Who designed C-3PO's appearance in Star Wars?
Ralph McQuarrie designed C-3PO's look, basing the initial concept on the female robot from Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis. McQuarrie was the concept artist for the original Star Wars production.
Questions about C-3PO
Short answers, pulled from the story.
Who has played C-3PO across the Star Wars films?
Anthony Daniels has portrayed C-3PO in all nine films of the Skywalker Saga, in the standalone film Rogue One, and in the 2008 animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Tom Kane and Tony Pope have also voiced the character in video game appearances.
How many languages can C-3PO speak?
C-3PO is fluent in over six million forms of communication at the start of the Skywalker Saga. By the time of The Force Awakens in 2015, that figure has grown to seven million.
Why was C-3PO's memory erased at the end of Revenge of the Sith?
Captain Raymus Antilles ordered C-3PO's memory wiped to protect the Skywalker twins, Luke and Leia, from their father and from the newly created Galactic Empire.
What classic film inspired the C-3PO and R2-D2 dynamic?
Cultural critic Jonathan McIntosh has argued that C-3PO and R2-D2 were based on two bickering peasants from Akira Kurosawa's 1958 film The Hidden Fortress. George Lucas also described the pair in a 1977 Rolling Stone interview as resembling the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
What voice did George Lucas originally want for C-3PO?
Lucas originally wanted C-3PO to sound like a "sleazy New York second-hand car dealer." About thirty established actors auditioned for the voice, including Richard Dreyfuss and Mel Blanc, before Anthony Daniels received the part.