Michael Pennington
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1943-06-07
Place of birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003Narrator (UK version) (voice)
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981John Lilburne
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
1994Degas
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021Narrator (voice)
Fragile
2005Marcus
The Marlowe Inquest
1986Thomas Kyd
The Last Bolshevik
1994Self (voice: English version)
Return of the Jedi
1983Moff Jerjerrod
Hamlet
1969LaertesAirborne: The RAF at 90
2008Narrator - (Voice)
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002William BucklandThe Tycoon
1968Peter Bell
Mad Jack
1970It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977Don Harris
Danton's Death
1978Saint-Just
Richard II
1991Richard II
Henry IV: Part 1
1991Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2
1991Henry Prince of Wales