Personal Info
Known Credits
38
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1943-06-07 (82 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Also Known For
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
Acting
2021 --
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
| Narrator (voice)
2015 --
1945: The Savage Peace
| Narrator (voice)
2014 --
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
| Narrator (Voice)
2013 --
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
| John of Gaunt
2011 --
The Iron Lady
| Michael Foot
2008 --
Airborne: The RAF at 90
| Narrator - (Voice)
2008 --
Florence Nightingale
| Wen
2005 --
Fragile
| Marcus
2003 --
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
| Narrator (UK version) (voice)
2002 --
The Dinosaur Hunters
| William Buckland
2002 --
Pyramid
| Narrator (voice)
1996 --
Cracker: White Ghost
| Commander Gordon Ellison
1994 --
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
| Degas
1993 --
The Last Bolshevik
| Voice
1991 --
Richard III
| Duke of Buckingham
1991 --
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
| Earl of Suffolk
1991 --
Henry VI: House of York
| Jack Cade
1991 --
Henry V
| King Henry V
1991 --
Henry IV: Part 2
| Henry Prince of Wales
1991 --
Henry IV: Part 1
| Prince Henry of Wales
1991 --
Richard II
| Richard II
1987 --
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
| Sherlock Holmes
1986 --
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
| Oedipus Rex
1986 --
The Marlowe Inquest
| Thomas Kyd
1985 --
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
|
1984 --
The Mayor of Montemilone
| Narrator
1983 --
Return of the Jedi
| Moff Jerjerrod
1982 --
Cymbeline
| Posthumus
1982 --
Outside Edge
| Bob
1981 --
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
| John Lilburne
1978 --
Danton's Death
| Saint-Just
1978 --
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
| E1A
1977 --
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
| Don Harris
1976 --
The Witches of Pendle
| Minister
1970 --
The Dolly Scene
| Tom
1970 --
Mad Jack
|
1969 --
Hamlet
| Laertes
1968 --
The Tycoon
| Peter Bell