Jabba the Hutt Now Works at a Library

(Images: South Wales Evening Post/Lucasfilm)

Assuming that Jabba the Hutt survived the Sarlacc’s digestive tract, where could he, given his professional experience, find employment? At a library, of course!

Toby Philpott, 67, was the operator of the animatronic Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi (1983). That fame gives him a lot of contract with Star Wars fans, but, he adds, “I can go shopping and no-one ever recognises me as Jabba . . .”

Mr. Philpott began his professional career as a street performer in Mexico. Then he was a clown in London and a puppeteer in Jim Henson’s workshop. It was from that contact that he secured a role in the third Star Wars film. Mr. Philpott notes that George Lucas treated him and his three colleagues in the Jabba rig as one performer:

"The challenge was working together so Jabba looked like one sentient creature, and not four guys in a tent.

"So we'd get George Lucas to address Jabba rather than us individually which did freak him out a bit at first."

These days, he teaches computer classes at the central public library in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

-via Houston Community College


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When my daughter was 4 she had a total meltdown when I tried explain daylight savings time to her. She absolutely refused to go to bed an hour earlier. Finally, I gave up trying to explain how it worked, put her to bed and changed the clocks. Next day I never said a word and all was back to 'normal'. Win-win, I guess.
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Pre-internet, my husband would change half the clocks and I would change half. But we rarely coordinated which half correctly, so some clocks were never changed and some were changed twice. Now, I don't even bother because the phones and computers are set automatically. I get the other clocks fixed sometime in the next couple of days.
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