RIP the guy Darth Vader choked

Headline: "Actor in infamous 'Star Wars' scene has died."

Never heard of the guy before or since, but I knew exactly who it meant.

"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/16/17781096-actor-in-infamous-star-wars-scene-has-died?lite&lite=obnetwork

RIP Richard LeParmentier, and may the force be with you.

 

No details on the cause of death. Would be rather ironic (or not; I have no clue what the hell irony is anymore) if he choked to death.

 

Leave Irony Police alone. He's busy fortifying homeland security.

 

Fuck the (Irony) Police!

 

I guess heaven needed someone to go find the ambassador on the consular ship.

 

Thanks to the story linked on the thread, I realized LeParmentier also played the police lieutenant who had some scenes with Bob Hoskins Eddie Valiant in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." (his best line was "now that's what I call one seriously disturbed toon.") Loved both movies, but I never made the connection that it was the same actor until now.

 

I think these RIPs are getting out of hand. What's next? "RIP the bartender who was on-screen for 3 seconds as he poured James Bond a martini in Doctor No"

 

Who cares? No one is harmed by them.

 

IMDB says the late choke guy was also in Octopussy. "U.S. Aide." Can't say I remember him, and I've seen that one entirely too many times.