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
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
John Lilburne
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Degas
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
Narrator (voice)
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
Marcus
Fragile
Thomas Kyd
The Marlowe Inquest
Self (voice: English version)
Le Tombeau d'Alexandre
Moff Jerjerrod
Return of the Jedi
Laertes
Hamlet
Narrator - (Voice)
Airborne: The RAF at 90
William Buckland
The Dinosaur Hunters
Peter Bell
The Tycoon
Mad Jack
Don Harris
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Saint-Just
Danton's Death
Richard II
Richard II
Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 1
Henry Prince of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2
King Henry V
Henry V
Jack Cade
Henry VI: House of York
Earl of Suffolk
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
Duke of Buckingham
Richard III
Tom
The Dolly Scene
Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Michael Foot
The Iron Lady
Narrator (Voice)
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
Wen
Florence Nightingale
Bob
Outside Edge
Minister
The Witches of Pendle
Oedipus Rex
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Posthumus
Cymbeline
Narrator (voice)
The Savage Peace
Narrator
The Mayor of Montemilone
John of Gaunt
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
Narrator (voice)
Pyramid
Commander Gordon Ellison
Cracker: White Ghost
E1A
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
38
Gender
Male
Birthday
1943-06-07
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Also Known As
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington