Morris Bush

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

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 line.

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, Dengar was edited from the final movie. His appearances would anyhow would remember for the expanded universe background for the character (It was Dengar who saved Boba Fett from the Sarlacc).

Morris Bush died in 1995, not being public the causes.