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Birthday: Jun 07, 1943
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie 1985
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death Narrator (UK version) (voice) 2003
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter John Lilburne 1981
Degas and Pissario Fall Out Degas 1994
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali Narrator (voice) 2021
Fragile Marcus 2005
The Marlowe Inquest Thomas Kyd 1986
The Last Bolshevik Voice 1993
Return of the Jedi Moff Jerjerrod 1983
Hamlet Laertes 1969
Airborne: The RAF at 90 Narrator - (Voice) 2008
The Dinosaur Hunters William Buckland 2002
The Tycoon Peter Bell 1968
Mad Jack 1970
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll Don Harris 1977
Danton's Death Saint-Just 1978
Richard II Richard II 1991
Henry IV: Part 1 Prince Henry of Wales 1991
Henry IV: Part 2 Henry Prince of Wales 1991
Henry V King Henry V 1991
Henry VI: House of York Jack Cade 1991
Henry VI: House of Lancaster Earl of Suffolk 1991
Richard III Duke of Buckingham 1991
The Dolly Scene Tom 1970
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes 1987
The Iron Lady Michael Foot 2011
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words Narrator (Voice) 2014
Florence Nightingale Wen 2008
Outside Edge Bob 1982
The Witches of Pendle Minister 1976
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King Oedipus Rex 1986
Cymbeline Posthumus 1982
1945: The Savage Peace Narrator (voice) 2015
The Mayor of Montemilone Narrator 1984
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II John of Gaunt 2013
Pyramid Narrator (voice) 2002
Cracker: White Ghost Commander Gordon Ellison 1996
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat E1A 1978
Series Cast Year
Lewis Dr. Melville 2007
Silent Witness Dennis Morgan 1996
Dalziel & Pascoe 1996
Between the Lines 1992
State of Play 2003
Callan 1967
Waking the Dead Prof Alan Macintosh 2001
Trial & Retribution 1997
No Hiding Place 1959
BBC Television Shakespeare 1978
BBC Play of the Month Alexei Turbin 1965
Summer's Lease Hugh Pargeter 1989
Father Brown Bishop Reynard 2013
Empire Warriors Narrator 2004
Raised by Wolves The Trust Voice (voice) 2020
The Lost World of Communism 2009
Endeavour Professor Donald Bagley 2013
Freud Carl Jung 1984
Cracker Cdr Gordon Ellison 1993
Public Eye John Sheldon 1965
Playing Shakespeare 1984
The Escape Artist Judge 2013
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