A Star Wars Original Trilogy Universe Character List

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2-1B – Medical droid who treats Luke Skywalker’s wounds and fits him with a prosthetic hand in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

4-LOM – A bounty hunter droid in The Empire Strikes Back. 4-LOM was an ambitious protocol droid who overwrote his own programming to embark on a life of crime. – portrayed by Chris Parsons

8D8 – An 8D smelter droid working in Jabba the Hutt’s palace in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Admiral Ackbar – Commands the Rebel fleet in their attack against the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi. Ackbar was a Mon Calamari leader and military commander. Aptly given a name that means “selfless servant,” Ackbar devoted himself to the cause of galactic freedom and became the foremost military commander of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, having previously been an Imperial slave, and the later New Republic. – portrayed by Timothy M. Rose and voiced by Erik Bauersfeld

Raymus Antilles – Captain of the Tantive IV in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope. He was choked by Darth Vader in Episode IV. Apparently no relation to Wedge Antilles. – portrayed by Rohan Nichol and Peter Geddis

Wedge Antilles – A Rebel and New Republic starfighter pilot. – portrayed by Denis Lawson

Queen Breha Antilles Organa – Ruler of Alderaan, wife of Bail Organa, and adoptive mother of Leia Organa in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. – portrayed by Rebecca Jackson Mendoza

Ponda Baba – Aqualish mercenary who attacks Luke Skywalker in Star Wars I: A New Hope. When the original Kenner action figure for Baba was released, the then-unnamed alien was called simply “Walrus Man”. His proper name (as well as the name of his species) was given in 1989 for his appearance in a Star Wars role-playing game.

Blue Max – Droid that is part of Han Solo’s crew in The Han Solo Adventures by Brian Daley.

Bossk – A Trandoshan bounty hunter in Episode IV: The Empire Strikes Back. – portrayed by Alan Harris

Bollux – Droid that is part of Han Solo’s crew in The Han Solo Adventures by Brian Daley.

C-3PO – Protocol droid who appears throughout the Star Wars films and Expanded Universe. – portrayed by Anthony Daniels

Lando Calrissian – Old friend of Han Solo. Businessman and scoundrel who leads the Rebels’ space attack against the Death Star in Return of the Jedi. He eventually resigns his military commission and returns to being a businessman. – portrayed by Billy Dee Williams

Chewbacca – Han Solo’s partner and co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon. Chewbacca and his wife, Mallatobuck, have a son named Lumpawarrump. – portrayed by Peter Mayhew

Chief Chirpa – Chief of the Ewoks on the forest moon of Endor in Return of the Jedi.

Arvel Crynyd – A-wing pilot who crashes into the Star Dreadnought Executor causing it to spin out of control in Return of the Jedi. – portrayed by Hilton McRae
Salacious B. Crumb – Kowakian monkey-lizard in Jabba the Hutt’s court. ose’s antics controlling the Crumb puppet led to an increase in the character’s prominence. – portrayed by Tim Rose and voiced by Mark Dodson

Biggs Darklighter – Luke Skywalker’s friend from Tatooine who helps in attacking the Death Star. Biggs’ reunion with Luke was cut from the theatrical release of A New Hope but restored for the Special Edition release. – portrayed by Garrick Hagon

Dengar – Corellian bounty hunter who appeared in The Empire Strikes Back. – portrayed by Morris Bush

Bren Derlin – Hoth Rebel officer in The Empire Strikes Back. – portrayed by John Ratzenberger

Jan Dodonna – Rebel general who plans the attack on the first Death Star and the first character to utter the phrase “May the Force be with you”. – portrayed by Alex McCrindle

K-3PO – Protocol droid seen in The Empire Strikes Back.

EV-9D9 – Droid working in Jabba the Hutt’s palace in Return of the Jedi. – voiced by Richard Marquand

Doctor Cornelius Evazan – Character who antagonizes Luke Skywalker in the Mos Eisley cantina in A New Hope. – portrayed by Alfie Curtis

Boba Fett – Clone of Jango Fett raised by Jango on Kamino as his son. Becomes a bounty hunter. He was eaten alive by Jabba the Hutt’s Sarlacc but later escapes? Hopefully. – portrayed by Jeremy Bulloch (V-VI) and Jason Wingreen (voice, V) Temuera Morrison (voice in the 2004 release of the Original Trilogy)

Bib Fortuna – A male Twi’lek from the planet Ryloth who serves as Jabba the Hutt’s majordomo in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. – portrayed by Michael Carter and voiced by Erik Bauersfeld
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Yarna D’al Gargan – Askajian dancer from Jabba the Hutt’s palace. – portrayed by Claire Davenport

