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Happy 74th birthday Mark Hamill

Mark Newbold
By Mark Newbold
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Many happy returns to Mark Hamill, who celebrates his 74th birthday today as he forges on in a career that started back in 1970 on TV in Headmaster, starring Andy Griffth and ran through roles in The Bill Cosby Show, The Partidge Family, General Hospital, The Texas Wheelers, The Streets of San Francisco and then the mega hit of a lifetime – the starring role in Star Wars in 1977, which propelled his career to even greater heights, starring roles on Broadway in The Elephant Man and Amadeus, a voice acting career without peer (most notably voicing the Joker for 28 years) and a seat on the Mount Rushmore of genre stars.

Many happy returns to Mark, from the team here at Fantha Tracks, and here’s to many more.

SourceMark Hamill
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in '81 and has been a presence online since webpage Fanta War in 1996. He is the EiC and Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and currently contributes to ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, Star Wars – Das Offizielle Magazin, Journal of the Whills and Starburst Magazine, having previously contributed to magazines Star Wars Insider, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, partworks Build Darth Vader, Star Wars Encyclopedia, and Build The Millennium Falcon, and websites Jedi.net, Jedi News, StarWars.com, Lightsabre.co.uk, and Wirezone. He is the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015 (hosting it four times), and is the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Many happy returns to Mark Hamill, who celebrates his 74th birthday today as he forges on in a career that started back in 1970 on TV in Headmaster, starring Andy Griffth and ran through roles in The Bill Cosby Show, The Partidge Family, General Hospital, The Texas Wheelers, The Streets of San Francisco and then the mega hit of a lifetime – the starring role in Star Wars in 1977, which propelled his career to even greater heights, starring roles on Broadway in The Elephant Man and Amadeus, a voice acting career without peer (most notably voicing the Joker for 28 years) and a seat on the Mount Rushmore of genre stars.

Many happy returns to Mark, from the team here at Fantha Tracks, and here’s to many more.

SourceMark Hamill
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in '81 and has been a presence online since webpage Fanta War in 1996. He is the EiC and Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and currently contributes to ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, Star Wars – Das Offizielle Magazin, Journal of the Whills and Starburst Magazine, having previously contributed to magazines Star Wars Insider, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, partworks Build Darth Vader, Star Wars Encyclopedia, and Build The Millennium Falcon, and websites Jedi.net, Jedi News, StarWars.com, Lightsabre.co.uk, and Wirezone. He is the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015 (hosting it four times), and is the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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