Peter Mayhew

Birthday: 5/19/1944
Deathday: 4/30/2019
Place of birth: Barnes, London, England, UK
Fame for: Acting
Social networks: Instagram , X (Twitter) , Facebook

Biography

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 (2.21 m)