The first film in George Lucas's Star Wars sci-fi saga was released on this day in 1977,
Welsh connections to Star Wars;
* Richard Marquand, director of 'Return of the Jedi' was born in Llanishen, Cardiff.
* The full-scale model of the Millennium Falcon was built in Pembroke Dock by Marcon Fabrications.
* Andy Secombe, the son Harry Secombe, voiced the computer-generated slave owner Watto, in The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.
* The Church of Jediism, which is a religion based on the philosophical and spiritual ideas of the Jedi as depicted in Star Wars was founded in 2007 by Daniel M Jones on Anglesey. The organisation has over 20,000 members across the globe and was the most selected "alternative faith" in a 2012 census of England and Wales.
* Spencer Wilding from St Asaph played Darth Vader in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
* Mark Lewis Jones from Rhosllannerchrugog played the part of Captain Canady in The Last Jedi.
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