Talk:Kenny Baker (English actor)

message: what was needed to play R2D2? did he pull lots of levers and press buttons to make things work? Kingturtle 06:33 9 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:I had also wondered that, it just looks like a simple robot rolling back and forth with blinking lights. It looks cute, but it is hard to see why a human was needed... =S
Was R2-D2 in all 6 Star Wars films and was Danny Baker in the robot suit in all 6. I'm presuming he didn't do R2-D2s voice. --Dumbo1 00:54, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background 

message: I don't have a source, but I believe "little" couples' children *can't* also be little.
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Well I went to school with one of his sons, and while he wasn't the tallest kid in the year, he certainly couldn't be classed as "dwarfist" at all.
If two people with achondroplastic dwarfism have children, each pregnancy has:
1 in 4 chance of a doubly affected infant, who will not survive, 2 in 4 chance of a child with achondroplastic dwarfism, 1 in 4 chance of non affected child, whose own children will also be unaffected.
And yes, in this case their 2 sons are unaffected.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.67.1.235 (talk) 00:25, August 24, 2007 (UTC) 
Hi, I went to school with one of his sons as well !!  Did you go to Little Reddings?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.205.198.22 (talk) 10:47, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Though both he and his wife have dwarfism, their two sons do not." 

message: It would be interesting to know how well Baker was compensated for his Star Wars roles.  R2D2 is a primary character but it seems like it would hard for Baker to negotiate a huge salary; since you don't see his face or heard his voice, he'd be more replacable than someone like Harrison Ford. ike9898 17:29, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  payment for R2 role 

message: His personal website gives his year of birth as 1934.  But this page here on Wikipedia gives it as 1924.  Which is it? Steven (talk) 20:58, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Born in 1924 or 1934??? 

message: Does anyone know what his wife's name was?  It should be included in the article.Mynameisnotpj (talk) 16:44, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Late wife 

message: Kenny Baker was apparently recovering in hospital on Wednesday night (9/4/08) after being struck by a mystery illness. Reportedly became ill as he was returning to England from his holiday in America. - Woogyman (talk) 14:59, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: BBC attests this as being asthma related, can someone add to article please? I'll do it if it's not here soonish. Scanna (talk) 22:33, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recovering in hospital? 

message: According to this German website he died yesterday. --Havelbaude (talk) 09:45, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently the website is wrong, since Baker is "a lot better" (but still in hospital) today . — PDD 11:49, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death 

message: Removed information saying he will not appear in Clone Wars. It's a CG film. NO ONE will be appearing in Clone Wars. 67.86.17.13 (talk) 02:22, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Sheila Allen (English actress) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 09:14, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: It seems to be a recurring trend on poorly written Wikipedia articles that: where clauses that should have been connected by commas or semicolons, are instead replaced by periods. The fact that I'm saying this indicates that this page for Kenny Baker is no exception, so can someone please fix the "period problem" (Alludes for awesome alliterations!)? Thanks.
Wiki nol ege █[:]====▶• 02:28, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  There's too many choppy sentences! 

message: Hey, StarWars.com posted this when Kenny Baker passed away today.  It includes quotes from George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy. -- Gestrid (talk) 21:17, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote by George Lucas about Baker's death 

message: should we add the news of his secret son to the article?--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 19:37, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Is The Sun the only source of that claim? It seems like tabloid click-bait material. Baltakatei (talk) 01:24, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Secret love child