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

Sheev Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious, was one of the smartest and most powerful villains in Star Wars. He was a ...

You see, all three of these men do indeed share the same fate in the end, not just in these opening moments, but later down ...

The Phantom Menace, a veiled figure shadows all galactic happenings, exercising control over political systems and personal destinies.

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

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to ... collapse of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader. “They’re a warning,” the ...

Recruited to be an actor by Laurence Olivier, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, earned two Tony nominations ...

Revill voiced Emperor Palpatine in the original version of ... In a scene from the "Star Wars" sequel, Darth Vader speaks with the emperor, who appears over a hologram and tells the Sith Lord ...

When 'The Empire Strikes Back' was released in 1980, it fundamentally altered the trajectory of the 'Star Wars' series. Within the movie, the audience was introduced to Emperor Palpatine for the first ...

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

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 ...

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