Inside Darth Vader Actor David Prowse's Other Famous Character

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For a generation of Britons, the late actor was more than a 'Star Wars' villain, he was also the superhero who cared if you made it across the road safely.

To most audiences, the late David Prowse was the personification of evil — or, at least, the physical manifestation of it — thanks to what is easily his most famous role of all, Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy of movies. For a particular demographic, however, Prowse’s onscreen legacy is complicated by another role that was iconic to an entire generation of British children: the guardian of road safety known as the Green Cross Code Man.......

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