Kevin & Tracey Thompson

Feb 23, 2023 · 1h 2m 23s
Kevin & Tracey Thompson
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Kevin Thompson played the ewok Chubbray in Star Wars Return of the Jedi as well as stunt doubled for many other ewoks in the film. He's the guy who blew...

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Kevin Thompson played the ewok Chubbray in Star Wars Return of the Jedi as well as stunt doubled for many other ewoks in the film. He's the guy who blew the horn and destroyed all the AT-STs as well as Chukha-Trok in Caravan of Courage. He appeared in Blade Runner, Under the Rainbow and hundreds of other movies and TV shows. His wife, Tracey, is also an actor who has appeared in various films and TV shows, but today she is best known as the author of her husband's biography: "My Journey to Endor." The book is available now on Amazon (https://a.co/d/jabScgU).

In this episode we heard some of the stories including Kevin's moment walking onto the set of Return of the Jedi, meeting Ridley Scott and more.

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From IMDB:
Kevin is one of 6 siblings who always stole the scenes and attention since he was born. He performed in school plays and family skits while growing up. He attended Pasadena City College and Los Angeles Valley College studying cinematography while touring with The Original Harmonica Band and The Hollywood Shorties Smallest Sports Team. Along the way he started auditioning and landed a role in the classic sci-fi film Blade Runner (1982) delivering his first on camera line "Home again, home again jiggity jig, Good Evening JF". Later he would work again alongside Harrison Ford in the Star Wars IV-Return Of The Jedi (1983). He continued in the made for television movies as the Ewok Chukha Truk in The Ewok Adventure (1984) and Ewok Battle For Endor (1985). Kevin appeared in the 80's cult films Weird Science (1985), Amazing Stories (1985), Twilight Zone (1986), Night of The Creeps (1986), Garbage Pail Kids (1987), Spaced Invaders (1990), Looney Tunes Back In Action (2003) Epic Movie (2007)and Mirror Mirror(2012). Television brought Kevin into your living room with such shows as Married With Children, Growing Pains, Boy Meets World, Bob Newhart, Carol & Company, Ally McBeal, Charmed, Malcolm In The Middle and Dexter. A memorable moment for Kevin was being in the opera Tales Of Hoffman, sitting on the lap of Placido Domingo and his favorite role was starring as Micky alongside Carol Burnett. He has been published in the book "The Star Wars Vault" as well as several newspapers and magazines. Kevin has a few trading cards as the character Ali-Gator and his Ewok character.
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