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David cross weight1/4/2024 He played Charles, the duke's wrestler, in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of As You Like It in 1978. He appeared in the first series of Ace of Wands on LWT and as a bodyguard in Callan (1974), a feature film version of the TV series. Prowse had a small role as Hotblack Desiato's bodyguard in the 1981 BBC TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Prowse claimed that he nearly got the role of Jaws in James Bond (which ultimately went to Richard Kiel) and was offered the part of Conan the Barbarian before Arnold Schwarzenegger. Around that time, he appeared as the Black Knight in the Terry Gilliam film Jabberwocky (1977) and was supposed to play Minoton in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), but the part went to Peter Mayhew instead, who later played Chewbacca in Star Wars. He appeared in an episode of Space: 1999, " The Beta Cloud" (1976), right before he was cast as Darth Vader. He played a circus strongman in Vampire Circus (1972), a Minotaur in the Doctor Who serial The Time Monster (also 1972), and an android named Coppin in The Tomorrow People in 1973. He had a role as Frank Alexander's manservant, Julian, in the film A Clockwork Orange (1971), in which he was noticed by the future Star Wars director George Lucas. As a result of his association with the campaign, which ran between 19, he received the MBE in 2000. In the United Kingdom, Prowse was well known as the Green Cross Man, a superhero invented to promote a road safety campaign for children in 1975. His first appearance is a brief cameo in a gym as a weightlifter in the 1968 TV show The Champions: the opening sequence of episode 2 "The Invisible Man". Prowse as Julian holding Alex ( Malcolm McDowell) in A Clockwork Orange (1971) Prowse also became fitness consultant to Harrods, ripped up phone books under the stage name 'Jack the Ripper', and opened a series of gyms, including The Dave Prowse Fitness Centre in Southwark, London. He trained Cary Elwes for his role as Westley in The Princess Bride (1987). In a television interview, he related how his response to being told "we've found our Superman" was "Thank you very much." Only then was he told that Reeve had been chosen for the role and he was to only be a trainer. Prowse helped to train Christopher Reeve for the lead role in Superman (1978) after lobbying for the part himself. He represented England in the weightlifting event at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia. Prowse won the British heavyweight weightlifting championship in 1962 and the following two years. Following his successes from 1961 in the British heavyweight weightlifting championship, he left Bristol in 1963 to work for a London weightlifting company. His early jobs included a bouncer at a dance hall, where he met his future wife, and a helper at Henleaze Swimming Pool. Prowse was tall, standing 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), and developed an interest in bodybuilding. He was brought up on the Southmead housing estate in Bristol, gaining a scholarship to Bristol Grammar School. He is the son of Gladys ( née Burt) and Charles Prowse. Prowse was born in Bristol on 1 July 1935.
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