The Voices of Darth Sidious (aka Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine) Who is Your Favorite Darth Sidious Voice? Who Do You Want To See Next? For More Comparing The Voices - • Comparing The Voices Remember to Like/Comment/Subscribe
McDiarmid has the best, voice, look, and personality for the emperor and he played him really well. The emperor is my favorite character in Star Wars and that's why I vote him. He did awesome in the movies.
Ian Abercrombie did such a fantastic job in the Clone Wars I legitimately thought they hired Ian McDiarmid to reprise his role. “Our stocks will rise high!”
I swear, for how many times I've watched the original trilogy, Seth McFarlane is the voice I think of for the Emperor. "What the hell is an aluminum falcon?"
@@user-vd6sk2fu4v bro, who the fuck asked you? It's an awesome show loved by thousands. If you dont like it, dont watch it. Dont come commenting your bullshit to people who want to just talk about what they like.
Ian McDiarmid is a fantastic actor for the Emperor, and no one quite gets it like he did, but the actors for Sidious in the Clone Wars were pretty good, in my opinion
@@metoo6247 “Gospel or Canon, as we refer to it, includes the screenplays, the films, the radio dramas and the novelizations. These works spin out of George Lucas' original stories, the rest are created by other writers. However between us, we've read everything and much of it is taken into account in the overall continuity." - Sue Rostoni, Lucas Books and Lucas Licensing Managing Editor and Allan Kausch Continuity Editor for Lucasfilm, Star Wars Insider 23 Fall of 1994 "Continuity has been the supreme commandment at Lucasfilm for Shadows and all its Star Wars projects. The company had made the decision to not only expand its universe but have it unfold as a seamless chronicle. Whether a new star system is explored in a novel or a scene is set in ancient Jedi days from a comic series, nothing can contradict the history or logic of what has gone before. To keep it all straight there is 'The Canon', a timeline of major events and lifespan of main characters prepared by the continuity editors of Lucasfilm and considered the in-house bible of the Star Wars universe." - Mark Cotta Vaz, The Secrets of Shadows of the Empire, 1996 “Everyone in the content-creating galaxy of Star Wars has a copy of “The Bible,” a burgeoning canonical document (currently a hundred and seventy pages long) that is maintained by “continuity editors” Allan Kausch and Sue Rostoni. It is a chronology of all the events that have ever occurred in the Star Wars universe, in all the films, books, CD-roms, Nintendo games, comic books, and role-playing guides, and each medium is seamlessly coordinated with the others.””-Tom Dupree, editor for Bantam Spectra Star Wars books article from the New Yorker, Why the force is still with us, January 6, 1997 "Everything that (is approved) by Lucasfilm is official. No matter how small the contribution, we've added to the well,"- Peter Schweighofer, author for the EU, Star Wars Galaxy Collector magazine #1 by Topps, 1998 “According to Lucas Licensing Editor Sue, Rostoni, ‘Canon refers to an authoritative list of books that Lucas Licensing editors consider an authentic part of the official Star Wars history. Our goal is to present a continuous and unified history of the Star Wars galaxy, insofar as that history does not conflict with, or undermine the meaning of Mr. Lucas’s Star Wars saga of films and screenplays.’ Things that Lucas Licensing does not consider official parts of the continuous Star Wars history show an Infinities logo or are contained in Star Wars Tales. Everything else is considered canon.”-Sue Rostoni, Lucas Books and Lucas Licensing Managing Editor, in Star Wars gamer #6, July 1, 2001 “Basically, everything except those items marked with an “Infinity” logo (i.e. the Star Wars Tales comics) is considered canon.”-Sue Rostoni, Lucas Books and Lucas Licensing Managing Editor, Starwars.com May 30, 2003 “”Lucasfilm canon” refers to anything produced by any of the Lucas companies, whether it be movies, books games or internet. “Movie canon” is only what you see and hear in the Star Wars films”- Leland Chee, Continuity Database administrator aka Keeper of the Holocron for Lucas Licensing, Starwars.com May 30, 2003 Continuity vs canon) “Its pretty much the same-sounds better to say that we try to maintain the continuity of the universe, rather than saying the canon of the universe”- Sue Rostoni, Lucas Books and Lucas Licensing Managing Editor, on Starwars.com September 2003 “When asked if the G and C-levels formed separate and independent canon, Chee responded by stating that both were part of a single canon: “There is one overall continuity.”"-Leland Chee, Continuity Database administrator aka Keeper of the Holocron for Lucas Licensing, on Starwars.com August 4, 2004 “The concept of an expanded universe certainly isn’t unique to star wars. Many popular genre properties from Star Trek to Alien, release spin off tales that shed light on events not seen in the official narrative. But Star Wars EU is unique both in its size and its care which is in the narrative which is shepherd and organized and Star Wars the Expanded universe is official.” -Daniel Wallace, Author for the Expanded Universe, Star wars insider 101 May 2008
I like sam. His performance in battlefront 2015 was very well done. I feel he did a better job on palpatines voice in battlefront as opposed to force unleashed.
fly crap I hope that if there are, that Ian Mcdiarmid plays him. He said he wants to play Palpatine more often and they redubbed Rebels season 2 with his voice. I’d be very happy to hear him in clone wars
The Clone Wars creative team usually does the voice acting first when making the show so that they can sync the facial animation to the performances easier and more accurate, so Tim playing Palpatine would have occurred just before the stroke.
Nick Jameson doesn't get nearly enough recognition. He is absolutely great at portraying the professional politician and somewhat oblivious gentleman Palpatine as well as the dark and twisted plotter Sidious. They sound like two entirely separate characters, which is perfect, seeing how Palpatine wants the public to believe just that. For me, Nick immediately comes second after Ian.
Cept he pronounces his own job title incorrectly. Notice how Ian pronounces chancellor in this scene. The British way, not the American pronunciation of Jameson. Even Portman gets it right to match Ian in this scene (well, she sure tries at least). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B-w1SbkpzV8.html
Goombaic "No, for the hundredth time, that's that same stupid black bag! Mine doesn't have a stripe! It's like that stripey bag is mocking me... fuck you, stripey bag!"
"What do you mean they blew up the Death Star? FUCK. Oh, ****, ****, ****... Who's THEY!? What the hell is an aluminum falcon?" "Get your seven foot two asthmatic ass back here, or I'll tell everyone what a whiny bitch you were about Padamame or Pandabear or whatever the hell her name is... Oh jeez he's crying!"
Goombaic "Hey dummy! Gonna call you 'Darth Matt' from now on, as in, what do you call a guy with no arms and no legs laying on the front porch? Matt! Darth _Matt!_"
CatMaster90001 "Hey you're really looking into my soul there buddy. Seriously dude, what is it? Oh, is he going to try to kiss me?" _"Is my dad going to kiss the Emperor!?"_ "My god, this is really happening, get away from me you idiot!"
When I first heard Tim Curry's Chancellor Palpatine, as someone who has a lot of respect for him, I was kind of disappointed. But when he transitions to Sidious, it's a whole different story. His Sidious voice is terrifying. Although Ian McDiarmid's still the best, Tim Curry actually kind of pulls off the "two different characters" vibe and could actually be convincing in hiding his true identity, whereas McDiarmid is clearly evil in everything he says.
Nathaniel Olds I agree. I am not a fan of his Palpatine voice, that one goes to Ian Abercrombie, however, his Sidious voice is a much different story, since his voice sounds extremely terrifying and evil.
Tim Curry definitely has the experience to pull off a character like that in multiple facets. He also played Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mozart in the stage production of Amadeus, Pennywise the Clown in It, Darkness in Legend, and even The Butler in Clue.
Sam’s voice is mega impressive to me since not only has he voiced so many other SW characters with more highly regarded performances, but he manages to do so while nailing Palpatine’s voice the best out of all the other imitators of Ian’s original performance. All while being a fairly young guy in comparison.
Sidious in the prequels was the best imo. He was like a demonically possessed man, with the I think it’s called polyphonic voice, a deeper tone and a higher tone speaking at the same time. And the eyes! Reminds of the Exorcist
Regardless of who is better, I think it’s safe to say that everyone had fun going back and forth between the well meaning politician facade and the menacing puppet master. Well except Clive I guess...
