He also played Fagin in Oliver ... best known as the voice of the evil Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious in the original 1980 version of The Empire Strikes Back. In the 2004 DVD release, Revill ...

Lucas had originally planned for him to be played by a monkey. This was documented in JW Rinzler's 2010 book "The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back", which includes a picture of the ...

Those four words from Darth Vader are the most well-known in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" and possibly the ... 80 films in the festival that will play through Sunday, along with ...

For Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), director Irvin Kershner ... who went on to play the emperor in Return of the Jedi (1983) and the franchise's three prequels - but he ...

appeared in two films for Billy Wilder and provided the original voice of the evil Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back, has died. He was 94. Revill died March 11 at a care facility in ...

Clive Revill, the actor known for voicing Emperor Palpatine in “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980), died March ... with Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg and played the fire marshall in “Robin Hood ...