Anthony Daniels

Anthony Daniels (born February 21, 1946 in Salisbury, England) is an English actor who portrayed and voiced the droid C-3PO in the Star Wars films. He is the only actor to be credited to appear in all nine Star Wars episodic films, as well as Solo: A Star Wars Story, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and the animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
==Biography==
===The character of C-3PO===
During the production of the original Star Wars film, Daniels helped George Lucas develop the character, voice, and mannerisms of C-3PO. Aside from playing the fussy droid in all nine movies, Daniels has reprised the role frequently over the past three decades. He's donned the shiny suit for various promotional work, including hosting The Making of Star Wars; for appearances on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street; for The Star Wars Holiday Special; for commercials including Kenner toys, an anti-smoking PSA, and even a breakfast cereal based on the character; and for prequel tie-ins such as Star Wars Connections and The Science of Star Wars. He also voiced C-3PO in a radio drama based on the original trilogy; for the Christmas-themed Christmas in the Stars album; for the Disney theme-park attraction Star Tours; for the animated film The Lego Movie; and for animated series like Droids, Star Wars: Clone Wars, The Clone Wars, and Star Wars Rebels. He provided both narration and all character voices for the Dark Force Rising and The Last Command audio books.
===Other roles===
Daniels has a cameo outside of the C-3PO costume in the Outlander nightclub scene early in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones as a character named Dannl Faytonni. Faytonni can also be seen at the Galaxies Opera House in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. He later played the enslaved worker Tak in Solo: A Star Wars Story.Solo: A Star Wars Story
Aside from portraying C-3PO and Dannl Faytonni, Anthony Daniels also played numerous minor characters such as CZ-3 in A New Hope. The exact number of such characters Daniels played is unknown.
===Further Star Wars and C-3PO work===
He was the only cast member of the original trilogy to voice his character in all three episodes of National Public Radio's dramatizations of that trilogy. (While Mark Hamill voiced Luke Skywalker for both A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, and Billy Dee Williams voiced Lando Calrissian for The Empire Strikes Back, when the Return of the Jedi adaptation was recorded many years later, Hamill and Williams were replaced by Joshua Fardon and Arye Gross, respectively.)
Daniels contributed the foreword to the collected scripts of the Return of the Jedi radio drama, as their author, Brian Daley, died just as the episodes were being recorded. Daniels' other Star Wars writings include The New Wonder Column for Star Wars Insider magazine and a Legends comic-book adventure for C-3PO and R2-D2 entitled The Protocol Offensive, published by Dark Horse Comics.
In The Phantom Menace, Daniels did the voice work for C-3PO but did not physically appear in the movie, as the character was a puppet instead of a costume—a prototype version of the protocol droid controlled by someone else. Daniels controlled the puppet for 2002's Attack of the Clones, but all prototype scenes were cut, with the droid's first appearance in the movie being Daniels in costume. In this movie and 2005's Revenge of the Sith, he also dubbed the vocal tracks for some scenes that used computer-generated imagery.
Daniels was the host and narrator of Star Wars: In Concert.
Daniels has returned to voice C-3PO in numerous animated projects, including Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Due to his years of experience with the droid, Daniels was allowed to go through scripts before voice recording on The Clone Wars with Supervising Director Dave Filoni. During these sessions, Daniels was allowed to suggest changes to dialogue to ensure it fit with C-3PO's personality. To Filoni, such changes gave the audience a more authentic performance from a legacy actor.
In 2019, Daniels published an autobiography, I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story.
