Birthday
1943/06/07 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Also know as
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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.
(1985) Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
as ---
(2003) Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
(1981) A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
as John Lilburne
(1994) Degas and Pissario Fall Out
as Degas
(2021) Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
as Narrator (voice)
(2005) Fragile
as Marcus
(1986) The Marlowe Inquest
as Thomas Kyd
(1993) The Last Bolshevik
as Voice
(1983) Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod
(1969) Hamlet
as Laertes
(2008) Airborne: The RAF at 90
as Narrator - (Voice)
(2002) The Dinosaur Hunters
as William Buckland
(1968) The Tycoon
as Peter Bell
(1970) Mad Jack
as ---
(1977) It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
as Don Harris
(1978) Danton's Death
as Saint-Just
(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) Henry VI: House of York
as Jack Cade
(1991) Henry VI: House of Lancaster
as Earl of Suffolk
(1991) Richard III
as Duke of Buckingham
(1970) The Dolly Scene
as Tom
(1987) The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
(2011) The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot
(2014) Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
as Narrator (Voice)
(2008) Florence Nightingale
as Wen
(1982) Outside Edge
as Bob
(1976) The Witches of Pendle
as Minister
(1986) Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Oedipus Rex
(1982) Cymbeline
as Posthumus
(2015) 1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice)
(1984) The Mayor of Montemilone
as Narrator
(2013) Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
as John of Gaunt
(2002) Pyramid
as Narrator (voice)
(1996) Cracker: White Ghost
as Commander Gordon Ellison
(1978) Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
as E1A
(2007) Lewis
as Dr. Melville
(1996) Silent Witness
as Dennis Morgan
(1996) Dalziel & Pascoe
as ---
(1992) Between the Lines
as ---
(2003) State of Play
as ---
(1967) Callan
as ---
(2001) Waking the Dead
as Prof Alan Macintosh
(1997) Trial & Retribution
as ---
(1959) No Hiding Place
as ---
(1978) The BBC Television Shakespeare
as ---
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Alexei Turbin
(1989) Summer's Lease
as Hugh Pargeter
(2013) Father Brown
as Bishop Reynard
(2004) Empire Warriors
as Narrator
(2020) Raised by Wolves
as The Trust Voice (voice)
(2009) The Lost World of Communism
as ---
(2013) Endeavour
as Professor Donald Bagley
(1984) Freud
as Carl Jung
(1993) Cracker
as Cdr Gordon Ellison
(1965) Public Eye
as John Sheldon
(1984) Playing Shakespeare
as ---
(2013) The Escape Artist
as Judge