Portrait of Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

Acting

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.

Born: June 7, 1943

Place of Birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Filmography

2020
Raised by Wolves

as The Trust Voice (voice)

2015
1945: The Savage Peace

as Narrator (voice)

2013
2013
Endeavour

as Professor Donald Bagley

2013
Father Brown

as Bishop Reynard

2011
The Iron Lady

as Michael Foot

2007
Lewis

as Dr. Melville

2005
Fragile

as Marcus

2004
Empire Warriors

as Narrator

2003
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

as Narrator (UK version) (voice)

2003
State of Play

as Richard Siegler

2002
The Dinosaur Hunters

as William Buckland

2002
Pyramid

as Narrator (voice)

2001
Waking the Dead

as Prof Alan Macintosh

1996
Cracker: White Ghost

as Commander Gordon Ellison

1996
Silent Witness

as Dennis Morgan

1993
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

1989
Summer's Lease

as Hugh Pargeter

1987
1986
The Marlowe Inquest

as Thomas Kyd

1984
Freud

as Carl Jung

1983
Cymbeline

as Posthumus

1983
Return of the Jedi

as Moff Jerjerrod

1982
1978
Danton's Death

as Saint-Just

1976
1974
Playhouse

as John Lilburne

1969
Hamlet

as Laertes

1967
1965
1965
BBC Play of the Month

as Alexei Turbin

1965
Public Eye

as John Sheldon

1964
Theatre 625

as Wulfnoth

1964
Theatre 625

as Alexander