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Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

Actor · Born 1943-06-07 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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Biography

Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (June 7, 1943 - May 10, 2026) was 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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Return of the Jedi (1983) — Moff Jerjerrod
  2. The Iron Lady (2011) — Michael Foot
  3. Raised by Wolves (2020) — The Trust Voice (voice)
  4. Fragile (2005) — Marcus
  5. Endeavour (2013) — Professor Donald Bagley
  6. Father Brown (2013) — Bishop Reynard
  7. Lewis (2007) — Dr. Melville
  8. State of Play (2003) — Richard Siegler
  9. Silent Witness (1996) — Dennis Morgan
  10. The Escape Artist (2013) — Judge
  11. Waking the Dead (2001) — Prof Alan Macintosh
  12. Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) — Hartley Culpepper
  13. The Last Bolshevik (1994) — Self (voice: English version)
  14. Hamlet (1969) — Laertes
  15. Between the Lines (1992)
  16. 1945: The Savage Peace (2015) — Narrator (voice)
  17. Callan (1967)
  18. Cymbeline (1983) — Posthumus
  19. Summer's Lease (1989) — Hugh Pargeter
  20. BBC Play of the Month (1965) — St Just
  21. Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) — Martin
  22. RSC Live: Richard II (2013) — John of Gaunt
  23. The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987) — Sherlock Holmes
  24. The Lost World of Communism (2009)
  25. Public Eye (1965) — John Sheldon
  26. Dr Terrible's House of Horrible (2001) — Priest
  27. Armchair Theatre (1956) — Adrian
  28. Theatre 625 (1964) — Wulfnoth
  29. The Wednesday Play (1964) — Geoffrey Cromlech
  30. Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death (2003) — Narrator (UK version) (voice)
  31. Florence Nightingale (2008) — Wen
  32. No Hiding Place (1959)
  33. Pyramid (2002) — Narrator (voice)
  34. Playing Shakespeare (1984)
  35. Freud (1984) — Carl Jung
  36. ITV Playhouse (1967) — Lancelot Wishart
  37. The Marlowe Inquest (1986) — Thomas Kyd
  38. The Dinosaur Hunters (2002) — William Buckland
  39. Outside Edge (1982) — Bob
  40. The Witches of Pendle (1976) — Minister