Michael Pennington
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot 2011
Fragile
as Marcus 2005
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (voice: English version) 1994
Hamlet
as Laertes 1969
1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice) 2015
Cymbeline
as Posthumus 1983
RSC Live: Richard II
as John of Gaunt 2013
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes 1987
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Narrator (UK version) (voice) 2003
Florence Nightingale
as Wen 2008
The Marlowe Inquest
as Thomas Kyd 1986
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
as Narrator (voice) 2021
The Dinosaur Hunters
as William Buckland 2002
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
as Narrator (Voice) 2014
Outside Edge
as Bob 1982
The Witches of Pendle
as Minister 1976