Post-punk band The Scientists have announced the death of legendary drummer Leanne Cowie, saying they are ‘devastated’.

The best movies directed by British filmmaker Michael Apted include the Up series, Gorillas in the Mist, and Coal Miner's ...

In “The Empire Strikes Back,” the now-celebrated 1980 sequel, audiences were treated to the first on-camera sighting of Emperor Palpatine ... the NBC sitcom “30 Rock,” said in an email ...

Clive Revill, the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back,” has passed away. He was 94 years old. His daughter, Kate Revill, told The Hollywood Reporter ...

The original voice of “Star Wars” villain Emperor Palpatine is gone. Veteran actor Clive Revill, recognized for his voice-only role in “The Empire Strikes Back” sequel, died on March 11 at ...

It’s the absolute, innermost line within your life and your spirit.’” In addition to Emperor Palpatine, he played other Star Wars characters in video games and was Alfred the butler on ...

Clive Revill, the New Zealand actor moviegoers may best recognize as the man who originally voiced Star Wars villain Emperor Palpatine, has died. He was 94. Revill died on March 11 at a care ...

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 ...

Clive Revill, who provided the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars, has died at the age of 94. Best known for his work as the Emperor in 1980’s Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire ...

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels was a direct analogy to Hitler’s ascendency in 1930s Germany.