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Clive Revill

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Actor 1930–2025 On stage 19521981

Clive Selsby Revill (18 April 1930 – 11 March 2025) was a New Zealand actor and singer, best known for his performances in musical theatre and the London stage. A veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he also starred in numerous films and television programmes, often in character parts. He was a two-time Tony Award nominee, as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Irma La Douce and Best Actor in a Musical for Oliver!. His film work also included voicing Emperor Palpatine in the original theatrical version of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and roles in Modesty Blaise (1966), The Assassination Bureau (1969), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), The Legend of Hell House (1973), and R…

On stage 7 productions, 29 years

1952 Mr. Pickwick Plymouth Theatre · Revival · directed by John Burrell 61 perf.
1960 Irma La Douce Plymouth Theatre · Original · directed by Peter Brook 524 perf.
1963 Oliver! Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Peter Cole 774 perf.
1967 Sherry! Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Joe Layton 65 perf.
1971 The Incomparable Max Royale Theatre · Original · directed by Gerald Freedman 23 perf.
1974 Sherlock Holmes Broadhurst Theatre · Revival · directed by Frank Dunlop 471 perf.
1981 Lolita Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original · directed by Frank Dunlop 12 perf.

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  • Sherry! appeared to have a worse fate in store: a death in Boston. But then Clive Revill agreed to take over as Sheridan Whiteside. “Clive couldn’t be ready for the rest of the Boston run,” said Lipton. “He said he’d join us in Philadelphia but that he wanted his own director and choreographer—Joe Layton, whom he knew. They came in as a p…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Cast: Elizabeth Seal, Keith Michell, Clive Revill, George S. Irving, Stuart Damon, Fred Gwynne, Elliott Gouldebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Irma la Douce . The main perfomers in the scene are Keith Michell, Elizabeth Seal, and Clive Revill. (Friedman-Abeles)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Clive Revill, Georgia Brown, Bruce Prochnik, Willoughby Goddard, Hope Jackman, Danny Sewell, David Jones, Geoffrey Lumbebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Oliver! Georgia Brown, David Jones, Bruce Prochnik, and Clive Revill in the “I’d Do Anything” number. (Friedman-Abeles)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Irma cost $175,994. It had a cast of unknowns-the English Elizabeth Seal, Keith Michell and Clive Revill and such young American performers as George S. Irving, Fred Gwynne and Elliot Gould. None of these names was likely to draw a large advance, but well before it opened, it had begun to move toward a profit. The film rights were sold to…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt

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