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Empire of Dreams

Index Empire of Dreams

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy is a 2004 documentary film directed by Kevin Burns and narrated by Robert Clotworthy. [1]

79 relations: A&E (TV channel), Alan Ladd Jr., Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Aspect ratio (image), Ben Burtt, Bill Moyers, Billy Dee Williams, C-3PO, Carrie Fisher, Chewbacca, Cindy Williams, Darth Vader, David Prowse, Dennis Muren, Disney–ABC Domestic Television, Documentary film, Emmy Award, Frank Oz, Gareth Wigan, Gary Kurtz, George Lucas, Grand Moff Tarkin, Han Solo, Harrison Ford, Howard Kazanjian, Industrial Light & Magic, Irvin Kershner, James Earl Jones, Joe Johnston, John Dykstra, John Williams, Ken Ralston, Kenny Baker (English actor), Kevin Burns, Kurt Russell, Lando Calrissian, Lawrence Kasdan, Leo Braudy, Lorne Peterson, Lucasfilm, Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill, Molly Shock, Monaural, Norman Reynolds, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Paul Hirsch (film editor), Perry King, Peter Cushing, ..., Peter Diamond (actor), Peter Mayhew, Phil Tippett, Princess Leia, Prometheus Entertainment, R2-D2, Ralph McQuarrie, Return of the Jedi, Richard Chew, Richard Edlund, Richard Marquand, Robert Clotworthy, Robert Watts, Sid Ganis, Star Wars, Star Wars (film), Steve Gawley, Steven Spielberg, Stuart Freeborn, Terri Nunn, The Empire Strikes Back, University of Southern California, Walter Cronkite, Warwick Davis, Wicket W. Warrick, William Katt, Yoda, 20th Century Fox, 20th Television. Expand index (29 more) »

A&E (TV channel)

A&E is an American digital cable and satellite television television channel.

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Alan Ladd Jr.

Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. (born October 22, 1937) is an American film industry executive and producer.

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Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor.

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Anthony Daniels

Anthony Daniels (born 21 February 1946) is an English actor and mime artist.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image describes the proportional relationship between its width and its height.

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Ben Burtt

Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. (born July 12, 1948) is an American sound designer, film editor, director, screenwriter, and voice actor.

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Bill Moyers

Billy Don Moyers (born June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator.

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Billy Dee Williams

William December "Billy Dee" Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, artist, singer, and writer.

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C-3PO

C-3PO or See-Threepio is a humanoid robot character from the ''Star Wars'' franchise who appears in the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy and the sequel trilogy.

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Carrie Fisher

Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress, writer, and humorist.

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Chewbacca

Chewbacca, nicknamed "Chewie", is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.

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Cindy Williams

Cynthia Jane Williams (born August 22, 1947) is an American actress, best known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976–1982).

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Darth Vader

Darth Vader (birth name Anakin Skywalker) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.

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David Prowse

David Charles Prowse, MBE (born 1 July 1935) is an English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor in British film and television.

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Dennis Muren

Dennis Muren, A.S.C (born November 1, 1946) is an American film special effects artist & supervisor, most notable for his work on the films of Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and George Lucas.

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Disney–ABC Domestic Television

Disney–ABC Domestic Television, also operating as ABC Syndication (formerly known as Buena Vista Television, Inc., also known as Disney Domestic Television and currently known as Disney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution), is the in-home sales and content distribution firm of the Disney–ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Frank Oz

Frank Oz (born Frank Richard Oznowicz; May 25, 1944) is an English-born American puppeteer, filmmaker and actor.

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Gareth Wigan

Gareth Wigan (December 2, 1931 – February 13, 2010) was a British agent, producer and studio executive known for working on such films as George Lucas's Star Wars.

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Gary Kurtz

Gary Douglas Kurtz (born July 27, 1940) is an American film producer whose list of credits includes American Graffiti (1973), Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Dark Crystal (1982) and Return to Oz (1985).

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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Grand Moff Tarkin

Governor Wilhuff Tarkin is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, first portrayed by Peter Cushing in the 1977 film Star Wars.

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Han Solo

Han Solo is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise.

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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer.

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Howard Kazanjian

Howard G. Kazanjian (born July 26, 1942) is an American film producer known for Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi.

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Industrial Light & Magic

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas.

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Irvin Kershner

Irvin Kershner (born Isadore Kershner; April 29, 1923November 27, 2010) was an American actor and director of film and television.

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James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor.

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Joe Johnston

Joseph Eggleston Johnston II (born May 13, 1950) is an American film director and former effects artist best known for such effects-driven movies as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Jumanji (1995) and Jurassic Park III (2001).

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John Dykstra

John Charles Dykstra, A.S.C. (born June 3, 1947) is an American special effects artist, pioneer in the development of the use of computers in filmmaking and recipient of three Academy Awards, among many other awards and prizes.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Ken Ralston

Kenneth "Ken" Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks.

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Kenny Baker (English actor)

Kenneth George Baker (24 August 1934 – 13 August 2016) was an English actor and musician.

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Kevin Burns

Kevin Burns (born June 18, 1955 in Schenectady, New York) is an American television and film producer, director, and screenwriter.

