"I was just one of a team of 'extras' who worked on the Star Wars films. In 1980 I worked on The Empire strikes back and in 1983 on Return of the Jedi. There was a 'hard core' team of about 15 of us who worked continually on the films as different characters (mostly with masks or helmets on) who were then added to when were larger scenes such as the massed guard of honour on the Death Star. We spent most of our time running around the sets as Stormtroopers, stading guard at doors or following Darth Vader around. In addition to Stormtroopers and Rebel Soldiers I also played a number of 'masked' Aliens. I probably do not know the correct names for them, but one of them was Nimnine (Co-Pilot to Billy Dee Williams), another we called Fish Face and another called Three Eyes. I remember dancing with an Ewok in the Ewok village at the end of the film as Numnine in an orange flying suit. If an extra did not turn up for work you quite often changed costumes so in the end I probably played about six or eight different characters. In addition to the masked aliens I also played pilots which involved having small charges placed in the cockpits or in my helmet as we were supposedly being shot down. In The Empire striked back I was a Stormtrooper in a number of different costume veriations and als a rebel soldier. As I rode horses I was put in charge of a strange looking monster (I think it was called a Torn Torn?) that we rode about on. It looked a bit like a cross between T.Rex and a giant kangaroo!"
