Declan Mulholland

Declan Mulholland
Mulholland alongside Harrison Ford (left) in a deleted scene from Star Wars
Born	Thomas Declan Mulholland 6 December 1932(1932-12-06) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died	29 June 1999(1999-06-29) (aged 66) London, England
Occupation	Actor

Thomas 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 Productions 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).

Mulholland died of a brain tumour in June of 1999.

Filmography

• H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
• As You Like It (1963, TV film)
• Mystery Submarine (1963)
• 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1968)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
• Great Catherine (1968)
• Guns in the Heather (1969)
• Naughty! (1971)
• The Ruling Class (1972)
• Theater of Blood (1973)
• Sex Through the Ages (1974)
• Brannigan (1975)
• The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
• Double Exposure (1976)
• Joseph Andrews (1977)
• Rogue Male (1977, TV film)
• High Rise Donkey (1980)
• Time Bandits (1981)
• Hawk the Slayer (1981)
• Much Ado About Nothing (1984, TV film)
• The Tall Guy (1989)
• The Rainbow Thief (1990)
• The Princess and the Cobbler (1993)
• War of the Buttons (1994)
• The Run of the Country (1995)
• The Pig's Family (1997, short)

References

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

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Name	Mulholland, Declan
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Date of birth	6 December 1932
Place of birth	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date of death	29 June 1999
Place of death	London, England