Anthony Daniels Biography and Filmography

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Carrie Fisher
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Sofia Coppola
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Rose Byrne
Beatrice Arthur
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Keisha
Mary Kay Bergman
Connie Booth
Grey DeLisle
Emma Samms

Anthony Daniels
Birthday: February 21, 1946
Birth Place: Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
Height: 5' 9"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Anthony Daniels. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

Biography

While British actor Anthony Daniels' face and name may not be immediately familiar to the moviegoing public, his primary film role most assuredly is: fussy aureate android C-3PO in the phenomenally popular Star Wars saga. Though acting was his passion, Daniels did not attempt to make it his career until his mid-twenties. After three years in drama school, Daniels won a job on BBC Radio and soon moved to theater, joining Britain's Young Vic Company. Daniels had been a professional thespian for only two years when he, despite initial reluctance, agreed to play C-3PO in George Lucas' record-breaking sci-fi fantasy Star Wars (1977). Paired with the bolder droid R2D2, C-3PO fretfully joined Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia in the old-fashioned battle against the evil Dark Side; his gold anthropomorphized machine body became a prominent symbol of Lucas' elaborately conceived cinematic universe. The blockbuster sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), also featured Daniels as the popular droid. Though Daniels moved on to other acting projects, including the animated Lord of the Rings (1978), I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1989), and the fourth installment of British television's acclaimed Prime Suspect series, he also authored the comic book The Protocol Offensive about C-3PO. When Lucas began production in the late '90s on the trio of prequels to the original Star Wars, Daniels was one of the few original cast members the story allowed to return — and Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace (1999) finally revealed the origin of a pre-gilded age C-3PO.

Movie Credits

Conjure (2006)

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
[ Ewan McGregor ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Hayden Christensen ][ Christopher Lee ][ George Lucas ]

Ghosts of Albion: Embers (2004)

Ghosts of Albion: Legacy (2003)

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
[ Ewan McGregor ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Hayden Christensen ][ Christopher Lee ][ George Lucas ]

Star Wars: Connections (2002)

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
[ Ewan McGregor ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Liam Neeson ][ George Lucas ][ Warwick Davis ]

Monopoly Star Wars (1997)
[ James Earl Jones ][ David Prowse ]

Prime Suspect 4: Inner Circles (1995)

Prime Suspect 4: The Lost Child (1995)
[ Adrian Lukis ]

Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen (1995)
[ George Lucas ][ Sean Patrick Flanery ]

The World of Eddie Weary (1990)

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990)

Star Tours (1987)
[ George Lucas ][ Paul Reubens ][ John Williams ]

The Great Heep (1986)
[ Tom Kenny ]

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
[ Harrison Ford ][ George Lucas ][ Mark Hamill ][ James Earl Jones ][ Warwick Davis ]

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
[ Harrison Ford ][ George Lucas ][ Mark Hamill ][ James Earl Jones ][ Frank Oz ]

Episode dated 15 February 1980 (1980)

Episode dated 14 February 1980 (1980)

The 'Star Wars' Holiday Special (1978)
[ Harrison Ford ][ Mark Hamill ][ James Earl Jones ][ John Williams ][ David Prowse ]

The Lord of the Rings (1978)
[ John Hurt ]

Star Wars (1977)
[ Harrison Ford ][ George Lucas ][ Mark Hamill ][ James Earl Jones ][ Alec Guinness ]

Trivia

As C-3PO he has planted his 'metal' footprints in the courtyard pavement of Mann's (formerly Graumans's) Chinese Theatre.
He was the guest of honour at the Sci-Fi Congress "Shadowcon 4" in Oslo, Norway, August 1999.
He and Kenny Baker are the only actors to have a role in all six Star Wars movies.
Ironically enough, Anthony Daniels was never a science fiction fan. The only science fiction movie he ever saw in a theatre was 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). He was so disatisfied with the movie that he walked out after only ten minutes and demanded his money back!
Is the only cast member of the Star Wars (1977) trilogy to voice his character in National Public Radio's dramatizations of the trilogy (while Mark Hamill and Billy Dee Williams voiced their characters for the Empire Strikes Back, they were replaced by Joshua Fardon and Arye Gross, respectively).
As C-3PO, he has the first line in the first Star Wars (Star Wars (1977)) and the last line in the last Star Wars (Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)).
Is the first actor to appear in both a Star Wars film and a Lord of the Rings adaptation, by having played C-3PO in Star Wars, and voicing Legolas in Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings. Other crossover actors include Paul Brooke (the Rancor keeper, who also voiced Grima Wormtongue in the BBC radio adaptation), Christopher Lee (who played Count Dooku and Saruman), Marton Csokas (who played Celeborn and was the original voice of Poggle the Lesser), Kiran Shah (who played an Ewok, and was the scale double for Elijah Wood and Ian Holm), and Bruce Spence (who played Tion Medon and the Mouth of Sauron).

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