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    Potential Lunch Winner Dom Heffner's Avatar
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    RIP Jason Wingreen

    95 years old. Bartender on Archie Bunker...voice of...Boba Fett????

    Never knew. And apparently nobody did until 2000.

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-family-851697

    On The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Wingreen auditioned for the part of Yoda. He didn’t get that role (Frank Oz did), but he was given four lines of dialogue spoken by the masked Boba Fett, the feared bounty hunter who captures Han Solo (Harrison Ford).

    “I think the actual work, aside from the hellos and goodbyes and all that, could have been no more than 10 minutes,” he said. He received no credit for his work (it didn’t become publicly known that the voice was his until about 2000) and lamented that he received no residuals for the performance — especially since it’s Wingreen heard on some Boba Fett action figures.
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    A Pleasure to Burn Joseph's Avatar
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    Re: RIP Jason Wingreen

    Even as a Star Wars nerd I didn't know that part.

    95, we should all live so long.

    RIP.

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