==Works==
===Filmography===
Year	Title 	Series 	Contribution(s) 	Notes
1977	Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope 	 	C-3PO 	
1978	Star Wars Immunization PSA 	 	C-3PO 	A PSA promoting child immunization
1978	The Star Wars Holiday Special 	 	C-3PO 	
1980	Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back	 	C-3PO 	
1980	Star Wars Anti-Smoking PSA 	 	C-3PO, Writer 	A PSA to stop smoking
1982	Return of the Ewok 	 	C-3PO 	Unreleased, filmed to promote Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
1983	Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi 	 	C-3PO 	
1984	Kellogg's C-3PO's cereal commercial 1 	 	C-3PO 	Promoted the C-3PO's cereal
1984	Kellogg's C-3PO's cereal commercial 2 	 	C-3PO 	Promoted the C-3PO's cereal
1985	"The White Witch" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"Escape Into Terror" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"The Trigon Unleashed 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"A Race to the Finish" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"The Lost Prince" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"The New King" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"The Pirates of Tarnoonga" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"The Revenge of Kybo Ren" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"Coby and the Starhunters" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"Tail of the Roon Comets" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"The Roon Games" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"Across the Roon Sea" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1985	"The Frozen Citadel" 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1986	The Great Heep 	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO	C-3PO 	
1986	George Lucas' Star Tours 	 	C-3PO 	
1999	Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace 	 	C-3PO 	
2002	Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones 	 	C-3PO, Dannl Faytonni 	
2004	"Chapter 15" 	Star Wars: Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2004	"Chapter 16" 	Star Wars: Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2005	"Chapter 21" 	Star Wars: Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2005	"Chapter 23" 	Star Wars: Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2005	Animal Icons: Star Wars Creatures 	 	Narration 	
2005	Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith 	 	C-3PO, Dannl Faytonni 	
2008	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	 	C-3PO 	
2008	"Destroy Malevolence 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2008	"Bombad Jedi" 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2009	"Trespass" 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2009	"Blue Shadow Virus 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2009	"Hostage Crisis" 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2009	"Senate Spy" 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2010	"The Zillo Beast Strikes Back" 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2010	"Evil Plans" 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2011	"The Citadel" 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2011	LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace 	 	C-3PO 	
2011	"Mercy Mission" 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2011	"Nomad Droids" 	Star Wars: The Clone Wars 	C-3PO 	
2012	LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out 	 	C-3PO 	
2013	"The Phantom Clone" 	LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles 	C-3PO 	
2013	"Menace of the Sith" 	LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles 	C-3PO 	
2013	"The Dark Side Rises" 	LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles 	C-3PO 	
2013	"Attack of the Jedi" 	LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles 	C-3PO 	
2014	"Escape from the Jedi Temple" 	LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles 	C-3PO 	
2014	"Race for the Holocrons" 	LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles 	C-3PO 	
2014	"Raid on Coruscant" 	LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles 	C-3PO 	
2014	"Droids in Distress" 	Star Wars Rebels 	C-3PO 	
2014	"Clash of the Skywalkers" 	LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles 	C-3PO 	
2015	"Exit from Endor" 	LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales 	C-3PO 	
2015	"Crisis on Coruscant" 	LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales 	C-3PO 	
2015	"Mission to Mos Eisley" 	LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales 	C-3PO 	
2015	"Flight of the Falcon" 	LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales 	C-3PO 	
2015	"Gambit on Geonosis" 	LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales 	C-3PO 	
2015	Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens 	 	C-3PO 	
2016	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 	 	C-3PO 	
2017	"Beasts of Echo Base" 	Star Wars Forces of Destiny 	C-3PO 	
2017	Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi 	 	C-3PO 	
2018	Solo: A Star Wars Story 	 	Tak 	
2018	"The Recruit" 	Star Wars Resistance 	C-3PO 	Credited in Part 1
2019	Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker 	 	C-3PO 	
2020	The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special 	 	C-3PO 	
2022	"Part I" 	Obi-Wan Kenobi 	C-3PO 	
2022	LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation 	 	C-3POLEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation	
2023	"Part Seven: Dreams and Madness" 	Ahsoka 	C-3PO 	
===Discography===
Year	Title 	Contribution(s)
1992	Dark Force Rising 	NarratorDark Force Rising abridged audiobook
1993	The Last Command 	NarratorThe Last Command abridged audiobook
1997	A New Hope Read-Along 	C-3POA New Hope Read-Along
2015	A New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD	C-3POA New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD
===Bibliography===
Year 	Title 	Format 	Contribution(s) 	Notes
1995–1999	The Wonder Column 	Star Wars Insider department	Writer 	
1996 	Return of the Jedi: The National Public Radio Dramatization	Radioplay 	Wrote introduction	Script by Brian Daley
1997 	Star Wars Droids: The Protocol Offensive 	Comic book 	Author 	Co-written with Ryder Windham
2019 	I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story 	Autobiography 	Author 	
2021 	The Wonder Column 	Star Wars Insider article 	Writer 	Special edition of the column for Star Wars Insider 200
===Gameography===
Year	Title 	Contribution(s)	Format
1999	Star Wars: Pit Droids 	C-3PO 	PC-3OC, iPhone
2015	Disney Infinity 3.0 	C-3PO 	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
2016	LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens 	C-3PO 	Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, 3DS, Xbox 360, Xbox One
2019	Star Wars: Project Porg 	C-3PO 	Magic Leap One
2020	Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge 	C-3PO 	Oculus Quest
2021	Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge – Last Call	C-3PO 	Oculus Quest
2022	LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 	C-3PO 	PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
==Sources==
==Notes and references==
==External links==
*Official website
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