The Body (But Not the Face or the Voice) of Darth Vader

It took several men to create one man as intimidating as Darth Vader: Actor and bodybuilder David Prowse (above) formidably inhabited Vader’s mechanically augmented costume, while James Earl Jones provided his voice.

When we finally saw Darth Vader’s pale, badly scarred visage in Return of the Jedi, his face was that of yet another performer: Sebastian Lewis Shaw. And the young Vader would of course be played in the prequels by Hayden Christensen.