George Raymond Stevenson (25 May 1964 – 21 May 2023) was a British actor born on 25 May 1964 in Northern Ireland, the second of three sons born to an Irish mother. His father was a pilot in the Royal Air Force.
He migrated to England with his family when he was eight years old, first to the Lemington suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne and then to Seaton Delaval. He graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at the age of 29.
Who was Ray Stevenson in Star Wars?
Ray Stevenson (May 25, 1964 – May 21, 2023) was a Northern Irish-English actor who played Gar Saxon in Star Wars Rebels’ third season and Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ revival. He played Dagonet in the 2004 film King Arthur and Titus Pullo in the 2005-2007 BBC/HBO television series Rome.
Frank Castle / The Punisher in Punisher: War Zone (2008) and The Super Hero Squad Show, and Volstagg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2011-2017). Other films in which he has appeared include Kill the Irishman (2011), in which he played mobster Danny Greene, The Three Musketeers (2011), and RRR (2022), in which he played the malevolent Governor Scott.
In the Ahsoka television series, he played Baylan Skoll, a character from the Star Wars universe. One month before Stevenson’s death, the figure was unveiled in a teaser trailer wielding an orange-red Lightsaber.
Legionary Titus Pullo (alongside Kevin McKidd, Tobias Menzies, and Indira Varma) in HBO’s Rome, Volstagg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Thor trilogy (with Natalie Portman), and Frank Castle in Punisher: War Zone are among his significant roles. One of his first film appearances was as the knight Dagonet in King Arthur (2004), alongside Joel Edgerton.
