Veteran actor Clive Revill, who voiced Emperor Palpatine within the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Again, has died. He was 94.
In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, Revill handed away on Tuesday, March 11, at a care facility in Sherman Oaks, California, after a battle with dementia, per his daughter, Kate Revill.
Born on April 18 1930, in Wellington, New Zealand, Revill skilled initially to be an accountant earlier than deciding to pursue a profession in appearing. He made his stage debut in 1950 in a manufacturing of Twelfth Night time earlier than transferring to London to review appearing on the Previous Vic Theatre. Revill appeared in a number of Shakespeare productions, together with Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and The Tempest.
He made his Broadway debut in 1952, taking part in Sam Weller in The Pickwick Papers. He additionally performed Fagin in Oliver!, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Revill additionally acquired a Tony nomination for Greatest Featured Actor in a Musical for his half in Irma La Douce.
On display screen, Revill featured in lots of British movies all through the Sixties and Seventies, together with Kaleidoscope (1966), The Double Man (1967), and A Severed Head (1970). He additionally starred alongside Laurence Olivier within the 1965 movie Bunny Lake Is Lacking. Revill made his U.S. movie debut in A Positive Insanity in 1966.
He’s maybe greatest referred to as the voice of the evil Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious within the unique 1980 model of The Empire Strikes Again. Within the 2004 DVD launch, Revill’s voice was changed by Ian McDiarmid, who had taken over the position for Return of the Jedi and subsequent Star Wars films.
Revill additionally had a lot of tv credit, showing within the likes of Columbo, Dynasty, Magnum, P.I., The Love Boat, Remington Steele, Homicide, She Wrote, Newhart, MacGyver, and Star Trek: The Subsequent Era.
He additionally voiced Alfred Pennyworth within the first three episodes of Batman: The Animated Sequence, in addition to characters in DuckTales, The Transformers, Johnny Bravo, Pinky and the Mind, and extra.
His closing on-screen position got here within the 2016 Spanish comedy-drama movie The Queen of Spain.