Welcome to the official
Kenny Baker website.

Hello again everyone and thank you to all those new visitors to my website. I would also like to say a huge thank you to all those of you who have sent me e-mail messages of good wishes, and they really are appreciated, and mean a lot to me.

I have had a fairly quiet year, and when the sunshine has allowed I have enjoyed the peace and tranquility of my garden. I have done a handful of Signing Conventions here in the U.K. although I realise to my great sadness that I will not be able to revisit places like the U.S.A. and Japan where I would dearly liked to have gone again, if only to meet all the friends I have made in those two wonderful countries, and everywhere I have been fortunate to be invited to.

The Book! “From Tiny Acorns:
    The Kenny Baker Story”

My book is completed, thanks to my good friend, the author, and publisher, Ken Mills, and it should be available from the Printers before the end of November 2009. I have arranged to do two book signings so far. The first signing is in my hometown of Preston at Waterstones on Fishergate, on Saturday 5th December and in Darlington on Saturday 12th December at the Wow Factor Shop. I'm sure there will be many more to come and we hope to spread the net wider in the new year. Any additional signings will be added to the website as dates are arranged.

A word from the author, Ken Mills.

I knew that there have already been countless books written about the Star Wars phenomenon, and by far more knowledgeable than myself, so I decided to write about Kenny Baker, the man, and his absorbing, fascinating and inspirational life so far. Most people know Kenny from the Star Wars period, but what do they know of his childhood, growing up adjusting to being different from other children. The book contains an excellent selection of photographs of Kenny as a baby, with his family, on stage with the legendary Laurel & Hardy as well as later in his career with Muhammad Ali.

I defy even the hardest of reader not to have a watery eye in places, where Kenny has had to face great tragedies in his life, but also I'm sure you will smile when reading of his amorous adventures in the sand dunes of North Wales! Through everything he has had to face in life he still remains a truly remarkable, loveable, and inspirational character…and yes the true facts about Kenny and Anthony Daniels are covered in the book as well as other stories and pictures relating to Kenny's time as R2D2.

The book can be ordered online through Write Stuff Autographs - and if you wish to have your copy personalised by Kenny, please send an additional e-mail to me at - kenmills@btinternet.com giving me your details. Please allow up to 14 days if you do require this added facility.

A few more words from Kenny

For all those who regularly and kindly enquire after my health - Im doing just fine thanks. I visited the specialist recently who was very pleased with me and I have to accept that at 75 years of age my body refuses to do what it could do so easily 20 years ago. I still enjoy my music very much and was delighted to see Bill Wyman's Rythmn Kings at the Preston Guild Hall in November. I met up backstage with my old friends Bill Wyman and Georgie Fame and we chatted till the wee small hours about the good old days and musicians we have admired and worked with. I would like to assure all my friends and fans that there is still plenty of life in me and I do still get chance to get out and enjoy myself.

I do hope you will enjoy the book.
My very best personal wishes to you all.

Kenny.