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

Star Wars just clarified how Darth Vader viewed his relationship with Emperor Palpatine, and honestly, it makes the entire franchise way more tragic.

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

and Palpatine, where Vader speaks to the Emperor via hologram. He was eventually replaced with the voice of Ian McDiarmid, who went on to play Palpatine in person, once the film was released on ...

‘There is a great disturbance in the Force,’ says the evil hologram of Darth Sidious or Emperor Palpatine to Darth Vader in a pivotal scene. This line was still much quoted to Revill, despite ...

The original voice of “Star Wars” villain Emperor Palpatine is gone ... Revill’s voice was featured in a key Darth Vader scene where Palpatine speaks via hologram. His voice would later ...

They would be used in the pivotal scene in which Darth Vader (James Earl Jones ... In addition to Emperor Palpatine, he played other Star Wars characters in video games and was Alfred the butler ...

Clive Revill, the actor known for voicing Emperor Palpatine in “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980), died March 11 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 94. Revill’s death after a long battle with ...