Declan Mulholland

Declan Mulholland
Declan Mulholland (right) alongside Harrison Ford in a deleted scene from Star Wars
Born	Thomas Declan Mulholland 6 December 1932(1932-12-06) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died	29 June 1999 England
Occupation	Actor

Declan Mulholland (6 December 1932 – 29 June 1999) was a Northern Irish character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, his first role was in the 1962 British film H.M.S. Defiant as Morrison. Mulholland acted as Jabba the Hutt in a deleted scene of the original Star Wars (1977). The scene was later placed back into the movie for the film's twentieth anniversary re-release in 1997 replacing Mulholland with a computerized Jabba the Hutt. He had a substantial part in the 1975 Amicus film The Land That Time Forgot.

His many TV appearances included the Doctor Who stories The Sea Devils (1972) and The Androids of Tara (1978), The Bill, The Onedin Line, To The Manor Born and Quatermass (TV serial). He died of a brain tumour in 1999.

References

• Star Wars Actors Database
• Declan Mulholland at the Internet Movie Database

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