{"id":151647,"date":"2019-05-02T18:48:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/chewbacca-actor-peter-mayhew-dead-at-74"},"modified":"2019-05-02T18:48:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:48:40","slug":"chewbacca-actor-peter-mayhew-dead-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/chewbacca-actor-peter-mayhew-dead-at-74","title":{"rendered":"Chewbacca Actor, Peter Mayhew, Dead at seventy four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-87218\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">    \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n    \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2019_05_02_chewbacca-actor-peter-mayhew-dies-dead\">\n<h2>\n<\/h2>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf1\">Peter Mayhew<\/span><\/p>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf2\">Chewbacca Actor Dies at 74<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"article-posted-date\">\n<\/h5>\n<p>   5\/2\/2019 3:59 PM PDT<\/p>\n<div class=\"all-post-body group article-content\">\n<p><span>Exclusive Details<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/photos\/2019\/05\/02\/peter-mayhew-star-wars\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"actor\" alt=\"actor\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chewbacca-Actor-Peter-Mayhew-Dead-at-74.jpg\" \/><\/a><strong>Chewbacca<\/strong>\u2018s howling in heaven today \u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/peter-mayhew\/\"><strong>Peter Mayhew<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 the man behind the mask of the iconic \u2018Star Wars\u2019 character \u2014 has died \u2026 according to his family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We\u2019re told the actor died from a heart condition Tuesday at his home in North Texas, and was surrounded by friends and family.<\/strong> Peter played Chewie in all three films of the original \u2018Star Wars\u2019 trilogy, and did it all over again decades later in \u2018The Revenge of the Sith\u2019 and in 2015\u2019s \u2018The Force Awakens.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"basketball player\" alt=\"basketball player\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1556840707_404_Chewbacca-Actor-Peter-Mayhew-Dead-at-74.jpg\" \/>His family says Peter fought his way back from being in a wheelchair to star in \u2018The Force Awakens\u2019 before retiring. However, he served as a consultant to Joonas Suotamo \u2014 the Finnish basketball player who took over the role in \u2018The Last Jedi.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gGPi-JqG7-A?&amp;rel=0&#038;w=728&#038;h=410]<\/p>\n<p>Mayhew\u2019s survived by his wife and 3 children. His family is asking fans to donate to the Peter Mayhew Foundation \u2014 which benefits families around the world in crisis situations \u2014 in lieu of sending flowers or gifts.<\/p>\n<p>They add \u2026 there will be a memorial service for family in June, but in December \u2026 they\u2019re planning to hold a service fans can attend in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Peter was 74.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/05\/02\/chewbacca-actor-peter-mayhew-dies-dead\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/chewbacca-actor-peter-mayhew-dead-at-74\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Mayhew Chewbacca Actor Dies at 74 5\/2\/2019 3:59 PM PDT Exclusive Details Chewbacca\u2018s howling in heaven today \u2026\u00a0Peter Mayhew \u2014 the man behind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}