RIP Porkins

[JMK]

http://www.whatsonstage.com/dl/page.php?page=greenroom&story=E8821130151838

The fat dude's gone! :cry

And to go from Pancreatic cancer. The fat guy never had a chance.

[Darth McBain]

Darn man... He was one of the great really minor characters. Even if you didn't know him as Porkins, everyone knows the fat guy who blew up for no apparent reason in the Death Star run... It's a shame, he was actually in a lot of movies - I always liked him in Raiders of the Lost Ark as well (another bit part). He'll be missed.

RIP

[Lilaena De'Ville]

“I still didn't realise what power would come from that job until a year later I received my first fan letter. In it was a drawing of my scene by a little boy, and it was actually a clearer and more understandable version of the scene than George Lucas'! ooh a jab! :D

He will be missed, but it looks like he had a good life, although short. :)

[JMK]

Ouch, that is a nice burn.

[Jedieb]

Good bye you magnificent fat bastard! :cry

[Rutabaga]

Not Porkins, NNNOOOOOoooo!!!! :cry

RIP, we love you, big guy! :)

[Anbira Hicchoru]

I wonder if his coffin will explode prematurely before being interred?

[Jedieb]

:lol

[S'shuuur]

His first film role was in 1977, playing Jedi fighter Jek Porkins in George Lucas' Star Wars.

Porkins was a Jedi? Guess Vader must have overlooked those Jedi who were in direct opposition to him, and constantly under his nose...

[JMK]

I noticed that too. Seems some people don't know squat about SW lore. Idiots. All of them.