Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

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.

Acting

2020

Raised by Wolves

The Trust Voice (voice)

2015

1945: The Savage Peace

Narrator (voice)

2013

2013

2013

Endeavour

Professor Donald Bagley

2013

Father Brown

Bishop Reynard

2011

The Iron Lady

Michael Foot

2009

2007

Lewis

Dr. Melville

2005

Fragile

Marcus

2003

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

Narrator (UK version) (voice)

2003

State of Play

Richard Siegler

2002

The Dinosaur Hunters

William Buckland

2001

Waking the Dead

Prof Alan Macintosh

1997

1996

1996

Silent Witness

Dennis Morgan

1994

The Last Bolshevik

Self (voice: English version)

1992

1991

1991

1989

Summer's Lease

Hugh Pargeter

1987

1984

1983

Cymbeline

Posthumus

1983

Return of the Jedi

Moff Jerjerrod

1982

1978

Danton's Death

Saint-Just

1977

1974

Playhouse

John Lilburne

1969

Hamlet

Laertes

1967

Callan

Unknown

1965

1965

1965

Public Eye

John Sheldon

1964

Theatre 625

Alexander

1964

Theatre 625

Wulfnoth

1959

Infos

Full Name
Michael Pennington
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
6/7/1943
Website
http://www.michaelpennington.me.uk/
Also Known As

Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington