Highest rated movie: Star Wars (1977)
Lowest rated movie: The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
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Looking for reviews of Peter Mayhew movies? Cinafilm has a total of 6,522 reviews across 14 movies.
Movies starring Peter Mayhew have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.
Star Wars - released in 1977 - is Peter Mayhew's highest rated movie, with a score of 88% based on 914 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Peter Mayhew is The Star Wars Holiday Special - released in 1978 - with a score of 24% based on 421 reviews.
Peter Mayhew (19 May 1944-30 April 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.
Peter Mayhew has acted in films with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels and Harrison Ford.
Peter Mayhew has worked with these film directors: George Lucas, Mark Hamill, J.J. Abrams and Sam Wanamaker.
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