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Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

Birthday: 1943-06-07 | Place of Birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali

as    Narrator (voice)

2015
1945: The Savage Peace

as    Narrator (voice)

2013
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II

as    John of Gaunt

2008
Airborne: The RAF at 90

as    Narrator - (Voice)

2008
Florence Nightingale

as    Wen

2005
Fragile

as    Marcus

2003
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

as    Narrator (UK version) (voice)

2002
Pyramid

as    Narrator (voice)

2002
The Dinosaur Hunters

as    William Buckland

1996
Cracker: White Ghost

as    Commander Gordon Ellison

1994
Degas and Pissario Fall Out

as    Degas

1993
The Last Bolshevik

as    Voice

1991
Richard III

as    Duke of Buckingham

1991
Henry VI: House of Lancaster

as    Earl of Suffolk

1991
Henry IV: Part 2

as    Henry Prince of Wales

1991
Henry VI: House of York

as    Jack Cade

1991
Henry V

as    King Henry V

1991
Henry IV: Part 1

as    Prince Henry of Wales

1991
Richard II

as    Richard II

1989
Summer's Lease

as    Hugh Pargeter

1989
Summer's Lease

as    Hugh Pargeter

1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes

as    Sherlock Holmes

1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

as    Oedipus Rex

1984
Freud

as    Carl Jung