{"id":3345,"date":"2012-03-05T07:57:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/darth-vaders-real-dad-dead-ralph-mcquarrie-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T08:16:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:16:42","slug":"darth-vaders-real-dad-dead-ralph-mcquarrie-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/05\/darth-vaders-real-dad-dead-ralph-mcquarrie-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Darth Vader’s Real Dad Dead – Ralph McQuarrie Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Ralph McQuarrie, artist who drew Darth Vader, C-3PO, dies at 82<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0T. Rees Shapiro<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ralph McQuarrie, an artist whose paintings of a gold-plated robot in an otherworldly desert and an intergalactic sword duel between a scraggly youth and a black-masked villain helped persuade film executives to gamble on a young director named George Lucas and his visionary story, \u201cStar Wars,\u201d died March 3 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 82.<\/p>\n

He had complications from Parkinson\u2019s disease, said John Scoleri, co-author of a book of Mr. McQuarrie\u2019s art.<\/p>\n

\u201cRalph McQuarrie was the first person I hired to help me envision \u2018Star Wars,\u2019\u200a\u201d Lucas said in a statement posted online. \u201cWhen words could not convey my ideas, I could always point to one of Ralph\u2019s fabulous illustrations and say, \u2018Do it like this.\u2019\u200a\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. McQuarrie, for instance, designed the Samurai-inspired helmet and black caped-outfit worn by arch nemesis Darth Vader. (It was Mr. McQuarrie\u2019s idea to put a breathing apparatus on Vader\u2019s mask, so that he could survive in the vacuum of space, which led to the villain\u2019s raspy voice in the films.)<\/p>\n

Mr. McQuarrie\u2019s pens, pencils and brushes brought lush color, dramatic scenery and lifelike characters to stunning vibrancy in film classics such as \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind,\u201d \u201cCocoon,\u201d \u201cRaiders of the Lost Ark\u201d and \u201cE.T.\u201d<\/p>\n

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