Michael Pennington
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
2003
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
as John Lilburne
1981
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
as Degas
1994
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
as Narrator (voice)
2021
Fragile
as Marcus
2005
The Marlowe Inquest
as Thomas Kyd
1986
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (voice: English version)
1994
Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod
1983
Hamlet
as Laertes
1969
Airborne: The RAF at 90
as Narrator - (Voice)
2008
The Dinosaur Hunters
as William Buckland
2002
The Tycoon
as Peter Bell
1968
Mad Jack
1970
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
as Don Harris
1977
Danton's Death
as Saint-Just
1978
Richard II
as Richard II
1991
Henry IV: Part 1
as Prince Henry of Wales
1991
Henry IV: Part 2
as Henry Prince of Wales
1991
Henry V
as King Henry V
1991
TV Appearances
Lewis
as Dr. Melville
2007
Silent Witness
as Dennis Morgan
1996
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Between the Lines
1992
State of Play
as Richard Siegler
2003
Callan
1967
Waking the Dead
as Prof Alan Macintosh
2001
Trial & Retribution
1997
No Hiding Place
1959
Summer's Lease
as Hugh Pargeter
1989
Father Brown
as Bishop Reynard
2013
Empire Warriors
as Narrator
2004