Jabba the Hutt was based on a renowned Film Noir actor. In case you’re unfamiliar with the name Sydney Greenstreet (which is entirely possible, since the man has been dead for 60 years), he was an English actor best known for his roles in two of the most famous Humphrey Bogart movies ever made, Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, wherein Greenstreet essentially played human versions of Jabba the Hutt.
For example, in The Maltese Falcon, Greenstreet played the coldblooded smuggler/criminal Kasper Gutman (appropriately nicknamed “The Fat Man”); then, in Casablanca, Greenstreet portrayed Signor Ferrari, an infamous underworld figure known throughout the city for his various criminal dealings, which incidentally included slavery, just like a certain obese space worm from the Star Wars universe.
I always thought they based Jabba on Whoopie.
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