David Prowe, who portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, was announced as an associate director of Exeter City in January 2003 following the similar ‘appointments’ of Michael Jackson and David Blaine.   

David Prowse, then sixty-seven, was unveiled as an honorary director of Exeter City in January 2003. Releasing the news, City’s ‘co-chairman’ Uri Geller told the press that Mr Prowse was:

 “..a positive power now. There is a psychological value... you can imagine when the players of an opposition team go out knowing that Darth Vader is watching them. He fell in love with the club, there’s something about Exeter City that's inexplicable... it has a positive power."

Born in Bristol in 1935, David Prowse was an actor, bodybuilder, strongman and weightlifter who had appeared in A Clockwork Orange (1971) and as the Green Cross Man in a 1970s road safety campaign. 

After playing many other roles for television and cinema, he won worldwide fame as Darth Vader in Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983).

He died in November 2020 aged eighty-five and was a supporter of Bristol rugby.