You voiced some of the best known and iconic, including Alfred Pennyworth on Batman: The Animated Series and Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back. Your distinct tonality can also be heard in The Transformers, The Legend of Prince Valiant, Godzilla: The Series, The Frog Prince, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Return to Never Land, DuckTales, Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas and a whole bunch more, including a smorgasbord of video games.
You were, above all, a familiar face in feature films, seen in The Great Houdini; A Severed Head; The Double Man; Fathom; Modesty Blaise; The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes; Zorro, the Gay Blade; Avanti!; The Black Windmill; The Buttercup Chain; Nobody Runs Forever; The Shoes of the Fisherman; One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing; The Sea Wolf 1993; and what may be my favorite of your performances: the analytical Dr. Lionel Barrett in The Legend of Hell House.
Your television work was pretty prolific, too, with pleasing performances on The Adventures of Robin Hood (with Richard Greene); Star Trek: The Next Generation; Babylon 5; Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman; The New Avengers; Murder, She Wrote; Columbo; Centennial; Hart to Hart; Churchill's People; Murphy Brown; and The Law and Harry McGraw.
Your talent touched many lives and in ways that many are only now acknowledging. This is because you were an actor's actor, a man who could shine above others yet when need be, blend in. Indeed, few could do what you did, Mr. Revill, but then there was only ever one Clive Revill.
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