Morris Bush

Morris Bush (d. 1995) was the actor who played Dengar.

British actor Morris Bush did a very small part on a few of the Hammer horror films. He played the unnamed farmer in Roy Ward Baker's Scars of Dracula (1970), alongside with Christopher Lee in his usual Dracula role.

Bush also appeared a few years later as a monster in musical comedy Son of Dracula (1974), directed by Freddie Francis. A strange movie with Ringo Starr as Merlin the magician, Bush's role is not particularly remember (contrarily, for instance, to David Prowse's role as "the monster from hell" in another late Hammer movie).

Bush was selected to play mummy-like bounty hunter Dengar in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), uncredited and without any speaking lines.

Dengar was intended to appear again in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), as one of the background characters on Jabba the Hutt's sail barge, and his footage was filmed. However, save for a small appearance shortly after Luke Skywalker falls into the Rancor pit, Dengar was edited from the final movie. His appearances would be used as Expanded Universe background for the character that take place shortly after the events at Jabba's Palace. (It was Dengar who saved Boba Fett from the Sarlacc).

Morris Bush died in 1995 of unknown causes.