Peter Mayhew
Explore the best Peter Mayhew movies ranked by Movie Rankings users. The current highest-ranked actor credit here is Return of the Jedi. Browse 5 ranked credits, plus biography and full filmography.
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)
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Return of the Jedi is currently the highest-ranked Peter Mayhew movie on Movie Rankings based on aggregate head-to-head results from the community.
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