Michael Pennington

Birthday:

06/07/1943

Place of birth:

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK:

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.



Credits

Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali (2021)
Narrator (voice)
1945: The Savage Peace (2015)
Narrator (voice)
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words (2014)
Narrator (Voice)
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II (2013)
John of Gaunt
The Iron Lady (2011)
Michael Foot
Airborne: The RAF at 90 (2008)
Narrator - (Voice)
Florence Nightingale (2008)
Wen
Fragile (2005)
Marcus
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death (2003)
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)
William Buckland
Pyramid (2002)
Narrator (voice)
The Last Bolshevik (1993)
Voice
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
Sherlock Holmes
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
Oedipus Rex
The Marlowe Inquest (1986)
Thomas Kyd
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie (1985)
The Mayor of Montemilone (1984)
Narrator
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Moff Jerjerrod
Cymbeline (1982)
Posthumus
Outside Edge (1982)
Bob
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter (1981)
John Lilburne
Danton's Death (1978)
Saint-Just
The Witches of Pendle (1976)
Minister
Mad Jack (1970)
Hamlet (1969)
Laertes
Degas and Pissario Fall Out ()
Degas