Clive Selsby Revill is a New Zealand actor, who is best known for his performances in musical theater and on the London stage. His Disney roles include the British officers in the video game version of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the narrator in Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, a singer for the song "What a Day in London" in Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, additional voices in 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure and Return to Never Land, the Sorcerer Blowfish in The Little Mermaid, Shedlock Jones in DuckTales, Shop Owner in Fillmore!, and Quon in One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing. He also voiced King Nod in the 1993 and 1995 releases of The Thief and the Cobbler and Palpatine in the original print of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
Revill was born in Wellington, New Zealand and attended Rongotai College. Originally trained to be an accountant, Revill but decided to change his career path in 1950 when he made his stage debut as Sebastian in Twelfth Night. He moved to London in 1950 and studied acting there at the Old Vic Theatre. He appeared in The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company's celebrated 1956–1958 season of productions in Stratford, which included Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and The Tempest. He went on to have such varied stage roles as Bob (narrator) in Irma la Douce, Ratty in Toad of Toad Hall, Jean-Paul Marat in Marat/Sade, Fagin in the 1968 musical, Oliver, and Sam Weller in The Pickwick Papers.
His red hair and distinctive Mr. Punch-like features often saw him cast as comic eccentrics in films, like Kaleidoscope, Modesty Blaise, The Double Man, Fathom, The Assassination Bureau, A Severed Head, The Black Windmill, Bunny Lake Is Missing, A Fine Madness, The Legend of Hell House, Avanti!, and Zorro, The Gay Blade. His television credits include The Adventures of Robin Hood, Columbo, Centennial, Wizards and Warriors, Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Twilight Zone, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Step by Step, Chico the Rainmaker, Hart to Hart, The Love Boat, Dynasty, and Babylon 5.
Revill is also a prolific voice actor, who has worked on animated shows, like Snorks, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show, Transformers, Pound Puppies, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Legend of Prince Valiant, Batman: The Animated Series, Freakazoid!, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Johnny Bravo, Pinky and the Brain, Godzilla: The Series, Rugrats: All Grown Up, and the 1986 film The Transformers: The Movie.
Roles[]
(Return to Never Land)
(The Little Mermaid)
(Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas)
Trivia[]
- His performance as Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back was edited out with Palpatine's main actor Ian McDiarmid filming the lines instead.