Reports have emerged from the “Star Wars” community that Jeremy Bulloch, the actor who originated the iconic “Star Wars” bounty hunter Boba Fett in “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi,” has died. The retired English actor was 75. The news was first announced on fan site Fantha Tracks ***owing a Facebook post by U.K.-based convention organizer Jason Griffiths, a friend of Bulloch’s.
While Bulloch remains best known as the actor behind the suit in the second two films of the original trilogy, he also cameoed in other “Star Wars” properties, including in “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” as Captain Colton, a Clone Wars era pilot with a long record of service in the Royal House of Alderaan. The actor got his start on TV shows, such as “Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School” and “The Newcomers,” and though he wore the original Boba Fett costume — giving the bounty hunter an eerie stillness that implied more menace than was ever actually demonstrated on screen — his role was voiced by Jason Wingreen originally. Fett was the first Mandalorian character introduced in the saga, and the idea that you might not often see under his helmet comes from him. (In the updated versions of the original films, Wingreen was dubbed over by Temuera Morrison, who now plays Boba Fett on Disney+’s “The Mandalorian” series.)
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