Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 07, 1943
Died
May 10, 2026
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Credits
73 titles
Michael Pennington
Biography
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (June 7, 1943 - May 10, 2026) was 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
Filmography
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
Narrator ( Voice)
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
Narrator (voice)
Raised by Wolves
The Trust Voice (voice)
1945: The Savage Peace
Narrator (voice)
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
Narrator (Voice)
RSC Live: Richard II
John of Gaunt
The Escape Artist
Judge
Endeavour
Professor Donald Bagley
Father Brown
Bishop Reynard
The Iron Lady
Michael Foot
The Lost World of Communism
Airborne: The RAF at 90
Narrator - (Voice)
Florence Nightingale
Wen
Lewis
Dr. Melville
Fragile
Marcus
Empire Warriors
Narrator
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
State of Play
Richard Siegler
The Dinosaur Hunters
William Buckland
Pyramid
Narrator (voice)
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
Priest
Waking the Dead
Prof Alan Macintosh
Cracker: White Ghost
Commander Gordon Ellison
Dalziel and Pascoe
Hartley Culpepper
Silent Witness
Dennis Morgan
The Last Bolshevik
Self (voice: English version)
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
Degas
Between the Lines
Richard III
Duke of Buckingham
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
Earl of Suffolk
Henry V
King Henry V
Henry VI: House of York
Jack Cade
Henry IV: Part 1
Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2
Henry Prince of Wales
Richard II
Richard II
Summer's Lease
Hugh Pargeter
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Oedipus Rex
The Marlowe Inquest
Thomas Kyd
ScreenPlay
Thomas Kyd
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
The Mayor of Montemilone
Narrator
Italians
Narrator
Freud
Carl Jung
Playing Shakespeare
Waving to a Train
Richard
Cymbeline
Posthumus
Return of the Jedi
Moff Jerjerrod
Outside Edge
Bob
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
John Lilburne