The British actor who played R2-D2 in the Star Wars films has died after a long illness, just 11 days before his 82nd birthday.
Kenny Baker, who was 3ft 8in tall, shot to fame in 1977 when he first played the robot character in a pre-CGI age, enduring hours in a tin can in the Tunisian desert!.
Birmingham-born Baker also appeared in a number of other much-loved films in the 1980s, including The Elephant Man(1980), Time Bandits(1981) and Flash Gordon(1980).
Many of his co-stars tweeted heartfelt goodbyes. “He WAS the droid I was looking for!” said Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker).
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