Michael Pennington
June 7, 1943 (81 years old) in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2021 · Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Raised by Wolves as The Trust Voice (voice)
- 2015 · 1945: The Savage Peace as Narrator (voice)
- 2014 · Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words as Narrator (Voice)
- 2013 · Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II as John of Gaunt
- 2013 · The Escape Artist as Judge
- 2013 · Endeavour as Professor Donald Bagley
- 2013 · Father Brown as Bishop Reynard
- 2011 · The Iron Lady as Michael Foot
- 2009 · The Lost World of Communism as
- 2008 · Airborne: The RAF at 90 as Narrator - (Voice)
- 2008 · Florence Nightingale as Wen
- 2007 · Lewis as Dr. Melville
- 2005 · Fragile as Marcus
- 2004 · Empire Warriors as Narrator
- 2003 · Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
- 2003 · State of Play as
- 2002 · The Dinosaur Hunters as William Buckland
- 2002 · Pyramid as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as Prof Alan Macintosh
- 1997 · Trial & Retribution as
- 1996 · Cracker: White Ghost as Commander Gordon Ellison
- 1996 · Dalziel & Pascoe as
- 1996 · Silent Witness as Dennis Morgan
- 1993 · Cracker as Cdr Gordon Ellison
- 1993 · The Last Bolshevik as Voice
- 1992 · Between the Lines as
- 1991 · Henry IV: Part 2 as Henry Prince of Wales
- 1991 · Henry IV: Part 1 as Prince Henry of Wales
- 1991 · Henry VI: House of Lancaster as Earl of Suffolk
- 1991 · Henry V as King Henry V
- 1991 · Richard III as Duke of Buckingham
- 1991 · Richard II as Richard II
- 1991 · Henry VI: House of York as Jack Cade
- 1989 · Summer's Lease as Hugh Pargeter
- 1987 · The Return of Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes
- 1986 · Theban Plays: Oedipus the King as Oedipus Rex
- 1986 · The Marlowe Inquest as Thomas Kyd
- 1985 · Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie as
- 1984 · The Mayor of Montemilone as Narrator
- 1984 · Freud as Carl Jung
- 1984 · Playing Shakespeare as
- 1983 · Return of the Jedi as Moff Jerjerrod
- 1982 · Cymbeline as Posthumus
- 1982 · Outside Edge as Bob
- 1981 · A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter as John Lilburne
- 1978 · BBC Television Shakespeare as
- 1978 · Danton's Death as Saint-Just
- 1978 · Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat as E1A
- 1977 · It's Only Rock 'n' Roll as Don Harris
- 1976 · The Witches of Pendle as Minister
- 1970 · The Dolly Scene as Tom
- 1970 · Mad Jack as
- 1969 · Hamlet as Laertes
- 1968 · The Tycoon as Peter Bell
- 1967 · Callan as
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Alexei Turbin
- 1965 · Public Eye as John Sheldon
- 1959 · No Hiding Place as
- Future · Degas and Pissario Fall Out as Degas