Michael Pennington

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-06-07 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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.

Acting

2003

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

as Narrator (UK version) (voice)

2005

Fragile

as Marcus

1986

The Marlowe Inquest

as Thomas Kyd

1993

1983

Return of the Jedi

as Moff Jerjerrod

1969

Hamlet

as Laertes

2008

Airborne: The RAF at 90

as Narrator - (Voice)

2002

The Dinosaur Hunters

as William Buckland

1968

The Tycoon

as Peter Bell

1977

1978

Danton's Death

as Saint-Just

1991

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

1991

1991

Richard III

as Duke of Buckingham

1970

1987

2011

The Iron Lady

as Michael Foot

1982

1976

1982

Cymbeline

as Posthumus

2015

1945: The Savage Peace

as Narrator (voice)

2002

Pyramid

as Narrator (voice)

1996

Cracker: White Ghost

as Commander Gordon Ellison

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