Michael Pennington
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Michael 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.
Known For
Filmography
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Raised by Wolves
2020
as The Trust (voice)
1945: The Savage Peace
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2014
as Narrator (Voice)
RSC Live: Richard II
2013
as John of Gaunt
Father Brown
2013
as Bishop Reynard
Endeavour
2013
as Professor Donald Bagley
The Escape Artist
2013
as Judge
The Iron Lady
2011
as Michael Foot
The Lost World of Communism
2009
Airborne: The RAF at 90
2008
as Narrator - (Voice)
Florence Nightingale
2008
as Wen
Lewis
2007
as Dr. Melville
Fragile
2005
as Marcus
Empire Warriors
2004
as Narrator
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
State of Play
2003
as Richard Siegler
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002
as William Buckland
Pyramid
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Waking the Dead
2001
as Prof Alan Macintosh
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001
as Priest
Cracker: White Ghost
1996
as Commander Gordon Ellison
Silent Witness
1996
as Dennis Morgan
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
as Hartley Culpepper
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
1994
as Degas
The Last Bolshevik
1994
as Self (voice: English version)
Between the Lines
1992
Richard II
1991
as Richard II
Henry IV: Part 1
1991
as Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2
1991
as Henry Prince of Wales
Henry V
1991
as King Henry V
Henry VI: House of York
1991
as Jack Cade
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991
as Earl of Suffolk
Richard III
1991
as Duke of Buckingham
In My Defence
1991
as Franz Jagerstatter
Summer's Lease
1989
as Hugh Pargeter
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
as Sherlock Holmes
The Marlowe Inquest
1986
as Thomas Kyd
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
as Oedipus Rex
ScreenPlay
1986
as Thomas Kyd
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985
The Mayor of Montemilone
1984
as Narrator
Waving to a Train
1984
as Richard
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Freud
1984
as Carl Jung
Italians
1984
as Narrator
Return of the Jedi
1983
as Moff Jerjerrod
Cymbeline
1983
as Posthumus
Outside Edge
1982
as Bob
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981
as John Lilburne
Danton's Death
1978
as Saint-Just
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978
as E1A
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977
as Don Harris
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as E1A
The Witches of Pendle
1976
as Minister
Playhouse
1974
as John Lilburne
No Exit
1972
as Ian Strawson
Mad Jack
1970
The Dolly Scene
1970
as Tom
Hamlet
1969
as Laertes
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
as Hans
The Tycoon
1968
as Peter Bell
The Root of All Evil?
1968
as Clive Pinner
Callan
1967
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Lancelot Wishart
Public Eye
1965
as John Sheldon
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as St Just
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Alexei Turbin
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Martin
Theatre 625
1964
as Wulfnoth
Theatre 625
1964
as Alexander
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Geoffrey Cromlech
Drama 61-67
1961
as First youth
No Hiding Place
1959
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Adrian
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Tom