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Original Trilogy
The original ''Star Wars'' trilogy, formerly marketed as the ''Star Wars'' Trilogy (and colloquially referred to as the 'original trilogy' or classic trilogy), is the first set of three films produced in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, an American space opera created by George Lucas. It was produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by 20th Century Fox, and consists of ''Star Wars'' (1977), ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) and ''Return of the Jedi'' (1983). Beginning '' in medias res'', the original trilogy serves as the second act of the nine-episode Skywalker Saga. It was followed by a prequel trilogy between 1999 and 2005, and a sequel trilogy between 2015 and 2019. Collectively, they are referred to as the "Skywalker Saga" to distinguish them from films set within the same universe. The films center on the Galactic Civil War between the Rebel Alliance and the tyrannical Galactic Empire, as well as the archetypical hero's journey of Luke Skywalker in his quest to become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Wars 1977 Us
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by Self-gravitation, self-gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night sky, night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed stars, fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterism (astronomy), asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. The observable universe contains an estimated to stars. Only about 4,000 of these stars are visible to the naked eye—all within the Milky Way galaxy. A star's life star formation, begins with the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material largely comprising hydrogen, helium, and traces of heavier elements. Its stellar mass, total mass mainly determines it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Prowse
David Charles Prowse (1 July 1935 – 28 November 2020) was an English actor, bodybuilder, strongman and weightlifter. He portrayed Darth Vader in the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy and a manservant in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film '' A Clockwork Orange''. In 2015, he starred in two documentaries concerning his Darth Vader role, one titled ''The Force's Mouth'', which included Prowse voicing Darth Vader's lines with studio effects applied for the first time, and the other titled '' I Am Your Father'', covering the subject of the fallout between Prowse and Lucasfilm. Prior to his role as Vader, Prowse had established himself as a super-hero figure in the United Kingdom as the Green Cross Man in Green Cross Code media aimed at teaching children and young people road safety. Early life David Charles Prowse was born on 1 July 1935 in Bristol, England. He was the son of Gladys (''née'' Burt) and Charles Prowse. He was brought up on the Southmead housing estate in Bristol, gaining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duwayne Dunham
Duwayne Robert Dunham (born November 17, 1952) is an American director and editor of film and television, as well as an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is best known for his collaborations with George Lucas and David Lynch, serving as editor on ''Return of the Jedi'' and '' Blue Velvet''. After being hired for Lynch's series ''Twin Peaks'', he was promoted to director and made his debut with the second episode of the series. He subsequently directed the films '' Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey'' and ''Little Giants'', and numerous television films for the Disney Channel including '' Halloweentown'', ''The Thirteenth Year'', '' Ready to Run'', '' Right on Track'', and '' Tiger Cruise''. In 2018, he reunited with Lynch to edit all 18 episodes of the '' Twin Peaks: The Return'' revival series. During the 1978 San Anselmo Country Fair in San Anselmo, California, Dunham became the first person to portray ''Star Wars'' bounty hunter Boba Fett in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Chew
Richard Franklin Chew (born June 28, 1940) is an American film editor, best known for his Academy Award-winning work on ''Star Wars'' (1977), alongside Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas. Other notable films include '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975), '' Risky Business'' (1983), '' Waiting to Exhale'' (1995), '' That Thing You Do!'' (1996), and '' I Am Sam'' (2001). His career over a variety of films spans more than four decades. Early life and career Born of Chinese immigrant parents in Los Angeles, Chew attended its inner-city schools, served in the U.S. Navy, and graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Philosophy. After a stint at Harvard Law School, Chew, inspired by the independent cinema of the 1960s, left school to pursue a film career. Starting with camera and editing work on documentaries, such as '' The Redwoods'', an Oscar winner for Best Short Documentary in 1967, he eventually transitioned to editing feature films as co-editor on Francis Ford Coppola's ''The Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hirsch (film Editor)
Paul Frederick Hirsch (born November 14, 1945) is an American film editor with over 40 film credits since 1970, best known as one of the premier filmmakers to come out of the New Hollywood movement, collaborating with directors like Brian De Palma, George Lucas, George A. Romero, and Herbert Ross. He won an Academy Award and Saturn Award for his work on the original ''Star Wars'', which he shared with Richard Chew and Marcia Lucas. Life and career Hirsch is a native of New York City, and the son of painter Joseph Hirsch. His father was of German-Jewish descent.Paul CummingsOral History Interview with Joseph Hirsh (Archives of American Art, November 13 & December 2, 1970). After graduating from Columbia in 1966, he began to pursue a career in editing. In the late 1960s, while editing trailers in NYC, he was introduced by his brother, Charles, to then unknown filmmaker Brian De Palma. Their collaboration has yielded eleven feature films. John Castagno, ''Jewish Artists: Signa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcia Lucas
Marcia Lou Lucas (née Griffin; born October 4, 1945) * * is an American film editor. She is best known for her work editing the ''Star Wars'' trilogy (1977–1983) as well as other films by her then-husband George Lucas: '' THX 1138'' (1971) and ''American Graffiti'' (1973). She also edited Martin Scorsese's '' Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' (1974), ''Taxi Driver'' (1976), and ''New York, New York'' (1977). Lucas won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for ''Star Wars'' (1977). She was previously nominated for an Academy Award for her film editing on ''American Graffiti'' and for a BAFTA Award for Best Editing for her work on ''Taxi Driver''. After a career gap while raising her family, Lucas produced two films in the 1990s. Early life Marcia Lou Griffin was born in Modesto, California. Her father was an Air Force officer stationed in Stockton, California, during World War II. Her parents divorced when she was two. Her mother, Mae Griffin, relocated the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Hume
