Curated category
Film characters introduced in 1977
- Obi-Wan KenobiOn the ice planet Hoth, a young Luke Skywalker hears the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi. The Jedi Master instructs him to travel to Dagobah to find Yoda.
- Luke SkywalkerLuke Skywalker first appeared on screen in 1977, a teenager from a desert planet who wanted nothing more than to leave home.
- R2-D2George Lucas watched Akira Kurosawa's 1958 film The Hidden Fortress and saw a peasant character named Matashichi. That small, round figure became the visual…
- Darth VaderDarth Vader first appeared in 1977, and the question George Lucas put before his production team was deceptively simple: how do you make a villain feel like…
- Stormtrooper (Star Wars)Stormtroopers are among the most recognized fictional soldiers ever put on screen, introduced to audiences in the original Star Wars film of 1977.
- C-3PORalph McQuarrie painted a golden humanoid figure in 1976 that drew directly from the female robot in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis.
- Princess LeiaGeorge Lucas wrote and refined the Star Wars screenplay over several years, changing Princess Leia's identity multiple times before settling on her final…
- Balin (Middle-earth)The year Balin turned seven, the dragon Smaug sacked Erebor. Dwarves fled into exile while their father Fundin later died in the Battle of Azanulbizar.
- Han SoloHan Solo made his first appearance not on screen but on the page, in the novelization of Star Wars published in 1976, a full year before audiences saw him…
- GandalfGandalf the Grey, one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century fantasy literature, first appeared as a name borrowed from a list of dwarves in an…
- Bilbo BagginsIn the quiet village of Hobbiton, a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins sits at his breakfast table. He enjoys tobacco and waits for guests who never arrive until the…
- Droid (Star Wars)George Lucas first used the word droid in the second draft script of Star Wars, completed on the 28th of January 1975. The term is a clipped form of android…