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Kenny Baker, the man who gave life to R2D2 in Star Wars<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mr Baker, who stood just over 3 feet tall, was regularly cast as a dwarf or tiny person in films where required, including David Lynch’s The Elephant Man<\/em>, the musical film Amadeus, Time Bandits, Labyrinth,<\/em> and in an uncredited role in Ron Howard’s Willow<\/em>. But it was his recurring role of R2D2, in the seven film Star Wars<\/em> saga, for which he’s best known.<\/p>\n Baker was famously cast as Wicket in the third Star Wars<\/em> film, Return of The Jedi<\/em>, but was unable to perform the part after falling ill, resulting in Warwick Davis scoring the role. Baker, who played R2D2 in each Star Wars<\/em> film, was a consultant on The Force Awakens,<\/em> had also had a brief career in stand-up comedy, prior to his work on Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n Following an extended illness, Kenny Baker passed away on August 13th. He was 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kenny Baker, the man who gave life to R2D2 in Star Wars, has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":43658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm.jpg",807,561,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm-300x209.jpg",300,209,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm-768x534.jpg",640,445,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm-720x501.jpg",640,445,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm.jpg",807,561,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm.jpg",807,561,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm.jpg",807,561,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm.jpg",489,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm.jpg",24,17,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm.jpg",48,33,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm.jpg",96,67,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm.jpg",150,104,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm.jpg",300,209,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/screen-shot-2016-08-13-at-12-13-12-pm-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}