1 Ian McDiarmid: He will always be Palpatine 2 Ian Abercrombie: the best actor to voice Palpatine 3 Sam Witwer: Better as Darth Maul 4 Seth Macfarlene: Just hilarious
I loved Abercrombie, simply because his "Palpatine" voice was genuinely endearing and warm. I always thought McDiarmid was tad obviously sinister, even when playing the Chancellor. With Abercrombie, though, I could genuinely see how people could be fooled into thinking Palpatine was just a kindly Chancellor trying his best to end the war with as little bloodshed as possible.
+Wolf6119 Except that McDiarmid's character was a bit more subtle in terms of actions, Abercrombie's was obviously fishy in the show and essentially was walking around with a, "I'm up to no good sign," but the writers just made everyone too stupid to notice.
+Wolf6119 It is sad that Abercrombie died. However when Curry took over and with the episodes how serious they got such as when Ahsoka leaves the order it was almost perfect that Curry was voicing. To me it showed that Palpatine was giving up the persona of being nice because the Jedi were already falling to the Dark Side and could no longer notice or do anything to stop him.
Derrace Simmons He does a great impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger too. Have a listen to the RebelForce Radio movie commentary podcasts he did, they're very entertaining.
He also does an impressive Christopher Walken. One of the funniest things I've ever heard is when Sam Witwer did a livestream of playing Skyrim. He made his character look like Conan and did all his dialog in his Arnold voice, but his inner monologue when he read books and such was Christopher Walken... It was hilarious. XD
RIP Ian Abercrombie🥺! He was in some great episodes of The Twilight Zone and sounds completely different. His Sidious/Palpatine is spot on. I wonder if Ian McDiarmid has ever acknowledged Abercrombie’s performance? Honestly, it comes down to McDiarmid, Abercrombie, and Sam Witwer for me. Tim Curry just sounds like Tim Curry doing his best Palpatine and Nick Jameson impression which honesty didn’t sound like Palpatine enough to me anyways. They do fine performances but the masters will always be McDiarmid and Abercrombie in my books.
Personally grew up with the original cuts of empire and Clive revills voice definitely carries that weight of mysterious old wizard feel lol. Very classic as well and would prefer to see this than Ian in the re released dvds. Ian’s portrayal as the emperor is top tier but we should never forget our roots
From best to worst (in my opinion, of course): 1. Ian McDiarmid - Classic Emperor. The way he played the role in Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith was great. 2. Ian Abercrombie - Possibly the best Chancellor Palpatine, and does a great pre-disfigured Darth Sidious. I especially liked his dialogue when he confronted Darth Maul in Season 5 of The Clone Wars: "Remember the first and only reality of the Sith: there can only be two. And you are no longer my apprentice; you have been REPLACED." Pure gold. 3. Sam Witwer - Goes back to the ROTJ-style Emperor performance, and does it pretty well. 4. Tim Curry - Not gonna lie, I'm not really feeling his Palpatine, especially compared to Abercrombie's. His Darth Sidious is pretty damn good, though. 5. Seth MacFarlane - I'm not the biggest fan of MacFarlane (I hate Family Guy), but I have to admit his Emperor was hilarious in Robot Chicken. I don't give him as much credence as the more serious voice actors, though. 6. Nick Jameson - Meh 7. Trevor Devall - Meh 8. Robert Martin Klein - Meh 9. Clive Revill - Some of you might be mad at me for putting him last since he's the original Emperor, but he does absolutely nothing for me. His portrayal is nothing AT ALL like how the character ended up in Return of the Jedi, which was a much more memorable performance.
That vocal effect they put on Ian McDiarmid's voice when he says,"Henceforth! You will be known as Darth *inhale* Vader."(1:40) Gets me every time. Star Wars has the best audio.
Oh wow, I didn't know it was the same actor in episode 6 who did Palpatine in episode 1-3 as well. That's really cool. Hat's off to Lucas for getting him back.
+Waifu Rider~ Ian MacDirmond was about 30 when he did Return of the Jedi and he reprized the role when he was nearing his 60s. I actually enjoyed him more in Return of the Jedi than the prequels. He was much more arrogant and condescending, especially with that mock sympathetic tone in his voice which hides a more darker part of his personality.
You're technically half right. I am half blind but don't let that stop you from discrediting me for having a fucking opinion. I've only been a fan of Star Wars all my goddamn life.
Ya it was awesome how it worked out. He was young in the original trilogy and when Lucas started shooting episode 1 he was the perfect age to play The Chancellor.
