Peter Mayhew

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Personal Info

Known for

Acting

From

Barnes, London, England, UK

Born

5/19/1944

Age

81

Credit(s)

25

Biography

Peter Mayhew (May 19, 1944 – April 30, 2019) was a British-American actor, best known for playing Chewbacca in the Star Wars films. Mayhew was born on 19 May 1944 in Barnes, Surrey, where he was also raised. His height was a product not of gigantism — "I don't have the big head" — but of an overactive pituitary gland secondary to a genetic disease ...Show More