Clive Revill's journey in the acting world began in his home country of New Zealand, where he honed his craft on stage. He made his film debut in 1955 with the television movie Strike and continued to ...

Vader reliving of his Mustafar defeat serves as a brutal reminder of Anakin Skywalker’s fall, amplifying the tragedy of his ...

Emperor Palpatine infamously returned from a much more final death through the art of cloning, and the third season finale revealed that Gideon had been involved in experimenting with just that.

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

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Revill’s role in The Empire Strikes Back was relatively brief, yet pivotal. Before Ian McDiarmid became synonymous with Emperor Palpatine in later films, it was Revill’s voice—layered over a visually ...

Kershner had worked with Revill before, on 1966’s A Fine Madness, and felt he could embue the Emperor’s few lines of dialogue with the requisite menace. In later versions of the film ...

The three-day festival shines a light on work created by autistic media-makers of all ages and experiences with screenings, panel discussions, workshops and an exhibition of video art ...