Michael Leader

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    'EastEnders' Milkman Who Died This Week Was The 'Clumsy Stormtrooper'

    Michael Leader, the veteran milkman of Albert Square who died this week, was also the infamous ‘clumsy stormtrooper’, it’s emerged. Leader played the show’s milkman for 31 years, one of the longest-serving members of the cast. But he was also the stormtrooper who bangs his head on a door in George Lucas’s first ‘Star Wars’ movie from 1977. The scene has long gone down in infamy, after it was spotted by eagle-eyed fans, Leader cracking his head as he enters the control room where C-3PO and R2-D2