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Jack Klaff is a South African-born actor, writer and academic. He has held professorships at Princeton University and Starlab. Amongst his early screen roles were in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) as Red Four and For Your Eyes Only (1981) as Apostis.
Jack Klaff was born on 6 August 1951 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an actor and writer, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and King David (1985).
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- Jack Klaff
Jack has over 200 television credits including leading roles in 'Vanity Fair' (BBC), 'Miner's Strike', 'Sherlock Holmes', 'Freddie and Max', 'Ruth Rendell's Road Rage', ''Midsomer Murders', 'Last Duel' and adaptations of his own works, ‘Nagging Doubt’, ‘The Fifty Minute Hour’, ‘Maybe Baby’ and ‘Readers’ Digest’.
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"There's two things about Star Wars that are really very powerful. One is the technology, a lot of it was new; and secondly, the storytelling was based on Joseph Campbell and the structure of myth."
―Jack Klaff
Jack Klaff is a South African academic, actor, director, and writer who portrayed John D. Branon in A New Hope. Born on August 6, 1951 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Klaff began his acting career with the Brook Theater in Johannesburg. By 1976, he moved to the United Kingdom. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Academy in 1978. His television and movie credits outside of Star Wars include roles in For Your Eyes Only, Space: 1999 and Red Dwarf.
For years, many fans believed that Wedge Antilles's line "That's impossible, even for a computer" during the Battle of Yavin briefing scenes was delivered by Klaff. Since Wedge was played by Denis Lawson in all other scenes, the actor and character in this sequence was sometimes referred to as "Fake Wedge." Pablo Hidalgo revealed on his blog that Colin Higgins was in this scene, and identified Higgins as "Fake Wedge".
•Star Wars: Episode IV •"Rebel Pilot Reunion" — Star Wars Insider 32
•"My Star Wars" — Star Wars Insider 163
1."My Star Wars" — Star Wars Insider 163
2."The Hunt for the Fake Wedge" — Fragments from the Mind's Eye — Pablo Hidalgo's StarWars.com Blog (backup link)
•Jack Klaff at the Internet Movie Database
•Jack Klaff on Wikipedia
•Jack Klaff at the British Film Institute (backup link)
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Jack Klaff was born on August 6, 1951 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an actor and writer, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and King David (1985).
- August 6, 1951
Jun 2, 2024 · The critically acclaimed one-man show Kafka, adapted, scripted and performed by Jack Klaff, will receive its first production in London in over 30 years at the multi- award-winning Finborough Theatre, for a four week limited season.
For Sci Fi Central Australia, Darryl James interviewed X-Wing pilot actor Jack Klaff in London who talks about the explosion happening around him.
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