He has long been the lost Bristolian voice of the classic Star Wars movies. The Southmead lad David Prowse who played the evil emperor Darth Vader, but whose words were overdubbed after filming by deep-voiced American star James Earl Jones.
So generations of Star Wars fans might well not have known what the giant of a man playing the black-cloaked baddie sounded like when he was ordering the Storm Troopers around his ship, or threatening Princess Leia - apparently until now.
For a Twitter account that shares classic movie scenes has now released a series of little clips that claim to be the original footage shot by George Lucas of the first Star Wars movie, complete with the sound of David Prowse saying the lines that were later read with a bit more of an evil baritone by James Earl Jones.
