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Well that is sad:(

As a kid that little guy was my favorite character in that movie, no joke.

You know what is even more sad, until today I had no idea the character was played by an actor.  I always thought he was a puppet like Yoda.  No comment on the talent of the actor, just proof that I can get really confused sometimes.

SilverWook said:

I thought it was awesome when Nubb turned up on Venture Bros.

Yeah that was pure awesome.

Oh and thanks for the info.  It turns out I was only half as stupid as I thought I was.

Yeah I was just joking.

I remember when I was a kid and heard Roby the Robot was real, I wondered how they had produced a robot that could lift tons of solid lead and produce fifty gallons of booze:)

SilverWook said:

IIRC, they shot closeups and inserts at ILM. When Nubb talks or his face moves, it's the puppet.

Yes. The puppeteer is Mike Quinn.

Richard Bonehill wore suits for a great many background characters and was a stand-in at times. There were several extras who did the same, but I don't know of anyone else who did as many.

I think that Nien Nunb was the only character that he did that also got closeups and dialogue, so of all characters, it might be the most well-known. He was stormtroopers in both ESB and ROTJ, Snowtrooper, several Rebels, Mon Calamari officer, Ree-Yees. etc. 

Great guy with fans btw. Enjoyed talking stories.

From http://starwarsinterviews1.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/richard-bonehill-interview.html?m=1

Probably my biggest claim to fame on the Star Wars films is that I was the only extra whose autograph was requested by one of the principles. When some of the ‘regular’ crew of extras were working on the film we got quite friendly with the leading actors. At that time they was a special anniversary edition of The Eagle comic. I had been doing some photo -story shoots and I appeared in a story in this anniversary edition. What I did not know was that Mark Hamill was a great Eagle collector. He recognized me in the comic and was mightily impressed! So in front of all the crew he asked me to sign his copy of the comic!! Isn’t life bizarre !!!

Another rather strange story I remember is that one day four of us stormtroopers we asked to do a stills photoshoot with Darth Vader. We were asked by the second assistant director to make a mess of it, dropping our guns, helmets etc. and try and make it last for at least three hours. This did seem very strange at the time but as it meant extra money we did our best to make fools of ourselves! We found out later that the object of the exercise was to keep Dave Prowse away from the shooting stage where the main unit was filming the scene where is helmet was removed to reveal a different actor as Darth Vader !

Louis Jourdan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jourdan

My last remaining great-grandparent died a couple days ago at the age of 96.

Sorry to hear that, RicOlie_2.  You have my sympathies.  I wish I had been able to know my great-grandparents.  They all died before I was born, the last one mere months before I was born.

Thanks, but as I haven't seen her much in the last several years, I felt little more than a twinge of regret, I'm afraid. She nearly died twice in my memory, and I was less affected by it each time, partly due to seeing her less and less often, no doubt.

I knew three of my great-grandparents, one of which had quite a few interesting stories to tell...many, many times over with no variation....

Harris Wittles, one of my favorite comedians and a writer/producer on Parks and Rec, has died. I am very sad this day.

^Just take a gander at the Star Trek thread.

But anyway, in tribute to Mr. Nimoy, here's the best non-Trek related thing he ever appeared in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7OJeyhq2Q

;-)