20 Actors You Never Knew Were In Star Wars
1. John Wayne - A New Hope
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And we save the weirdest cameo for last now, because you probably never knew that John freakin' Wayne technically makes an appearance of-sorts in A New Hope.
While Wayne didn't have any direct involvement with the production, his voice was subtly included in the film.
During the scene where the Mos Eisley spy Garindan informs the Stormtroopers where Luke (Mark Hamill), Obi-Wan (Alec Guinness), and co. are, his voice is nothing but a garbled, synthesised collection of indecipherable sounds.
Except, sound editor Ben Burtt later admitted that Wayne's own voice served as the basis for that sound:
"We had that character that looked kind of like a mosquito from the first Star Wars [Garindan] that we found we needed a sound for. And I was wondering back a few months ago how I did it – because I keep notes and tapes – and I discovered it was an electronic buzzing which had come off of my synthesizer that was triggered by a human voice. And I listened to it and realised it was John Wayne – I had found some loop lines in the trash from the studio that had been thrown away. So the buzzing was triggered by some dialog like 'All right, what are you doin' in this town' or something like that."
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