Michael Pennington
Department: Acting
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
1985
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
1994
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021
Fragile
2005
The Marlowe Inquest
1986
The Last Bolshevik
1994
Return of the Jedi
1983
Hamlet
1969
Airborne: The RAF at 90
2008
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002
The Tycoon
1968
Mad Jack
1970
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977
Danton's Death
1978
Richard II
1991
Henry IV: Part 1
1991
Henry IV: Part 2
1991
Henry V
1991
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991
Henry VI: House of York
1991
Richard III
1991
The Dolly Scene
1970
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
The Iron Lady
2011
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2014
Florence Nightingale
2008
Outside Edge
1982
The Witches of Pendle
1976
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
Cymbeline
1983
1945: The Savage Peace
2015
The Mayor of Montemilone
1984
RSC Live: Richard II
2013
Pyramid
2002
Cracker: White Ghost
1996
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978
Lewis
2007
Silent Witness
1996
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Between the Lines
1992
State of Play
2003
Callan
1967
Waking the Dead
2001
Trial & Retribution
1997
No Hiding Place
1959
Summer's Lease
1989
Father Brown
2013
Empire Warriors
2004
Raised by Wolves
2020
The Lost World of Communism
2009
Endeavour
2013
Public Eye
1965
Playing Shakespeare
1984
The Escape Artist
2013
Playhouse
1974
BBC Play of the Month
1965
BBC Play of the Month
1965
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Theatre 625
1964
Theatre 625
1964
Freud
1984
Drama 61-67
1961
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001
Armchair Theatre
1956
Armchair Theatre
1956
ITV Playhouse
1967