Michael Pennington
Born on June 7th, 1943
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021
Narrator (voice)
Details 1945: The Savage Peace
2015
Narrator (voice)
Details Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2014
Narrator (Voice)
Details Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
2013
John of Gaunt
Details The Iron Lady
2011
Michael Foot
Details Airborne: The RAF at 90
2008
Narrator - (Voice)
Details Florence Nightingale
2008
Wen
Details Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
Details The Dinosaur Hunters
2002
William Buckland
Details Pyramid
2002
Narrator (voice)
Details Cracker: White Ghost
1996
Commander Gordon Ellison
Details Degas and Pissario Fall Out
1994
Degas
Details The Last Bolshevik
1993
Voice
Details Henry IV: Part 1
1991
Prince Henry of Wales
Details Henry IV: Part 2
1991
Henry Prince of Wales
Details Henry VI: House of York
1991
Jack Cade
Details Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991
Earl of Suffolk
Details Richard III
1991
Duke of Buckingham
Details The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
Sherlock Holmes
Details Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
Oedipus Rex
Details The Marlowe Inquest
1986
Thomas Kyd
Details Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985
Character TBA
Details The Mayor of Montemilone
1984
Narrator
Details Return of the Jedi
1983
Moff Jerjerrod
Details A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981
John Lilburne
Details Danton's Death
1978
Saint-Just
Details Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978
E1A
Details It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977
Don Harris
Details The Witches of Pendle
1976
Minister
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