25 Movie Talents We Lost In 2016
14. Kenny Baker
British actor Kenny Baker’s best known role was as Star Wars droid R2-D2 who he played in both the first three original films and the later prequel series.
He also played an Ewok in Return of the Jedi and most recently was credited as an ‘R2-D2 consultant’ in the first instalment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, The Force Awakens.
There was life beyond Star Wars for Baker too, though. He appeared in award-winning films like Milos Forman’s Amadeus and David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, alongside fellow victim of 2016 David Bowie in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, the fantasy flicks Time Bandits and Willow and in cult, camp superhero movie Flash Gordon.