Michael Pennington
ActingAlso Known As
Michael Vivian Fyfe 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.
Movies
(38 total)
Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod
The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot
Fragile
as Marcus
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (voice: English version)
Hamlet
as Laertes
1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice)
Cymbeline
as Posthumus
RSC Live: Richard II
as John of Gaunt
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
The Marlowe Inquest
as Thomas Kyd
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
as Narrator (voice)
The Dinosaur Hunters
as William Buckland
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
as Narrator (Voice)
Outside Edge
as Bob
The Witches of Pendle
as Minister
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Oedipus Rex
The Mayor of Montemilone
as Narrator
Pyramid
as Narrator (voice)
TV Shows
(27 total)
Raised by Wolves
as The Trust Voice (voice)
Endeavour
as Professor Donald Bagley
Father Brown
as Bishop Reynard
Lewis
as Dr. Melville
State of Play
as Richard Siegler
Silent Witness
as Dennis Morgan
The Escape Artist
as Judge
Waking the Dead
as Prof Alan Macintosh
Summer's Lease
as Hugh Pargeter
BBC Play of the Month
as St Just
BBC Play of the Month
as Alexei Turbin
Public Eye
as John Sheldon
Theatre 625
as Wulfnoth
Theatre 625
as Alexander