Clive Selsby Revill (born April 18, 1930 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an experienced character actor who has made more than 50 films and TV movies and whose work has ranged from theatrical blockbusters to stage classics. Among his film roles were two notable films for Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes in 1970 and Avanti! in 1972. He also played dour Finlay Perkin in the blockbuster 1978 American miniseries Centennial. April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Alternative meanings at Wellington (disambiguation) A view of Wellington from the top of Mount Victoria. ... Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906–March 27, 2002) had a career as a screenwriter, film director and producer that spanned more than 50 years and more than 60 films. ... The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 film directed and produced by Billy Wilder, and starring Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Avanti is a 1972 comedy directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews and Gianfranco Barra. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Centennial was a 12-episode American television miniseries that aired on NBC from October 1978 to February 1979. ...

Clive Revill has enjoyed his greatest success on the stage in productions like Oliver! (as Fagin) and the Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy Operas The Pirates of Penzance and The Sorcerer (in which he appeared in the title role of John Wellington Wells). He was twice nominated for Tony Awards for Oliver! and Irma La Douce. Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ... Fagin is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. ... Playwright/lyricist W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) defined operettas or comic operas in Victorian England with a series of their internationally successful and timeless works known as the Savoy Operas. ... The Savoy Operas are a series of operettas written by Gilbert and Sullivan. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Pirates of Penzance The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty, is a Gilbert and Sullivan comic operetta in two acts. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Sorcerer The Sorcerer is the earliest surviving two-act Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award® but is formally the Antoinette Perry Award is an annual American award celebrating achievements in theater, including musical theater. ... Irma la Douce is a 1956 French stage musical whose book and lyrics were written by Alexandre Breffort with music by Marguerite Monnot. ...

Revill has also performed voice-over work in such films as Transformers: The Movie and The Hobbit. He is one of only a few actors to appear in both an episode of Star Trek and a Star Wars film: he supplied the voice of The Emperor in The Empire Strikes Back and played Sir Guy of Gisburne in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "QPid". Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 feature film version of the popular television series Transformers based on the line of toys by Hasbro. ... The trip taken in The Hobbit in middle earth shown in red The Hobbit is a fantasy novel written by J. R. R. Tolkien originally as a childrens story in the tradition of the fairy tale. ... Star Trek collectively refers to a science-fiction franchise spanning six unique television series, 726 episodes and ten motion pictures in addition to hundreds of novels, video games, and other works of fiction all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the mid-1960s. ... The cover of the 2004 DVD widescreen release of the modified original Star Wars Trilogy. ... Palpatine (82 BBY – 11 ABY), often simply referred to as the Emperor, is one of the main characters and the foremost villain in the fictional Star Wars universe. ... Movie poster Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to the first released Star Wars movie, and the second film released in the original trilogy. ... Sir Guy of Gisburne (also spelled Gisbourne, Gysborne or Gisborn) is a villain in the Robin Hood legends. ... The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ...

External link

• Clive Revill at the Internet Movie Database
• Clive Revill at Star Wars Wiki
• Clive Revill at Memory Alpha