baba attacks him, forcing Kenobi to sever his arm with his lightsaber.
Now Alfie Curtis, the actor who played Evazan, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 87. His co-star Mark Hamill wanted to remember him on his Twitter account, stating that he “made one of the best scenes memorable” in which he had taken part. “He was just as scary in front of the camera as he was funny, affable and chivalrous behind. Thank you Alf, I will miss you.
Born on July 28, 1930, in Stepney, London, Alfie Curtis had appeared in a couple of British television series, before appearing in Star Wars . He then continued to be very active on the small screen and played the Milk Man, one of the attractions in the freak show featuring the protagonist of David Lynch ‘s The Elephant Man . Shortly after he left the interpretation.