Peter Mayhew - Movies, Bio & Filmography

Meet Peter Mayhew

★ Acting🎥 23 films📺 5 TV shows📅 1976–2016🔥 1

Also known as: Peter William Mayhew

Born in Barnes, London, England, UK

1944-05-19 (age 74 at death)

Died 2019-04-30

Peter Mayhew (May 19, 1944 – April 30, 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)