He let Darth Vader's lightsaber circle and taught Zorro to fencing - now the British sword master and Olympian Bon Anderson has died at the age of 89.
The British fencer Bob Anderson is dead. He became known through the Star Wars films, because when the villain Darth Vader swung his lightsaber, the Brit was behind the black mask. The former Olympic fencer died in his home country at the age of 89, according to the British Fencing Association. Anderson, who died in an English hospital on New Year's morning, wielded Darth Vader's lightsaber in two of the three original films in the Star Wars franchise: Anderson in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi , who in the costume of the black-clad villain on the dark side of the force raised the laser against Luke Skywalker. Actually, the nearly two meter tall former weightlifter David Prowse embodied the villain, but he wasn't able to learn how to use the lightsaber delicately from Anderson. So Anderson, then almost 60 years old and much smaller than Prowse, had to climb into the black suit himself.
Although he was never credited as an actor, Anderson himself performed the fencing scenes of Darth Vader, actor Mark Hamill revealed in a 1983 interview. Anderson competed in the 1952 Olympic Games as a fencer for Great Britain before making a name for himself as a choreographer of fight scenes and doubles. This commitment was just one of many highlights in Anderson's long career. He taught numerous actors how to use sword and sword - from Erol Flynn to Antonio Banderas. For 50 years he was a swordsman, fight choreographer and stuntman. He also used his skills in the James Bond film "From Russia with Love", and he also worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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