
Peter Mayhew
Acting
🎂 1944-05-19
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)
Cast credits(32)

Chewbacca
2009

Self
2012

Chewbacca (archive footage)
2012

Chewbacca
1977

1978

Chewbacca
2015

Chewbacca
2005

Chewbacca
1976

Chewbacca
1980

Chewbacca
1983

Various
1982
1981

Chewbacca
1978

Self (uncredited)
2009

Minoton
1977

Self
2004

Peter Mayhew
2002

Self (archive footage)
2023

Peter Mayhew
2004

Dead Man
2009

Self (uncredited)
1977

Self
1980

Self
2004

Chewbacca (archive footage)
2004

Chewbacca
1982

The Mechanic
1978

Self
2016

Himself
2010

Self
1983

Self
2004

Chewbacca
1980

Special Guest Star / Chewbacca
1999