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

Jedi Knights #1! One of the most iconic battles in Star Warshistory is between Yoda and Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith. That battle literally held the fate of the entire galaxy in the balance, and ...

I have Draw Four. I have Reverse ... you can be like” — and here he mimed the Emperor Palpatine shooting Force lighting bolts from his fingertips. He also performed routines about when ...

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

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

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.