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Kurt Russell

Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor.

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Lando Calrissian

Baron Landonis "Lando" Calrissian is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. In the original trilogy, Lando is introduced as an old friend of Han Solo, who prior to the events of the film was the original owner of the Millennium Falcon, until he lost the ship to Han in a bet. In the film, he is a former smuggler, who became the Baron-Administrator of the Cloud City of gas planet Bespin, and later becomes part of the Rebel Alliance. He is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), while Donald Glover portrays a younger Lando in the 2018 standalone film Solo: A Star Wars Story. Lando also appears frequently in the ''Star Wars'' expanded universe of novels, comic books and video games, including a series of ''Legends'' novels in which he is the protagonist.

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Lawrence Kasdan

Lawrence Edward Kasdan (born January 14, 1949) is an American screenwriter, director and producer.

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Leo Braudy

Leo Braudy (born June 11, 1941) is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he teaches 17th- and 18th-century English literature, film history and criticism, and American culture.

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Lorne Peterson

Lorne Peterson is a Canadian special effects artist most known for the Indiana Jones and Star Wars films.

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Lucasfilm

Lucasfilm Ltd.

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Luke Skywalker

Luke Skywalker is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the original film trilogy of the ''Star Wars'' franchise created by George Lucas.

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Mark Hamill

Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American stage, screen and voice actor.

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Molly Shock

Molly Shock is an American film and television Film editor, a two-time ACE Award nominee and a two-time Emmy Award nominee.

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Monaural

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.

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Norman Reynolds

Norman Reynolds (born 26 March 1934 in London, England)Norman Reynolds: Visualizing Victorian England", Starlog #104, February 1986, pp 29-31.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise.

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Paul Hirsch (film editor)

Paul Hirsch (born November 14, 1945) is an American film editor.

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Perry King

Perry Firestone King (born April 30, 1948) is an American television and film actor.

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Peter Cushing

Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 191311 August 1994) was an English actor best known for his roles in the Hammer Productions horror films of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, as well as his performance as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977).

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Peter Diamond (actor)

Peter Diamond (10 August 1929 – 27 March 2004) was an English actor who had trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is remembered as a stuntman on television or film.

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Peter Mayhew

Peter Mayhew (born 19 May 1944) is an English-American actor, best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series.

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Phil Tippett

Phil Tippett (born September 27, 1951 in Berkeley, California) is an American movie director and Oscar and Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design, stop-motion and computerized character animation.

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Princess Leia

Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan (also Senator Leia Organa or General Leia Organa) is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, portrayed in films by Carrie Fisher.

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Prometheus Entertainment

Prometheus Entertainment is an American production company, specializing in documentary, reality, and non-fiction television programming and specials.

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R2-D2

R2-D2, or Artoo-Detoo, is a fictional robot character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise created by George Lucas.

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Ralph McQuarrie

Ralph Angus McQuarrie (June 13, 1929 – March 3, 2012) was an American conceptual designer and illustrator.

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Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi) is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand.

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Richard Chew

Richard Franklin Chew (born June 28, 1940) is an American film editor, producer, and cinematographer, best known for his Academy Award-winning work on Star Wars (1977), alongside Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas.

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Richard Edlund

Richard Edlund, A.S.C. (born December 6, 1940) is a multi-Academy Award-winning US special effects cinematographer.

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Richard Marquand

Richard Marquand (22 September 1937 – 4 September 1987) was a Welsh film director, best known for directing 1983's Return of the Jedi.

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Robert Clotworthy

Robert Bruce Clotworthy (born October 24, 1955) is an American actor and voice actor.

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Robert Watts

Robert Watts (born 23 May 1938)Adam Pirani, Robert Watts: Secrets of "The Temple of Doom", Starlog #94, April 1985, pp 23–26,62.

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Sid Ganis

Sidney (Sid) Ganis (born January 8, 1940) is an American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as Big Daddy, Deuce Bigalow, Mr. Deeds, The Master of Disguise and Akeelah and the Bee.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Star Wars (film)

Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas.

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Steve Gawley

Steve Gawley (born 1952) is a special effects artist who was nominated at the 62nd Academy Awards in the category of Best Visual effects for his work on the film Back to the Future Part II.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Stuart Freeborn

Stuart Freeborn (5 September 1914 – 5 February 2013) was an English motion picture make-up artist.

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Terri Nunn

Terri Kathleen Nunn (born June 26, 1961), is an American singer and actress.

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The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.

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Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981).

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Warwick Davis

Warwick Ashley Davis (born 3 February 1970) is an English actor, television presenter, writer, director and producer.

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Wicket W. Warrick

Wicket W. Warrick is a fictional character from the Star Wars franchise, first introduced and portrayed by Warwick Davis in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi.

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William Katt

William Theodore Katt (born February 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor, voice artist and musician best known as the star of the television series The Greatest American Hero.

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Yoda

Yoda is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise created by George Lucas, first appearing in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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20th Television

Twentieth Television (or 20TV, stylized as 20th Television) is an American television syndication studio and the syndication arm of 20th Century Fox Television, itself a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Dreams

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