Favorite? Ian McDiarmid, definitely. And not just because he was the first. 1:35 to 1:53... you just can't beat that. And he had such a wide vocal range. He could switch from tenor to a raspy baritone to a sonorous basso all in one scene. What a fantastically dynamic voice! I was surprised to see that Tim Curry did the voice. Not bad! Thanks for the upload. Edit: too bad this didn't include where we was talking to Luke. That was some of his best.
If Disney is smart they would do a Palpatine movie before its too late. Ian is 72, if they jump on this very soon its doable. Disney needs to start thinking not about what will make us the most money right now, but what can stuff can we only do if we do it right now.
I would really enjoy it if they were to make a Darth Plageus movie. Officially, the book is Legends, but the Darth Plagues character is canon per mention in Episode III RotS. I think it would be interesting to see Plagues brought to the screen with a young Palpatine, acting as a backstory to the up and coming Sith Lord who would impact the next 6+ movies. Like Rogue One, it would set the stage for Ep. 1 (and part of it would occur simultaneously with it). Also, it would be cool to see a movie set deeply in the Sith lore, and perhaps throw light onto their perspective.
You know? Tim Curry didn't do half bad voicing Darth sidious, although it did throw me off when he was in his Palpatine persona. -I know they're the same- but he did great capturing the sinister voice of sidious, just a shame the previous actor had to die as he caught the more classic feel.
It was a stylistic choice. Ian can still do the 80s Emperor voice, he & George decided on the different direction in the Prequels to reflect Palpatine being 23 years younger, the same reason his face was made puffier. Ian did it again with Rise of Skywalker by giving Sidious more of a withered, raspy growl.
Criss Cross I already knew that, and I could picture that, since all he'd need to do is talk with a slight growl in his voice and a British accent. But thanks anyway.
For someone who grew up in the post prequel era I have to say Revill is very underrated with the air of mystery he brings. I like to imagine his voice being retconned to be Darth Plagueis's voice.
Why didn't they just use Sam Witner for the last TCW episodes? He was on the show as Maul anyway. Curry did a good job, but they really didn't need to bring in someone new.
Tim Curry is A LEGEND within certain circles. If I were in charge of casting and someone told me Curry was available I'd jump at that chance like a Cheetah on a baby gazelle! To be fair I'm A HUGE fan of Sam Witwer as well. Honestly I don't think they could have gone wrong after the unfortunate passing of Abercrombie to go with Curry or Witwer. That's just a win/win for casting either way.
Ian Abercrombie was terrific. For now, Sam Witwer is the best to voice the character. Seth MacFarlane is still absolutely hilarious as parody Palpatine, though.
+CHASEMARC Palpatine: Commanda Cody! The time has come... Execute orda 69! WAIT NO! Cody: Yes my lord. takes of cloths Palpatine: noooooo... noooooooooo! NOOOOOOOOOOO!
I really like Tim Curry's. Especially for all the hooded scenes. And Sam Witwer's is perfect, and it's even funnier when he's doing scenes with himself as other characters.
Since Tim Curry's most famous role was Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror, I can't help but picture the emperor singing and dancing around in women's lingerie.
1:34 This Sidious voice was truly the embodiment of sinister evilness that always horrified me as a kid. The raspiness and near demonic, deep droning of his voice and breathing, especially when he said "Vader" and "rise", was bone-chilling. Incredible voice acting and editing.
What??? How in the world did this get so many likes? Witwear's emperor is nothing more than an average fan imitation far from being an actual serious Emperor voice that could go in a serious star wars movie or TV show, and Deval is not even an imitation, its a just a comedy skit that doesn't even sound like the emperor! Meanwhile you have Abercrombie and Curry doing the most serious and creepy versions of the empereror next to McDiarmid and with very good Palpatines as well and you put them after a tacky fan voice and a comedy skit voice?? What is wrong with you??? And what is wrong with the 162 people that liked your comment? How can that many people have such factually horrendous taste? Ugh, anyway, Its Mcdiarmid first, then Abercrombie then Curry, then Jameson then Witwer then whatever you like for the rest, that's the real list!
Ian McDiarmid is my favourite Darth Sidious/Palpatine voice. It’s amazing that he did such a great old man voice, when he was only 39 years old, in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, in 1983.
