Chapter 1-3 - Vader's Unexpected Visit - Shot 7

INT DEATH STAR - MAIN DOCKING BAY
1.Major Mianda - (Imp Cmdr 18) Black uniform, Black Hair, Left, Stubble - CCG image
2.MSE Droid – Black, small, Bottom Right
3.Giant Mouse Droid – Black, w/red stripe, mid Right
4.IMPERIAL COMMANDER 19 - Black uniform, Brown Hair, Big Nose
5.Moff Tiaan Jerjerrod – arm only
6.IMPERIAL COMMANDER 20 - Black uniform, Grey Hair, Older, Big Ears
7.IMPERIAL COMMANDER 21 - Black uniform, Younger
8.STORMTROOPERS

Please see previous post for explanation on the numbering of the imperials.

Chapter 1-3 - Vader's Unexpected Visit - Shot 6

INT DEATH STAR - MAIN DOCKING BAY
1.IMPERIAL OFFICERS - Grey uniform,
2.IMPERIAL COMMANDERS - Black uniform,
3.STORMTROOPERS
4.Giant Mouse Droid – Black, w/red stripe, mid Right
5.MSE Droid – Black, small, Bottom Right
6.Moff Tiaan Jerjerrod – walking through shot


As Far as I'm concerned the MSE Droids don't need specific identification just like many of the Stormtroopers don't. Some stormtroopers may require identification but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. For this scene they are the faceless army that they are meant to portray.

Below is a closer image of the Imperial Commanders and officers. I have numbered the characters in a line to try and save confusion. This has mainly been done to help with the next few shots.
The line on the far side facing towards camera starts at the foot of the shuttles ramp at Number 1 and continues towards the back of the hanger, number 9.
The other line starts at the foot of the ramp at 10 and continues to number 21 before the line continues into Stormtroopers.
The uneven numbers in the lines is likely down to camera techniques and what "feels right for the audience"

Chapter 1-3 - Vader's Unexpected Visit - Shot 5

INT DEATH STAR - CONTROL ROOM
1.CONTROL OFFICER 2 – Bottom Left
2.Lieutenant Endicott – “Inform the commander that Lord Vader's...”

Just that Chap in the background.

Chapter 1-3 - Vader's Unexpected Visit - Shot 4

INT DEATH STAR - HANGER BAY GANTRY
1.OPERATOR 1 - Left side of the gantry.
2.OPERATOR 2 - Operating first control panel.
3.CONTROL OFFICER 1 - Moves about, among the control panels.
4.OPERATOR 3 - Operating second control panels.

Pretty much three backs of heads and not much view of the officer. Not expecting much from this one.

Chapter 1-3 - Vader's Unexpected Visit - Shot 3

INT DEATH STAR - CONTROL ROOM
1.DEATH STAR SHIELD OPPERATOR 1 – Low helmet
2.DEATH STAR SHIELD OPPERATOR 2 - middle
3.DEATH STAR SHIELD OPPERATOR 3 – “The security deflector shield will be...”
4.Lieutenant Endicott – walking behind opperators
5.DEATH STAR SHIELD OPPERATOR 4 – standing in circular operating desk top Right


A continuation of the previous shot, adding a Lieutenant and another shield opperator
(Shield opperators 1-3 were in the previous post)

Chapter 1-3 - Vader's Unexpected Visit - Shot 2

INT DEATH STAR - CONTROL ROOM
1.DEATH STAR SHIELD OPPERATOR 1 – Low helmet
2.DEATH STAR SHIELD OPPERATOR 2 - middle
3.DEATH STAR SHIELD OPPERATOR 3 – “The security deflector shield will be...”

Again a fairly straightforward shot. While I don't know any of these characters names wookieepedia has a basic entry for one of them but he is only listed as "Unidentified Death Star II shield operator". If you know the actor who played any of these characters please feel free to comment.

Chapter 1-3 - Vader's Unexpected Visit - Shot 1

INT IMPERIAL SHUTTLE - COCKPIT
1.Colonel Jendon - Older, bushy eyebrows.
2.Captain Yorr – “Command station, this is ST 321. “

A fairly straightforward shot. I don't know either of these characters names or who played them. I just know that the captain looks very British! Drop me a line in the comments if you are any wiser.

UPDATE! : A bit of research led me to finding Sompeetalays blogs over at StarWars.com. He has listed these two characters from Deciphers Customisable Card Game as Colonel Jendon and Captain Yorr.

Source cards linked below:
Colonel Jendon
Captain Yorr

This is How it Works

Each screenshot will have its own blogpost Titled something like "Chapter 5 - Message and Gift - Shot 6" and will look something like this:

Here's the key for the screenshot
INT JABBA'S THRONE ROOM
1.RODIAN ALIEN - At machine, wearing hoth body warmer
2.Gauron Nas Tal - Saurin, lizard man
3.Hologram Of Luke Skywalker – Digital projection of the Jedi Knight
4.Saelt-Marae – Yak Faced Alien
5.This will usually show the chapter that the shot is taken from.
6.This shows the time marker for reference.

Anything in bold Capital Letters is unconfirmed. In this instance RODIAN ALIEN is unconfirmed as I don't know his name. Any text after the - is to help identify the character. Once a character name is confirmed, the post will be edited and updated. Confirmed character names are also linked to their relevant Wookieepedia page for further reading. Any suggestions on how to improve this system would be appreciated.

A Glutton for Punishment

I'm a Star Wars fan. I think I'm fairly clued up on lots of the trivia in the movies, but by no means am I an expert. I know the basic stuff like which planet got blown up in Episode IV, the slightly more difficult stuff like listing all the people that have portrayed Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the movies and I even know some of the really obscure stuff like what was used to create the image of the Emperor in the 1980 release of the Empire strikes back.

But the area I really struggle with is names. I've scoured the net for some kind of character list by appearance with images but to no avail. Wookieepedia is great if you know what you're looking for but trying to search it for "the black droid with wheels and eyes on top and a red stripe" won't get you very far.

After a while I started to think ah... crap... I'm gonna have to do this myself! Which brings me to this. A blog. Very simple to update and hopefully navigate. I'm using the 2004 UK DVD release of Return of the Jedi. Not everyones favorite film, I know, but as a child it was my entry point into a larger world and as such holds a special place.







Each scene will have screen caps taken at various points and each character in the screen cap will be assigned a name. Don't worry I will not be making up any names, they will all come from official Lucasfilm or Wookieepedia sources. Any names that I don't know will be be labelled as "UNIDENTIFIED REBEL PILOT" for example. There will be a comment section under each post to allow readers to fill in the gaps (relevant sources please, to try and keep this accurate.) I hope this can become a resource for other fans looking for the same sort of information.

As this is the 2004 version of the film, special edition characters had been added to the film and characters like Sy Snootles had been altered or removed. I am happy to include previous incarations of characters but I will need other users to provide a screenshot.

And for those of you wondering, the answers to the above questions are:
1. Alderaan. 2. Jake Lloyd, Hayden Christiansen, Christian Simpson, David Prowse, Bob Anderson, Sebastian Shaw, James Earl Jones, Andrew Nelson. 3. A womans face with monkeys eyes.