Alan Hume, (16 October 1924 – 13 July 2010) was an English cinematographer. Life and career Hume arrived at Denham Film Studios in 1942, and worked for Cineguild Productions during the late 1940s. His early credits, prior to being called up to the Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War, included ''Oliver'' and ''The First of the Few'' (1942). Post-war, he served as a camera operator for ''Great Expectations'' (1946), '' Madeleine'' (1950) and ''The End of the Affair'' (1955). During the 1960s, he was director of photography for the successful '' Carry On'' comedy films, beginning with 1961's ''Carry On Regardless''; eventually, Hume alternated with Ernest Steward in the position of the series' regular director of photography. Hume's other cinematographic work during the 1960s included the horror films ''The Kiss of the Vampire'' (1962, for Hammer Films) and ''Dr. Terror's House of Horrors'' (1965, for Amicus Productions). Among his later films were '' Chec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Suschitzky
Peter Suschitzky, A.S.C. (born 25 July 1941) is a British cinematographer and photographer. Among his most known works as director of photography are ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'', ''The Empire Strikes Back,'' and ''Mars Attacks!'' and many of David Cronenberg's films. Suschitzky has been the recipient of four Genie Awards for Best Achievement in Cinematography, and a David di Donatello Award for Best Cinematography. He is featured in the book Conversations with Cinematographers, published by Scarecrow Press. In 2015 he was selected to be a member of the jury for the Critics' Week section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Life and career Suschitzky was born in London, England, the son of BAFTA Award-nominated cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky. His father was an Austrian of Jewish descent. Although music was his passion, he chose to pursue a career in cinematography while studying at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris, France. He became a clap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Taylor
Gilbert Taylor, B.S.C. (12 April 1914 – 23 August 2013) was a British cinematographer. He was best known for his work in films like '' Dr. Strangelove'', ''The Omen'', and ''Star Wars'', having collaborated with directors like Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Mike Hodges. He was nominated for two BAFTA Awards, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Society of Cinematographers. Early life The son of a Hertfordshire builder, Taylor grew up in Bushey Heath. A paternal uncle was a newsreel cameraman and contact with him from the age of ten gave Taylor early experience of working with cameras and developing film stock. As a teenager, he studied architecture before deciding to pursue a career in film. While his father disapproved of the film industry, populated he thought by "harridans, whores and gypsies", it was his mother who consented to their son's altered career plans. A neighbour offered Taylor, aged 15, a job as a camera assistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (November 15, 2022)Classic Connection review, ''WBOI'' ("For the second time this year, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic honored American composer, conductor, and arranger John Williams, who was born on February 8, 1932.")(April 23, 2022)From Jaws to Star Wars, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra celebrates John Williams, CTV News is an American composer and conductor. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in History of film, cinema history. He has a distinct sound that mixes Romantic music, romanticism, Impressionism in music, impressionism and Atonality, atonal music with complex orchestration. He is best known for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and has received List of awards and nominations received by John Williams, numerous accolades including 26 Grammy Awards, Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, seven Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid ( ; born 11 August 1944) is a Scottish actor and director of stage and screen. Making his stage debut in ''Hamlet'' in 1972, McDiarmid joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974, and has since starred in a number of Shakespeare's plays. He has received an Olivier Award for Best Actor for '' Insignificance'' (1982) and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for '' Faith Healer'' (2006). He gained prominence for portraying Palpatine in the ''Star Wars'' franchise starting from '' Return of the Jedi'' (1983). He also acted in '' Gorky Park'' (1983), '' Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'' (1988), '' Restoration'' (1995), '' Sleepy Hollow'' (1999), and '' The Lost City of Z'' (2016). Early life McDiarmid was born in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland, on 11 August 1944. He became a theatre aficionado when he was five years old, when his father took him to see an act named Tommy Morgan at a theatre in Dundee. In 2004, he stated, "It sort of fascinated me, and it also scared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Oz
Frank Richard Oznowicz (born May 25, 1944), known professionally as Frank Oz, is an American puppeteer, filmmaker and actor. He is best known for his involvement with Jim Henson and George Lucas through ''The Muppets'', ''Sesame Street'', and ''Star Wars'', as well as his directorial work in feature films and theater. The son of puppeteers, Oz worked as an apprentice puppeteer during his teenage years in Oakland, California. Despite his interest in journalism, he continued his career as a puppeteer when he was hired by The Jim Henson Company in 1963, going on to perform several television characters such as Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal (Muppet), Animal, and Sam Eagle on ''The Muppet Show'' (1976–1981) and Cookie Monster, Bert (Sesame Street), Bert, and Grover on ''Sesame Street'' (1969–2013). He was hired by Lucas to perform as Yoda in the ''Star Wars'' film series, beginning with ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) and reprising the role in List of Star Wars films#Skywalke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
