Biography
With versatile and arresting if not beautiful looks, and a palpable presence and grace, the gray-haired actor has proven a consummate character player, and his dozens of credits in supporting roles on stage and in both television and film attest to his proficiency. The makeup used to age him to play a 100-year-old Emperor in "Return of the Jedi" made him quite unrecognizable, but the real McDiarmid could be seen in "The Phantom Menace". Taking …
LATEST CREDITS
All the King's Men | Reverend Pierrepoint Edwards |
Annie: A Royal Adventure | Professor Eli Eon |
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | Supreme Chancellor Palpatine |
Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones | Darth Sidious, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious |
Masonic Mysteries | Hugo de Vries |
Chernobyl: The Final Warning | Dr Vatisenko |
Elizabeth I | Lord Burghley |
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | Senator Palpatine |
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Arthur |
Great Expectations | Jaggers |
Karaoke | Oliver Morse |
Sacrifice | Rolland Callender |
The Awakening | Dr Richter |
Restoration | Ambrose |
Sleepy Hollow | Doctor Lancaster |
The Last King | Sir Edward Hyde |
Return of the Jedi | Emperor Palpatine |
Gorky Park | Professor Andreev |
Dragonslayer | Brother Jacopus |
Touching Evil | Ronald Hinks |
Selected Exits | George Devine |
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End | Reg Smeeton |
The Likely Lads | Vicar |
Heart of Darkness | Doctor |
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