Garindan – Also known as Long-Snoot. Is a long-snouted creature who leads Imperial Stormtroopers to the Millennium Falcon. – portrayed by Sadie Eddon

Gonk Droid – A rectangular-cubed shaped droid that walks very slowly. It is a series of power unit droids. Originally called the Power Droid by Kenner in the Action Figures.
Greedo – Rodian bounty hunter who serves Jabba the Hutt. At the Mos Eisley Cantina in A New Hope he attempts to kill Han Solo, something he has “been looking forward to… for a long time” but Solo shoots him instead. – portrayed by Paul Blake and Maria de Aragon

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IG-88 – Bounty hunter introduced in The Empire Strikes Back. Ralph McQuarrie’s production sketches show a sleeker design than the droid that appears in The Empire Strikes Back. The term “IG-88” itself is not the original label, the script calls the character a “chrome war droid” and during production it was called “Phlutdroid”. The production puppet consisted of recycled props from A New Hope including the Mos Eisley Cantina drink dispenser as its head.

Jabba the Hutt – A crime boss employing bounty hunters in The Phantom Menace, The Clone Wars, A New Hope and Return of the Jedi. He is killed by Leia Organa aboard his sail barge in Return of the Jedi. – voiced by Larry Ward and operated by Mike Edmonds, Dave Barclay, Toby Philpott, and John Coppinger

Moff Jerjerrod – Commanding officer of the second Death Star. – portrayed by Michael Pennington

Jubnuk – One of Jabba the Hutt’s Gamorrean guards. He was eaten alive by the Rancor.

Obi-Wan Kenobi – Jedi Master who trains Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker. – portrayed by Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor (films) and James Arnold Taylor (The Clone Wars)

Klaatu – Jabba the Hutt’s skiff guards from Return of the Jedi. Originally named “Woof” by ILM designers, Klaatu is a green dog-like humanoid.

Derek “Hobbie” Klivian – Rogue Squadron pilot in The Empire Strikes Back. – portrayed by Richard Oldfield

Beru Lars – She is the aunt of Luke Skywalker and she is killed and incinerated by Stormtroopers in A New Hope. – portrayed by Bonnie Piesse and Shelagh Fraser

Owen Lars – Son of Cliegg Lars and stepbrother of Anakin Skywalker. He and his wife take custody of Luke Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith. He is the uncle of Luke Skywalker and he is killed by Stormtroopers. – portrayed by Phil Brown and Joel Edgerton

Lobot – Lando Calrissian’s cyborg aide in The Empire Strikes Back. – portrayed by John Hollis

Logray – An Ewok Medicine Man. – portrayed by Mike Edmonds

General Crix Madine – Imperial officer who defects to the Rebel Alliance. – played by Dermot Crowley

Droopy McCool – Member of the Max Rebo Band. He is a Kitonak. – portrayed by Deep Roy

Mon Mothma – Republic senator; later, co-founder and leader of the Rebel Alliance. – portrayed by Caroline Blakiston and Genevieve O’Reilly

Admiral Conan Antonio Motti – Officer aboard the Death Star over-confident in its power. George Lucas, in a May 1, 2007, appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, gave Motti’s full name as “Conan Antonio Motti”. – portrayed by Richard LeParmentier

Momaw Nadon – Ithorian seen in the Mos Eisley cantina in A New Hope. Named “Hammerhead” during the Kenner action figure runs of the 1970s and 1980s.

Captain Lorth Needa – Captain of the Star Destroyer Avenger and killed by Darth Vader for failing to capture the Millennium Falcon in The Empire Strikes Back. – portrayed by Michael Culver

Nien Nunb – Sullustan and Lando Calrissian’s co-pilot in Return of the Jedi. – portrayed by Richard Bonehill and Mike Quinn

Oola -Young Twi’lek dancer who wore a leash connected to Jabba the Hutt’s throne. She was eaten by Jabba’s rancor – portrayed by Femi Taylor

Bail Organa – Leia Organa’s adoptive father and one of the Rebel Alliance’s founding members. He was killed in the destruction of Alderaan. – portrayed by Jimmy Smits in Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
Princess Leia Organa – Luke Skywalker’s sister and Han Solo’s wife. Leader in the Rebel Alliance and the New Republic. – portrayed by Carrie Fisher

Admiral Kendal Ozzel – Initial commander of Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer Executor in The Empire Strikes Back. Vader kills Ozzel for his incompetence. George Lucas remarked that Sheard produced “the best screen death” he’d seen. – portrayed by Michael Sheard

