Rey was the main hero of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, but the franchise just explored the opposite possibility, revealing ...

Clive Revill, the actor who originally voiced Emperor Palpatine in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," has died. He was 94.

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

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise ... She took over the role from Return of the Jedi’s Caroline Blakiston.

Recruited to be an actor by Laurence Olivier, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, earned two Tony nominations ...

A "Star Wars" actor who played a key role in "The Empire Strikes Back" in 1980 died in a care facility in California.

His voice can be heard for only a minute in “The Empire Strikes Back,” but it provided the first draft of a character that ...

When 'The Empire Strikes Back' was released in 1980, it fundamentally altered the trajectory of the 'Star Wars' series. Within the movie, the audience was introduced to Emperor Palpatine for the first ...

One deleted scene even has Palpatine explain to Anakin how he would take direct control of the once-autonomous Jedi Council. The most important deleted scene dealing with the political fallout of ...

The veteran actor, recognized for voicing “The Empire Strikes Back” sequel, died at a care facility in Sherman Oaks, Calif., after a battle with dementia.

They would be used in the pivotal scene in which Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) communicates with the emperor (as a holographic ... play the character in Return of the Jedi (1983) and the ...

Revill voiced Emperor Palpatine in the original version of ... But the emperor did not appear in the flesh until the sequel, 1983's "Return of the Jedi," in which McDiarmid took over the role.