Peter Mayhew

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Peter Mayhew (May 19, 1944 – April 30, 2019) was a British-American actor, best known for playing Chewbacca in the Star Wars films. Mayhew was born on 19 May 1944 in Barnes, Surrey, where he was also raised. His height was a product not of gigantism — "I don't have the big head" — but of an overactive pituitary gland secondary to a genetic disease called Marfan Syndrome. The overactive pituitary gland was treated successfully in his mid-teens. His peak height was 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m)

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Peter Mayhew

Chewbacca

for Chewbacca in Episode VII

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Episode VII

It is a time of peace. For thirty years, the NEW REPUBLIC has kept the galaxy free of tyranny from the once mighty GALACTIC EMPIRE. However, Imperial remnants have survived, remaining loyal to the fallen regime. Continously terrorizing local star systems, they have reunited for the first time since the Empire's fall, under the leadership of a mysterious yet familiar threat. With the Republic's vulnerability showing, CHANCELLOR LEIA ORGANA has sent a secret squadron to the world of JAKKU, where an old ally may have some key information about the Empire's return. . .

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