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On April 15th, Richard LeParmentier passed away aged just 66. He portrayed the best known of the Death Star’s war room generals in the original 1977 classic. His death came as something of a shock to many of us who were unaware of any illness. His funeral is being held today in Texas.
LeParmentier gave Motti exactly what was needed onscreen, an arrogant, cocky upstart, bookish and conniving, outspoken and ambitious. For many audience members, myself included, Motti was one of the first characters of this type that I encountered as a child. I haven’t seen any of LeParmentier’s work outside of Star Wars, which I can’t help but feel is my loss. For example, how many Star Wars fans realize what a wealth of entertaining cinematic gems lie among Peter Cushing’s extensive body of work?
LeParmentier was interviewed by Jeremiah Michael Stewart for Retro Star Wars podcast last December and now seems a fitting time to listen to the man who was both gracious and good humored about his work in Star Wars.
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See if you can spot Richard LeParmentier in this Xbox Star Wars Kinect commercial!
I remember seeing him as Eddie’s cop buddy in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” and being all “OOH! OOH! It’s the guy Vader choked!”
Wait, that was him?
I really wanna see disney’s wreck-it-ralph. it seems to be the video game roger rabbit!
Well, thats a sweet Darth Vader 😉
At least he was promoted to Grand Admiral before he passed away. I heard a rumor that the girl in the commercial is supposed to be his granddaughter. Anyone know if that’s true?
Just watch out where you sit on that thing Boba Fett! 😛
That was fun! I love the role that Clint Howard had in it!
Clint Howard – are you serious?
I can’t believe it. He was actually in MY version of Star Wars!
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John
Looks like Shadows of the Empire crammed tons of events and people in a way that doesn’t quite line up with the beginning of Return of the Jedi. If so, it reminds me of the EU book “Death Star” – one part had the rebels send two battleships and 500 Xwings against a pre-operational Death Star, a bit before Leia’s capture and all that. The Imperials defeated them with like a thousand TIE fighters and a rapid fire superlaser. They should just set these stories in different settings and different characters!
I got a T-shirt! I was looking at the dark red one, but ended up picking the black.
Thank you so much, Phil! And yeah, I feel the same way about Shadows. I just feel like a big adventure is shoehorned into what felt like a brief period of time between ESB and ROTJ. I know the EU fanatics will want to explain how somewhere, someone stated that such and such took so many months to occur between this and that… but I’m talking about how things felt on screen in the original movies. Anyway, we’re parodying Shadows now. 🙂
Who’s gonna try to stop Fett if he tries to bring in some undoccumented fruit and vegitables?
RIP Richard LeParmentier AKA Motti.
Was that him laughing at everyone else? 🙂
Richard is the one in the white uniform behind the guy playing his old role. It puzzles the shit out of me why they couldn’t have cast Richard in his old role and give us the lines once again. That would have been so much better.
I don’t know, I think seeing him laugh at the misery of others who shared his earlier fate, and almost hiding in plain sight while he does it, makes it even funnier.
Either way, was it just me, or did all the imperials have some seroius facial issues?
I guess it’s what they call “character”. 🙂
wait, he was already at Tatooine to deliver Solo and then flew off to some other planet because his ship broke down. Couldn’t he just land on Tatooine? Beautiful comic btw.
I’ve enver been a follower of marvel comics, but even I love that galactus strip. Who’s idea was it? leanne’s? x3
We can’t take credit for it. We found it on the internet.
I too love that it’s him that is not getting choked and laughing at all the others. Never would have known that was him if you hadn’t mentioned he was in the commercial. Thanks for the easter egg.