Michael Pennington
Acting • Born 1943-06-07
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.
Filmography
65 credits
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
Movie • 1985
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Movie • 2003
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Movie • 1981
John Lilburne
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
Movie • 1994
Degas
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
Movie • 2021
Narrator (voice)
Fragile
Movie • 2005
Marcus
The Marlowe Inquest
Movie • 1986
Thomas Kyd
The Last Bolshevik
Movie • 1994
Self (voice: English version)
Return of the Jedi
Movie • 1983
Moff Jerjerrod
Hamlet
Movie • 1969
Laertes
Airborne: The RAF at 90
Movie • 2008
Narrator - (Voice)
The Dinosaur Hunters
Movie • 2002
William Buckland
The Tycoon
Movie • 1968
Peter Bell
Mad Jack
Movie • 1970
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Movie • 1977
Don Harris
Danton's Death
Movie • 1978
Saint-Just
Richard II
Movie • 1991
Richard II
Henry IV: Part 1
Movie • 1991
Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2
Movie • 1991
Henry Prince of Wales
Henry V
Movie • 1991
King Henry V
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
Movie • 1991
Earl of Suffolk
Henry VI: House of York
Movie • 1991
Jack Cade
Richard III
Movie • 1991
Duke of Buckingham
The Dolly Scene
Movie • 1970
Tom
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1987
Sherlock Holmes
The Iron Lady
Movie • 2011
Michael Foot
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
Movie • 2014
Narrator (Voice)
Florence Nightingale
Movie • 2008
Wen
Outside Edge
Movie • 1982
Bob
The Witches of Pendle
Movie • 1976
Minister
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Movie • 1986
Oedipus Rex
Cymbeline
Movie • 1983
Posthumus
1945: The Savage Peace
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
The Mayor of Montemilone
Movie • 1984
Narrator
RSC Live: Richard II
Movie • 2013
John of Gaunt
Pyramid
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Cracker: White Ghost
Movie • 1996
Commander Gordon Ellison
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Movie • 1978
E1A
Lewis
TV • 2007
Dr. Melville
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Dennis Morgan
Dalziel & Pascoe
TV • 1996
Between the Lines
TV • 1992
State of Play
TV • 2003
Richard Siegler
Callan
TV • 1967
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Prof Alan Macintosh
Trial & Retribution
TV • 1997
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Summer's Lease
TV • 1989
Hugh Pargeter
Father Brown
TV • 2013
Bishop Reynard
Empire Warriors
TV • 2004
Narrator
Raised by Wolves
TV • 2020
The Trust Voice (voice)
The Lost World of Communism
TV • 2009
Endeavour
TV • 2013
Professor Donald Bagley
Public Eye
TV • 1965
John Sheldon
Playing Shakespeare
TV • 1984
The Escape Artist
TV • 2013
Judge
Playhouse
TV • 1974
John Lilburne
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
St Just
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Alexei Turbin
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV • 1977
E1A
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Wulfnoth
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Alexander
Freud
TV • 1984
Carl Jung
Drama 61-67
TV • 1961
First youth
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
TV • 2001
Priest