Celebrity Biographies
Kenny Baker
Kenny Baker passed away on August 13, 2016, at the age of 81, his family confirmed in a statement. The British actor, 1.12 meters tall and born in Birmingham, had long suffered from a lung disease.
Born in Birmingham on August 24, 1934, he first appeared on screen with a small role in Circus of Horrors (1960), where he did not even appear in the credits. 17 years later, George Lucas recruited him to get inside R2-D2, the little android from Star Wars . He reprized the same role in the sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi .
In addition, he participated in titles such as The Elephant Man , Flash Gordon , Amadeus and Mona Lisa . Lucas called him back for the tapes he produced Inside the Labyrinth and Willow . In the late 1990s, he returned to repeat as the whistling android in The Phantom Menace , and later in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith . He played him for the last time in Star Wars: The Force Awakens , directed by JJ Abrams . , which premiered on December 16, and was his last work for the big screen.