Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

1943-06-07 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK Male 61 Known Credits

Biography

Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington is a British director and actor who, together with director Michael Bogdanov, founded the English Shakespeare Company. Although primarily a stage actor, he is best known to wider audiences for his role as Moff Jerjerrod, commanding officer of the Death Star in the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and as Michael Foot in The Iron Lady, opposite Meryl Streep.

Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-06-07

Place of Birth

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Known Credits

61

Known For

Acting

Also Known As

Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington

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Known For Movies

Known For TV Shows

Movie Credits

Return of the Jedi

1983

Moff Jerjerrod

The Iron Lady

2011

Michael Foot

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

1987

Sherlock Holmes

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

2003

Narrator (UK version) (voice)

The Dinosaur Hunters

2002

William Buckland

Henry VI: House of Lancaster

1991

Earl of Suffolk

1945: The Savage Peace

2015

Narrator (voice)

Pyramid

2002

Narrator (voice)

Fragile

2005

Marcus

Hamlet

1969

Laertes

Cracker: White Ghost

1996

Commander Gordon Ellison

Henry IV: Part 1

1991

Prince Henry of Wales

The Last Bolshevik

1994

Self (voice: English version)

The Tycoon

1968

Peter Bell

Richard II

1991

Richard II

Danton's Death

1978

Saint-Just

Cymbeline

1983

Posthumus

Airborne: The RAF at 90

2008

Narrator - (Voice)

Richard III

1991

Duke of Buckingham

Henry V

1991

King Henry V

Henry IV: Part 2

1991

Henry Prince of Wales

The Marlowe Inquest

1986

Thomas Kyd

TV Credits

Silent Witness

1996

Dennis Morgan (2 episodes)

Endeavour

2013

Professor Donald Bagley (1 episodes)

Father Brown

2013

Bishop Reynard (1 episodes)

Lewis

2007

Dr. Melville (1 episodes)

Waking the Dead

2001

Prof Alan Macintosh (2 episodes)

Raised by Wolves

2020

The Trust Voice (voice) (1 episodes)

BBC Play of the Month

1965

St Just (1 episodes)

No Hiding Place

1959

(1 episodes)

Trial & Retribution

1997

(2 episodes)

Playhouse

1974

John Lilburne (1 episodes)

Dalziel & Pascoe

1996

(1 episodes)

Public Eye

1965

John Sheldon (1 episodes)

Callan

1967

(1 episodes)

Theatre 625

1964

Wulfnoth (1 episodes)

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

E1A (1 episodes)

Between the Lines

1992

(2 episodes)

State of Play

2003

Richard Siegler (1 episodes)

Freud

1984

Carl Jung (2 episodes)

The Escape Artist

2013

Judge (1 episodes)

Summer's Lease

1989

Hugh Pargeter (4 episodes)

Playing Shakespeare

1984

(9 episodes)

Empire Warriors

2004

Narrator (4 episodes)

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