Michael Pennington

Actor Jun 7 (age 82) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK 1959–2021 (62 year career)

6.3 avg rating

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.

Known For

Film

Return of the Jedi

Moff Jerjerrod

Film

The Iron Lady

Michael Foot

Film

Fragile

Marcus

Film

The Last Bolshevik

Self (voice: English version)

Film

1945: The Savage Peace

Narrator (voice)

Film

Raised by Wolves

The Trust Voice (voice)

Film

Summer's Lease

Hugh Pargeter

Film

Hamlet

Laertes

Filmography

Acting (64)

Movies (38)

Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali

2021

as Narrator (voice)

6.0

1945: The Savage Peace

2015

as Narrator (voice)

7.5

Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words

as Narrator (Voice)

RSC Live: Richard II

as John of Gaunt

The Iron Lady

as Michael Foot

Florence Nightingale

as Wen

Airborne: The RAF at 90

2008

as Narrator - (Voice)

Fragile

2005

as Marcus

6.5

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

2003

as Narrator (UK version) (voice)

The Dinosaur Hunters

as William Buckland

Pyramid

as Narrator (voice)

Cracker: White Ghost

as Commander Gordon Ellison

7.0

The Last Bolshevik

1994

as Self (voice: English version)

7.3

Degas and Pissario Fall Out

1994

as Degas

Henry VI: House of York

1991

as Jack Cade

Henry VI: House of Lancaster

1991

as Earl of Suffolk

Henry V

1991

as King Henry V

Richard III

1991

as Duke of Buckingham

Henry IV: Part 1

1991

as Prince Henry of Wales

Richard II

1991

as Richard II

Henry IV: Part 2

1991

as Henry Prince of Wales

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

1987

as Sherlock Holmes

5.4

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

as Oedipus Rex

The Marlowe Inquest

as Thomas Kyd

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie

1985

The Mayor of Montemilone

as Narrator

Return of the Jedi

as Moff Jerjerrod

Cymbeline

as Posthumus

Outside Edge

as Bob

A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter

1981

as John Lilburne

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat

1978

as E1A

Danton's Death

1978

as Saint-Just

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

1977

as Don Harris

The Witches of Pendle

1976

as Minister

1.0

The Dolly Scene

1970

as Tom

Mad Jack

Hamlet

as Laertes

The Tycoon

as Peter Bell

Television (26)

Raised by Wolves

2020

as The Trust Voice (voice)

Father Brown

as Bishop Reynard

Endeavour

as Professor Donald Bagley

8.1

The Escape Artist

2013

as Judge

7.1

The Lost World of Communism

Lewis

as Dr. Melville

Empire Warriors

as Narrator

State of Play

2003

as Richard Siegler

7.4

Waking the Dead

2001

as Prof Alan Macintosh

7.2

Dr Terrible's House of Horrible

as Priest

Trial & Retribution

Silent Witness

as Dennis Morgan

Dalziel & Pascoe

Cracker

as Cdr Gordon Ellison

Between the Lines

Summer's Lease

as Hugh Pargeter

Freud

as Carl Jung

Playing Shakespeare

BBC2 Play of the Week

as E1A

Playhouse

as John Lilburne

Callan

BBC Play of the Month

as St Just

Public Eye

as John Sheldon

Theatre 625

as Wulfnoth

Drama 61-67

as First youth

No Hiding Place

1959

3.7