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Phil Brown (Uncle Owen) passes away at 89

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These guys are droppin' left and right it seems. Well, kinda. I guess it's all over for George so it's all over for them. Many sad days await us younger fans that have to see all the great ones go.

Hey look, a bear!

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Looks like George now has the opportunity to replace Uncle Owen as well.
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R.I.P Uncle Owen


Its been quite a bad last 12 months for Star Wars actors as quite a few died last year
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That's impossible--he could only replace Shaw because he appeared very briefly as a ghost, on a different element than the background footage.

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I think he didn't mean it literally. It was a gag, implying that Lucas disrespecting the dead.
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RIP. You were an integral part of our young lives and we will miss you.
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R.I.P.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
Looks like George now has the opportunity to replace Uncle Owen as well.


Don't you dare.

RIP, Phil Brown.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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One of the many great, but brief performances in the SW canon.

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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And yet, without him, SW would be so much less. God bless him.
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Sigh, so both of Luke's guardians are gone now? At least I assume he went in a much more peaceful way than Uncle Owen did.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Sigh, so both of Luke's guardians are gone now? At least I assume he went in a much more peaceful way than Uncle Owen did.


That would be horrible if he were to go out the way Owen did.
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^^^^^Troops style would be worse I think.

Hey look, a bear!

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Originally posted by: JarHead413
^^^^^Troops style would be worse I think.


In that case, the question arises of "Who would do such a thing to him?" My answer? The 501st.
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Try to have some respect in at least one thread, Adam.


Rest in peace, Mr. Brown.

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How many SW actors have now turned into "force ghosts," so to speak?

Sir Alec Guinness: Obi-Wan (died Aug. 5, 2000 -- Ironically on one of my good Star Wars friend's birthdate)
Sebasian Shaw: Anakin Skywalker (died Dec. 23, 1994)
Phil Brown: Uncle Owen (died Feb. 9, 2006)
Peter Cushing: Moff Tarkin (died Aug. 11, 1994 -- Ironically on by birthdate, and even more ironic is that Ian McDirmed was born that same date too)
Shelagh Fraser: Aunt Beru (died Sept. 13, 2000)
Jack Purvis: Head Jawa (died Nov. 1997)
William Hootkins: Porkins (died Oct. 23, 2005)
John Hollis: Lobot (died Oct. 18, 2005)
Michael Sheard: Admrl. Ozzel (died Aug. 31, 2005)
Bruce Boa: General Rieekan (died Apr. 17, 2004)
Alex McCrindle: General Donna (died Apr. 20, 1990)
Eddie Byrne: General Willard (died Aug. 21, 1981)
Des Webb: Wampa (died May 21, 2002)

Some of these people, I don't even remember who they played. I'm just quoting names at this point. It's like a body count of people I don't even know.

I swear to God I will be inconsolable the days when Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher all head off towards that Jedi Temple in the sky. But they are still fairly young though. God forbid anything happen to them...
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Did you just look up every actor that's ever been in a SW movie to compile that list?
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Yeah. IMDB helped me out.
"I am altering the movies. Pray I don't alter them any further." -Darth Lucas
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
Yeah. IMDB helped me out.


God bless IMDB. I love that site. Don't ask how many film reviews I've written for them.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Wow, I didn't know that General Rieekan had died! He was my favorite Rebel general (well, besides Han and Lando, of course!). And General Willard died just right after The Empire Strikes Back practically. That's really uncanny to think. And Lobot and Porkins only died within five days of each other. I'd forgotten that!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.