Michael Pennington
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.
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- Born:
- Jun 7, 1943 In Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 48
- First Appeared:
- In the series No Hiding Place 1959-09-16
- Latest Project:
- Movie Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali 2021-03-09
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali | Narrator (voice) | 2021-03-09 |
| Movie | 1945: The Savage Peace | Narrator (voice) | 2015-05-24 |
| Movie | Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words | Narrator (Voice) | 2014-11-04 |
| Series | Endeavour | Professor Donald Bagley | 2013-04-14 |
| Movie | Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II | John of Gaunt | 2013-11-13 |
| Movie | The Iron Lady | Michael Foot | 2011-12-26 |
| Series | The Lost World of Communism | 2009-03-14 | |
| Movie | Florence Nightingale | Wen | 2008-06-01 |
| Series | Lewis | Dr. Melville | 2007-02-18 |
| Movie | Fragile | Marcus | 2005-10-14 |
| Series | State of Play | Unknown | 2003-05-18 |
| Movie | Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death | Narrator (UK version) (voice) | 2003-10-12 |
| Movie | Pyramid | Narrator (voice) | 2002-10-28 |
| Movie | The Dinosaur Hunters | William Buckland | 2002-12-30 |
| Series | Waking the Dead | Unknown | 2001-06-18 |
| Series | Trial & Retribution | Unknown | 1997-10-19 |
| Series | Silent Witness | Unknown | 1996-02-21 |
| Series | Dalziel & Pascoe | Unknown | 1996-03-16 |
| Movie | The Last Bolshevik | Voice | 1993-03-25 |
| Series | Between the Lines | Unknown | 1992-09-04 |
| Movie | Henry VI: House of Lancaster | Earl of Suffolk | 1991-03-29 |
| Movie | Richard III | Duke of Buckingham | 1991-03-29 |
| Movie | Henry VI: House of York | Jack Cade | 1991-03-29 |
| Movie | Henry V | King Henry V | 1991-03-29 |
| Movie | Henry IV: Part 2 | Henry Prince of Wales | 1991-03-29 |
| Movie | Richard II | Richard II | 1991-03-29 |
| Movie | Henry IV: Part 1 | Prince Henry of Wales | 1991-03-29 |
| Series | Summer's Lease | Hugh Pargeter | 1989-11-01 |
| Movie | The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 1987-01-10 |
| Movie | The Marlowe Inquest | Thomas Kyd | 1986-09-03 |
| Movie | Theban Plays: Oedipus the King | Oedipus Rex | 1986-09-16 |
| Movie | Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie | 1985-03-26 | |
| Series | Playing Shakespeare | 1984-07-29 | |
| Movie | The Mayor of Montemilone | Narrator | 1984-10-26 |
| Series | Freud | Carl Jung | 1984-09-14 |
| Movie | Return of the Jedi | Moff Jerjerrod | 1983-05-25 |
| Movie | Outside Edge | Bob | 1982-12-19 |
| Movie | Cymbeline | Posthumus | 1982-12-20 |
| Movie | A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter | John Lilburne | 1981-01-30 |
| Movie | Danton's Death | Saint-Just | 1978-04-23 |
| Series | BBC Television Shakespeare | Unknown | 1978-12-03 |
| Movie | The Witches of Pendle | Minister | 1976-06-19 |
| Movie | Mad Jack | 1970-02-04 | |
| Movie | Hamlet | Laertes | 1969-12-21 |
| Series | Callan | Unknown | 1967-07-08 |
| Series | BBC Play of the Month | Unknown | 1965-10-19 |
| Series | The Wednesday Play | Unknown | 1964-09-30 |
| Series | No Hiding Place | Unknown | 1959-09-16 |