The Phantom Menace, a veiled figure shadows all galactic happenings, exercising control over political systems and personal destinies.

Emperor Palpatine had innumerable plans in place ... the conflict between Vader and Palpatine would have been one of raw power. Vader was particularly daunting in this case. As Palpatine had ...

Clive Revill provided the original voice of Star Wars' Emperor Palpatine in 1980's 'The Empire Strikes Back'; Ian McDiarmid ...

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels ... this consolidation of power by Chancellor Palpatine ...

New Zealand native Clive Revill, a London theatre actor and known as the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in “The Empire Strikes Back,” died on March 11. He was 94. Revill’s daughter ...

In “The Empire Strikes Back,” the now-celebrated 1980 sequel, audiences were treated to the first on-camera sighting of Emperor Palpatine ... performance projected power without raising ...