David Greenaway

David Greenaway is a puppeteer working in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

Greenaway began his career as "Dave" Greenaway, working for the Jim Henson's Creature Workshop on movies such as Dark Crystal (1982), Return to Oz (1985) or Labyrinth (1986) during the 1980s. He was one of the main puppeteers, alongside with Don Austen, David Alan Barclay or Sue Dacre among others, for Little Shop of Horrors (1986). He was also one of the puppeteers after Yoda on Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Far to reject working on TV, he did appear on three different episodes of Henson's series The Storyteller, as well as in its 1990 mini-series about Greek Myths, and in a TV movie Living with Dinosaurs, acting as one of the dogs (the other two were Dacre and Brian Henson).

Greenaway spent the first part of the 1990s as one of the main characters in Dinosaurs, the TV series about a normal family of, well, dinosaurs. Meanwhile, he was a puppeteer in successful movies like Roal Dahl's The Witches, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where he managed the animatronic of turtle Raphael. He also played a recurring character on eight episodes of TV drama Montagskinder. No puppets this time; it was just Greenaway as an actor.

Henson then selected him to act in blockbuster Babe (1995), and also to manage some muppets for TV series Animal Show from 1994 to 1997. And then, 1999 came.

On 1999, Greenaway was selected to act as one of the creatures on John Paizs' science-fiction movie Top of the Food Chain, but more important to us, he was selected by Frank Oz to help him with Yoda's animatronics. Alongisde with Don Austen and Kathy Smee, Greenaway would take care of subtle movements on the little green creature's face and body.

Since then, Greenaway has not been working specially hard. He has only appeared in a small acting role on Kristy Swanson's TV movie Zebra Lounge on 2001.