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Richard LeParmentier

Actor/writer

Born - 16 July 1946, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died - 16 April 2013

Square-faced supporting actor with high forehead and light-brown hair who came to Britain in the early 1970s and played the stroppy General Motti in the first Star Wars film. Other acting credits followed before he made a second career as a screenwriter in the 1980s and 1990s. After a debut in Stardust (1974), LeParmentier made Rollerball (1975), Star Wars (1977), Valentino (1977), The Music Machine (1979), Silver Dream Racer (1980), Superman II (1980), Reds (1981), Octopussy (1983), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and The Berlin Conspiracy (1992), his last. He was married to and divorced from actress Sarah Douglas, who appeared with him in The People That Time Forgot (1977).