Michael Pennington
ActorMichael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (June 7, 1943 - May 10, 2026) was 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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FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR39
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021
Narrator (voice)
1945: The Savage Peace
2015
Narrator (voice)
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2014
Narrator (Voice)
RSC Live: Richard II
2013
John of Gaunt
The Iron Lady
2011
Michael Foot
- Airborne: The RAF at 90
Airborne: The RAF at 90
2008
Narrator - (Voice)
Florence Nightingale
2008
Wen
Fragile
2005
Marcus
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002
William Buckland
Pyramid
2002
Narrator (voice)
Cracker: White Ghost
1996
Commander Gordon Ellison
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
1994
Degas
The Last Bolshevik
1994
Self (voice: English version)
Richard II
1991
Richard II
Henry IV: Part 1
1991
Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2
1991
Henry Prince of Wales
Henry V
1991
King Henry V
Henry VI: House of York
1991
Jack Cade
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991
Earl of Suffolk
Richard III
1991
Duke of Buckingham
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
Sherlock Holmes
The Marlowe Inquest
1986
Thomas Kyd
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
Oedipus Rex
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985
The Mayor of Montemilone
1984
Narrator
- Waving to a Train
Waving to a Train
1984
Richard
Return of the Jedi
1983
Moff Jerjerrod
Cymbeline
1983
Posthumus
Outside Edge
1982
Bob
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981
John Lilburne
Danton's Death
1978
Saint-Just
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978
E1A
- It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977
Don Harris
The Witches of Pendle
1976
Minister
Mad Jack
1970
- The Dolly Scene
The Dolly Scene
1970
Tom
Hamlet
1969
Laertes
- The Tycoon
The Tycoon
1968
Peter Bell
