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Peter Mayhew currently resides in Texas, but was born in Barnes, England, UK. He was "discovered when has was working in a hospital as an attendant in London when he was scouted for Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). Sinbad producer Charles H. Schneer had seen him standing above the crowd in a photo - Mayhew is 7' 1 3/4" (2.18m) tall. Not too long after that he was approached to play a hairy 200 year old Wookie named Chewbacca.

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