Clive Revill, the original actor who brought Emperor Palpatine to life in The Empire Strikes Back, has passed away at the age ...

A "Star Wars" actor who played a key role in "The Empire Strikes Back" in 1980 died in a care facility in California.

Clive Revill, the Star Wars icon who originally voiced Emporer Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back, has died at age 94. The ...

Clive Revill provided the original voice of Star Wars' Emperor Palpatine in 1980's 'The Empire Strikes Back'; Ian McDiarmid ...

Revill’s lines happen during a short scene where Darth Vader speaks to Palpatine, who appears as a hologram. Revill said the Emperor’s now-iconic line, “There is a great disturbance in the Force.” The ...

Revill’s voice was used for a key scene in the film between Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) and Palpatine, where Vader speaks to the Emperor via hologram. He was eventually replaced with the ...