Liz Moore (sculptor)
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Having trained at Kingston College of Art, Moore first came to public notice when making busts of The Beatles in 1966.[2] The following year she sculpted the actress Sybil Thorndike and her actor husband Lewis Casson.[3] The busts were subsequently donated to the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead on its opening in 1969,[4] and now form part of the Garrick Club collection.[5]
Moore's best-known film credits include 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), for which she created the Starchild, Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Cromwell (1970), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Omen (1976) and Star Wars (1977), for which she sculpted C-3PO and the stormtrooper helmets.[1][6] In 1976, Moore finalised C-3PO's character design and the art department modelled the costume on the actor, Anthony Daniels.[a] Daniels said that before his role in Star Wars, the only science fiction film he saw was 2001: A Space Odyssey.[11] The process of making the costume and Daniels' fittings took six months.[12]
On 13 August 1976, while working on A Bridge Too Far, Moore died in the Netherlands in a road accident, in a car driven by special effects designer John Richardson.[1][13]
