Welcome to the website of Gerald Home.
Gerald was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and emigrated to Australia with his family when he was 16. He started acting while at university in Australia and spent 3 years as an actor/teacher before moving to London to study at the Drama Studio.
Since then he has had a wide and varied career: on the big screen he played Squid Head - Tessek and the Mon Calamari Officer in Star Wars: Episode VI - RETURN OF THE JEDI, and was a puppeteer on LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
His many TV appearances include CASUALTY, SCARLET AND BLACK, JENNY�S WAR, KEEPING MUM, HARRY'S MAD, TIME GENTLEMEN PLEASE, and two series of THE BOOT STREET BAND. He also worked on SPITTING IMAGE as a puppeteer.
In the West End of London he appeared in THE BLUE ANGEL for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Gielgud Theatre, in THE ARABIAN NIGHTS at the Arts Theatre and for a year in the farce NO SEX PLEASE - WE�RE BRITISH at the Strand Theatre. Other theatre work includes A CHRISTMAS CAROL in Oxford, THE WIZARD OF OZ in Exeter and national tours of DREAMS OF ANNE FRANK, SALAD DAYS and BELL,
BOOK & CANDLE.
In Wimbledon, London, where he lives, he has appeared in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT�S DREAM, ALICE IN WONDERLAND and in 10 plays at the Polka Theatre. Favourite roles at Polka include Dr. Livesey in TREASURE ISLAND and Moriarty in a new Sherlock Holmes play written by Philip Pullman.
He is still probably best known to many people as the original Mr. Muscle in the long-running series of TV commercials which were shown throughout Europe and as far away as South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Voice work includes voice-overs and readings for BBC Radio.
Three definitive articles about Gerald's experiences working on RETURN OF THE JEDI, written by Matt Glasgow, have been published on the SWNZ, Star Wars New Zealand, website. To see these articles, click onto the following links:
Part 1 :: Tales of the lost Calamari
- details of Gerald's earlier work, through to his RETURN OF THE JEDI experiences.
Part 2 :: 'Revenge of the Jedi' call sheets
- details of two days in 1982 when Gerald was on the RETURN OF THE JEDI set.
Part 3 :: The missing 'Revenge' dialogue revealed
- details of Gerald's un-used Mon Calamari Officer script.
Gerald has made a number of appearances at conventions and to support Star Wars fan groups. Of interesting note is the fact that he is one of the few
actors in all the Star Wars films to have played both a Good Guy (the Mon Calamari Officer) AND a Bad Guy (Tessek, Squid Head)!
For convention or appearance enquiries, Gerald can be contacted through [email protected].
For professional, acting-related enquiries, contact Gerald's acting agent:
SECOND SKIN AGENCY
email: [email protected]
website: SecondSkinAgency.com
Click here to download acting CV (MSWord document, 440kb).
Images from Gerald's acting career, in chronological order.
Click on the thumbnails to view the full image/groups of images:
