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

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

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #2!Darth Vader’s relationship with Emperor Palpatine is one of the darkest aspects of the Star Warsfranchise, as it was a relationship ...

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 ...

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 ...

The original voice of “Star Wars” villain Emperor Palpatine is gone ... In the 1980 “Star Wars” sequel, Revill’s voice was featured in a key Darth Vader scene where Palpatine speaks via hologram. His ...

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels ... Skywalker into Darth Vader. “They’re a warning ...

Veteran actor Clive Revill, who voiced Emperor Palpatine in the second Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back, has died.He was 94. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Revill passed away on ...