The original man behind the mask of Boba Fett, Jeremy Bulloch, passed away today. This is our tribute to the man and the legend. The actor inspired the start of the Boba Fett Fan Club and we were fortunate to work with him since the beginning in 1996 through to this day. Born on February 16, 1945, he was 75 years old.<\/p>\n
Jeremy portrayed Boba Fett in “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi,” along with other actors and stuntmen<\/a>. He set the tone and the stance, inspired by Clint Eastwood’s “A Fistful of Dollars” less-is-more approach. Jeremy also had an unmasked cameo as Lieutenant Sheckil in “The Empire Strikes Back” and Captain Jeremoch Colton in “Revenge of the Sith.”<\/p>\n In the early years of BFFC, we hosted Q&As with him and fans, sat at convention tables with him, and was his early online presence. He eventually spun up his own website, but we never stopped collaborating. Our anniversary “BFFC” designs for fans to have offline have been in honor of his favorite charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, raising over $3,000 to this day.<\/p>\n In 2015, after Star Wars Celebration, we did a video interview with him:<\/p>\n