Peter Mayhew

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Peter Mayhew was born on May 19, 1944 in Barnes, London, England, to Constance Elizabeth (Yeates) and Walter Henry Mayhew. Later resident in Texas, this former resident of Yorkshire, England, was working as a hospital attendant at the King's College Hospital in London when film producer Charles H. Schneer saw his photo, literally standing above the crowd around him. Schneer cast him in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), Ray Harryhausen's special effects film.A year later, he was offered another role. Mayhew was told it was for a big hairy beast. It was the role of Chewbacca, the faithful 200 year-old Wookiee in Star Wars (1977) and his life was changed forever. Following the original Star Wars trilogy, he made several television commercials in the Wookiee costume.In 1997, the 20th-anniversary celebrations of Star Wars were announced with the release of the "Special Edition" and all the conventions started. He was active on the "Star Wars" convention circuit where he signed autographs. He wrote two books, "Growing Up Giant" and "My Favorite Giant", and founded a non-profit 501(c)3 charity organization called "The Peter Mayhew Foundation". - IMDb Mini Biography By: Peter Mayhew (updated by Robert Sieger)

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Peter Mayhew on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1987 to 2016. See the full graphs of the number of Peter Mayhew movies released per year from 1987 till 2016.

Top Genres

Peter Mayhew works mostly in Documentary Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 60% of Peter Mayhew movies are Documentary Genre movies. See Top Genres that Peter Mayhew worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Peter Mayhew has worked on is 6.7.

6.7 / 10

Peter Mayhew's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Horror
Killer Ink (2016)

When a close friend goes missing, Gage, a tattoo artist moonlighting as a serial killer, must hunt a second killer he fears may have had something to do with his mother's death 25 years ago.

5.6/1092 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Documentary
Jedi Junkies (2010)

A film about the world's most dedicated Star Wars fans. From lightsaber wielding martial arts academies to a filmmaker who built the world's only life-size Millennium Falcon, from a Monster...

5.3/1075 min

Available in 5 platform(s).