Roger Christian has shared the sad news that Bill Harman, responsible for building the original wooden prototype of R2-D2 and the Landspeeder at his garage at home, has passed away.
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Roger Christian had this to say about Bill in his 2016 book, Cinema Alchemist: –
I hired a carpenter – Bill Harman – who’d made all the props for Monty Python. He was brilliant – you could give him anything and he’d make it work. We had no money, not even enough to buy timber, but Bill had marine plywood at home, which he bent around the frame we’d built. In an electrical store, I found an old lamp from the 1940s and fitted that on top. I carved the little moving prongs on the front, and we stuck some aeroplane bits on and got him approved.
Team Jedi News sends condolences to Bill’s family and friends at this difficult time.
