Gerald Home

Infobox actor
name = Gerald Home

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birthdate = birth date and age|1950|10|18
birthplace = Belfast, Northern Ireland
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occupation = Actor
yearsactive = 1977 - present
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website = http://geraldhome.dr-maul.com/

Gerald Home is the actor who played Tessek-Squid Head and the Mon Calamari Officer in "". He also worked as a puppeteer on the movie "Little Shop of Horrors".

Early life

He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on October 18, 1950, and emigrated to Australia with his family when he was 16. He finished his education in Australia and spent 3 years there as an actor and teacher before returning to the U.K. to train at The Drama Studio London. He graduated from there in July 1977, and has been an actor ever since.

Career

He has had a wide and varied career as an actor, playing in theatres all around the United Kingdom in plays such as "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Treasure Island", "A Christmas Carol", "The Winter's Tale", "Salad Days", "Bell, Book and Candle", "The Country Wife", "Alice in Wonderland", "Sus", "The Wizard of Oz" and "Dreams of Anne Frank". He also toured the UK and France in the mime show "Prufrock".

In the West End of London he has appeared in "No Sex Please, We're British", "The Arabian Nights" and in "The Blue Angel" with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has been in 10 plays at the Polka Theatre, in Wimbledon, London, where he lives.

His many TV appearances include: "Casualty", "The Boot Street Band", "Spitting Image", "Situation Critical", "Jenny's War", "Keeping Mum", "Harry's Mad", "Time Gentlemen Please", "Pay & Display", "Paul Dreams of Bette", "The Scarlet and the Black" and "Shane".

He was the original Mr. Muscle in the long-running series of "Mr. Muscle" TV commercials which were shown around the world, and he has also made commercials for Holland, Germany, Ireland and Belgium.

Relationship with fans

Gerald has also appeared at many conventions and shows, meeting lots of Star Wars fans around the globe. He is an Honorary Member of several fan groups, including the 501st Legion and the Rebel Legion, the Jedi Outcasts of Italy, Holored Estelar Seville, and the Bydgoski Fanklub in Poland. He has also been made an Honorary Jedi Master by the Jedi Knights of Cleveland, is "Godfather" to L'Alliance Impériale in Quebec, Canada, and is a Senator on the Knights of the Empire (KOTE) Imperial Senate in the UK.

He has his own club in Spain - The CalamariMen Club, in appreciation of the two characters he played in "Return Of The Jedi", and in 2007, he narrated a 30th anniversary concert of Star Wars music, in Spanish, in Valencia, for charity.

He is Honorary Ambassador of the Star Wars Outer Rim Alliance (SWORA), an international alliance of many Star Wars fan groups from all around the world, which he co-founded in 2008.

External links

* [http://www.GeraldHome.com/ Gerald Home official website]

* [http://imdb.com/name/nm0392935/ IMDB]

* [http://yildizsavaslari.com/inceleme/geraldhome/index-eng.html Gerald Home Interview Star Wars Turkey]

* [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gerald_Home Wookieepedia]

* [http://www.starwarsy.pl/opowiadania/wywiad_home_eng.htm Gerald Home Interview]

* [http://www.allianceimperiale.com/MembresHono_en.html Gerald Home's entry at Alliance Impériale]