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

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

Actor Clive Revill, who performed the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars movie franchise has died. According to TMZ, Revill died earlier this month at the age of 94, following a ...

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.

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 ...

Ian McDiarmid almost didn't play Palpatine due to another actor's casting ... "That was about the only part of my face that was actually left. And, of course, it peeked out rather nicely from ...

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.