My Life with Animatronics: Movies, Puppets and Beyond

From Yoda and Jabba - to Roger Rabbit and Wile E Coyote - Dave Barclay has been involved with some of the most iconic movie characters over the past fifty years. A second generation puppeteer, he began making puppets as a young boy and puppeteered with his parents throughout his childhood and into his teens. A chance meeting with Mark Hamill from Star Wars resulted in Mr Hamill introducing Dave to Stuart Freeborn, one of the world's greatest make-up artists, who a week later, employed Dave ...