Original Star Wars Promotional Vader Actors List?

NathanM

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I'm sure this is a shot in the dark but is there a known list of who acually performed as Vader in the promo costumes and Baker Helmets? And were they all accounted for?
 
C. Andrew Nelson was the special edition Vader that walks to the shuttle in ESB
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Because of that he scored a gig traveling as Vader
He talks about it at the convention I attended

He talks about when he put the armor on you could see “dave prowse” name written inside
 
Kermit Eller, now known as Bryce Eller, was the guy who wore the Vader costume for promo appearances (including the Chinese Theatre ceremony, the Academy Awards and at least one publicity photo shoot) post filming, I believe. Was there anyone else?

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This may be a bit on the obscure side and my memory may be off,

Back for the EP3 promo commercials, print and in person appearances both myself and a friend with the initials JB were stormtroopers for much of it. Vader had a couple people with William and Andrew in their own suits. But for the LFL suit a dentist from Redondo Beach named Tom was in the costume. The reason he might fit in here is he had taken a bad step on a commercial shoot and the tour suit was badly damaged. In a hurry a replacement was brought in that was, we were told, a ROTJ original.
This would be in the Burger King commercials. Not sure of it was also the Orange UK commercial as I don't recall the timing if that as filmed before or after the bad step but that was Tom as well.

The BK commercial was like a weird unbelievable story being directed by John Landis, produced by a Band Apart being their final production and we were SAG from it with the welcome letter signed by Melissa Gilbert. Was also a key LFL man's birthday. Just one of those days.
 

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