Person
Peter Mayhew
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- May 19, 1944 · 74 years
- Death
- April 30, 2019
- Origin
- Barnes, London, England, UK
Technical Alias
Peter William Mayhew
Professional Trajectory
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 called Marfan Syndrome. The overactive pituitary gland was treated successfully in his mid-teens. His peak height was 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m)
