Hugh Spight

Hugh Spight was born May 5 1947 in South Wales Hugh was trained in ballet in his early life and went on to have a long career in dance working with many of the top dance companies in Europe He did some puppet work on The Great Muppet Caper and The Dark Crystal performing the stilt puppetry as the Landstrider in The Dark Crystal He would later do a similar stilt performance in Duran Durans Arena While working on The Dark Crystal he ended up also working on the Return of the Jedi set as both were filming next to each other at Elstree Studios Hugh would perform the Gamorrean Guard that takes Han Solo to Jabbas dungeon and the rebel alien Orrimaarko also known as Prune Face His name would be misspelled in Return of the Jedis credits spelled as Hugh Spirit He would do a few minor TV roles throughout the 80s and 90s most notably being in 5 episodes of Doctor Who Hugh often attends fan and comic conventions to meet his fans