Michael Pennington

Personal Info

Birthday

June 7, 1943

(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.

Known For

Silent Witness

Endeavour

Raised by Wolves

Father Brown

Lewis

BBC Play of the Month

Waking the Dead

Return of the Jedi

Filmography

2021
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
as Narrator (voice)
2015
1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice)
2014
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
as Narrator (Voice)
2013
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
as John of Gaunt
2011
The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot
2008
Airborne: The RAF at 90
as Narrator - (Voice)
Florence Nightingale
as Wen
2005
Fragile
as Marcus
2003
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
2002
The Dinosaur Hunters
as William Buckland
Pyramid
as Narrator (voice)
1996
Cracker: White Ghost
as Commander Gordon Ellison
1994
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
as Degas
1993
The Last Bolshevik
as Voice
1991
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
as Earl of Suffolk
Henry IV: Part 1
as Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2
as Henry Prince of Wales
Richard II
as Richard II
Richard III
as Duke of Buckingham
Henry VI: House of York
as Jack Cade
Henry V
as King Henry V
1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Oedipus Rex
The Marlowe Inquest
as Thomas Kyd
1984
The Mayor of Montemilone
as Narrator
1983
Cymbeline
as Posthumus
Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod
1982
Outside Edge
as Bob
1981
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
as John Lilburne
1978
Danton's Death
as Saint-Just
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
as E1A
1977
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
as Don Harris
1976
The Witches of Pendle
as Minister
1970
The Dolly Scene
as Tom
1969
Hamlet
as Laertes
1968
The Tycoon
as Peter Bell