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

New Zealand actor, Clive Revill, best known for voicing Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) passed away on ...

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

Actor Clive Revill, who performed the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars movie franchise has died.

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

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

That didn’t stop Star Wars fans from continuing to associate Revill with the role he originated. “They come up to me, and I tell them to get close and shut their eyes,” he said in 2015.

Clive Revill, a prolific stage and screen actor known to "Star Wars" fans as the original voice of the iconic villain Emperor Palpatine, has died, according to reports. He was 94. The actor's ...