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.
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Acting History
2021
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali as Narrator (voice)
2020Raised by Wolves as The Trust Voice (voice)
20151945: The Savage Peace as Narrator (voice)
2014Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words as Narrator (Voice)
2013Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II as John of Gaunt
2013The Escape Artist as Judge
2013Endeavour as Professor Donald Bagley
2013Father Brown as Bishop Reynard
2011The Iron Lady as Michael Foot
2009The Lost World of Communism
2008Airborne: The RAF at 90 as Narrator - (Voice)
2008Florence Nightingale as Wen
2007Lewis as Dr. Melville
2005Fragile as Marcus
2004Empire Warriors as Narrator
2003Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
2003State of Play as Richard Siegler
2002The Dinosaur Hunters as William Buckland
2002Pyramid as Narrator (voice)
2001Waking the Dead as Prof Alan Macintosh
1997Trial & Retribution
1996Cracker: White Ghost as Commander Gordon Ellison
1996Dalziel & Pascoe
1996Silent Witness as Dennis Morgan
1994The Last Bolshevik as Self (voice: English version)
1994Degas and Pissario Fall Out as Degas
1992Between the Lines
1991Henry VI: House of Lancaster as Earl of Suffolk
1991Henry VI: House of York as Jack Cade
1991Henry IV: Part 1 as Prince Henry of Wales
1991Richard II as Richard II
1991Richard III as Duke of Buckingham
1991Henry V as King Henry V
1991Henry IV: Part 2 as Henry Prince of Wales
1989Summer's Lease as Hugh Pargeter
1987The Return of Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes
1986Theban Plays: Oedipus the King as Oedipus Rex
1986The Marlowe Inquest as Thomas Kyd
1985Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1984The Mayor of Montemilone as Narrator
1984Freud as Carl Jung
1984Playing Shakespeare
1983Cymbeline as Posthumus
1983Return of the Jedi as Moff Jerjerrod
1982Outside Edge as Bob
1981A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter as John Lilburne
1978Danton's Death as Saint-Just
1978Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat as E1A
1977BBC2 Play of the Week as E1A
1977It's Only Rock 'n' Roll as Don Harris
1976The Witches of Pendle as Minister
1974Playhouse as John Lilburne
1970The Dolly Scene as Tom
1970Mad Jack
1969Hamlet as Laertes
1968The Tycoon as Peter Bell
1967Callan
1965BBC Play of the Month as St Just
1965BBC Play of the Month as Alexei Turbin
1965Public Eye as John Sheldon
1964Theatre 625 as Wulfnoth
1964Theatre 625 as Alexander
1959No Hiding Place