Alan Harris RIP (1938-2020)

[fordcapri]

Very sorry to hear this.  He appeared in so many things, even a later episode of Minder.  What they are all failing to mention is that he played the astronaut in the opening titles of Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy TV series.  I met him a couple of years ago at the SHADOCON2 convention in Derby and we had a nice chat about Basingstoke, since it transpired that we both moved there in 1970!  RIP, a really nice bloke.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/alan-harris-death-star-wars-bossk-empire-strikes-back-boba-fett-tribute-doctor-who-a9312511.html

[spacecadet]

I saw an interview with Alan on a SHADOCON DVD discussing his career working as an extra including working on UFO and Space 1999. He came across as a nice bloke and compared with some of the other guests interviewed on the same DVD he had a good memory of working on various films and TV series.

His easy to spot as he must gone grey at a relative early age.

Here are some screen shots of him from Space 1999:

catacombs.space1999.net/main/chguide/chharrisalan.html

[fordcapri]

Funnily enough, I haven't watched his interview from that DVD yet (if it's the second one).  I shall probably now watch it later. 

I think he's in three episodes of UFO.  Kill Straker!,  Destruction and The Long Sleep (in the latter I think he's the guy in the car with Straker when he runs down Catherine Frazer).  He was literally immortalised in The Empire Strikes Back when he doubled for Harrison Ford for that scene in which he's frozen in a block of carbon, or whatever it is.  

[thewoodster]

RIP Alan Harris.