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

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

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

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 ...

Clive Revill, who provided the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars, has died at the age of 94.

After Kershner gave him “a crash course on the events in the Star Wars universe,” he recorded three takes for that scene, in which Palpatine appears via hologram to communicate with Darth Vader.

In the 1980 “Star Wars” sequel, Revill’s voice was featured in a key Darth Vader scene where Palpatine speaks via hologram. His voice would later be replaced on the 2004 DVD release of the ...