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Lando Calrissian, a fictional character in the Star
Wars universe, is a former smuggler and friend of Han Solo who owns and
runs a floating city and Tibanna Gas Mine on the planet Bespin. After betraying Solo
when threatened by Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back, Calrissian joins the Rebel Alliance and, in Return of the
Jedi, rescues Solo and leads the Rebel starfighter fleet (in the Millennium Falcon previously owned by him) into the Death Star to destroy the massive space station.
Lando Calrissian was the only character in the original Star Wars trilogy to be overtly played by an African-American actor, Billy Dee Williams (though James Earl
Jones supplied the voice of Darth Vader). Lucas was heavily criticised
for this perceived omission (and indeed his policy of using ethnic dialects to identify classes of characters, such as giving
some - though not all - senior Imperial officers British accents and
all the Neimoidians an Asian accent).
- See also: Star Wars
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