Michael Pennington
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.
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Movies (33)
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
as Narrator (voice)
2021
1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
as Narrator (Voice)
2014
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
as John of Gaunt
2013
The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot
2011
Airborne: The RAF at 90
as Narrator - (Voice)
2008
Florence Nightingale
as Wen
2008
Fragile
as Marcus
2005
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
2003
The Dinosaur Hunters
as William Buckland
2002
Pyramid
as Narrator (voice)
2002
Cracker: White Ghost
as Commander Gordon Ellison
1996
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (voice: English version)
1994
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
as Degas
1994
Richard II
as Richard II
1991
Henry IV: Part 1
as Prince Henry of Wales
1991
Henry IV: Part 2
as Henry Prince of Wales
1991
Henry V
as King Henry V
1991
Henry VI: House of York
as Jack Cade
1991
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
as Earl of Suffolk
1991
Richard III
as Duke of Buckingham
1991
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
1987
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Oedipus Rex
1986
The Marlowe Inquest
as Thomas Kyd
1986
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985
The Mayor of Montemilone
as Narrator
1984
Cymbeline
as Posthumus
1983
Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod
1983
Outside Edge
as Bob
1982
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
as John Lilburne
1981
Danton's Death
as Saint-Just
1978
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
as E1A
1978
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
as Don Harris
1977
TV Shows (17)
Raised by Wolves
as The Trust Voice (voice)
2020
The Escape Artist
as Judge
2013
Endeavour
as Professor Donald Bagley
2013
Father Brown
as Bishop Reynard
2013
The Lost World of Communism
2009
Lewis
as Dr. Melville
2007
Empire Warriors
as Narrator
2004
State of Play
as Richard Siegler
2003
Waking the Dead
as Prof Alan Macintosh
2001
Trial & Retribution
1997
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Silent Witness
as Dennis Morgan
1996
Between the Lines
1992
Summer's Lease
as Hugh Pargeter
1989
Freud
as Carl Jung
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
BBC2 Play of the Week
as E1A
1977