Emperor Palpatine – Naboo senator also known as Darth Sidious. Dark Lord of the Sith whose machinations turn the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire. Lures Anakin Skywalker to the dark side of the Force and dubs him Darth Vader. Eventually killed by a redeemed Anakin Skywalker. – portrayed by Ian McDiarmid

Paploo – One of the Ewoks in The Return of the Jedi. He steals a speeder from the scout troopers. – portrayed by Kenny Baker

Firmus Piett – Imperial officer, initially a captain, who is promoted to replace Admiral Ozzel as commanding officer of the Executor after Vader kills Ozzel. Dies when the Executor is destroyed in Return of the Jedi. – portrayed by Kenneth Colley

Darth Plagueis – Sith Lord, mentioned in Revenge of the Sith, who trained Palpatine. He was obsessed with finding the key to immortality.

Jek Tono Porkins – A corpulent X-wing pilot codenamed “Red Six” killed in A New Hope. – portrayed by William

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R2-D2 – Astromech droid that appears in all six Star Wars films. – portrayed by Kenny Baker
R5-D4 – Droid whose motivator blows in the midst of a transaction with Owen Lars on Tatooine resulting in the ownership of R2-D2 by Luke Skywalker. Note that in A New Hope Luke describes R5-D4 as an “R2 unit” implying a relationship between the types.

Dak Ralter – Luke Skywalker’s Snowspeeder gunner in The Empire Strikes Back. – portrayed by John Morton
Max Rebo – Leader of the Max Rebo Band in Return of the Jedi. – portrayed by Simon Williamson

Ree-Yees – A three-eyed alien seen in the background at Jabba’s Palace in the film Return of the Jedi. The character’s backstory is that he is a banished Gran convicted of murder on his homeworld, Kinyen. Ree-Yees expatriated to Tatooine where he established himself in Jabba’s Palace. Later Ree-Yees plotted to assassinate Jabba the Hutt for the Galactic Empire in exchange for a retraction of his murder sentence.

General Carlist Rieekan – Rebel commanding officer on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. – portrayed by Bruce Boa

Rogue Squadron – Rebel Alliance and New Republic starfighter pilots featured in the original trilogy and Expanded Universe.

Anakin Skywalker – Jedi whose fall and redemption are portrayed in the Star Wars films. – portrayed by Jake Lloyd (I), Hayden Christensen (II, III and the revised version of VI), James Earl Jones (voice) (III, IV, V and VI), David Prowse (IV, V, and VI), and Sebastian Shaw (VI)

Luke Skywalker – Anakin Skywalker’s and Padme Amidala’s son and Leia Organa’s twin. Jedi whose coming of age and rise as a Jedi are portrayed in the original Star Wars trilogy and Star Wars Expanded Universe. Luke re-establishes the Jedi Order. – portrayed by Mark Hamill
Sy Snootles – Lead vocalist of the Max Rebo Band in Return of the Jedi.

Han Solo – Captain of the Millennium Falcon who ultimately joins the Rebellion and marries Leia Organa. – portrayed by Harrison Ford

General Cassio Tagge – Imperial officer aboard the Death Star in A New Hope. – portrayed by Don Henderson

Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin – The commanding officer of the Death Star in A New Hope. – portrayed by Peter Cushing

Tessek – portrayed by Gerald Home – Also known as “Squid Head”, Jabba the Hutt’s accountant in Return of the Jedi.

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Darth Vader – The alter-ego of Anakin Skywalker after his fall to the dark side. – portrayed by David Prowse (IV-VI), Sebastian Shaw (unmasked original, VI), Hayden Christensen (III and VI DVD), and James Earl Jones (voice, III�VI)

General Maximilian Veers – Officer who led the Empire’s attack on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. He is also the creator of the AT-AT walker. – portrayed by Julian Glover

Vuffi Raa – Lando Calrissian’s droid companion in The Adventures of Lando Calrissian.

Wicket W. Warrick – Ewok who helps Princess Leia and the other Rebels in Return of the Jedi and who also appears in the Star Wars Ewoks animated series and the TV movies Caravan of Courage and Battle For Endor. – portrayed by Warwick Davis

Wuher – Bartender at the Mos Eisley Cantina in A New Hope. – portrayed by Ted Burnett

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Yoda – Jedi master who trained Count Dooku and Luke Skywalker. His homeworld is unknown but he goes into exile on Dagobah after the fall of the Republic in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. – portrayed by Frank Oz

Zuckuss – Gand Bounty hunter appearing in The Empire Strikes Back. Zuckuss is an ammonia-breathing Gand findsman. He employs special religious rituals to locate his quarry. – portrayed by Cathy Munro