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Michael Pennington
Born · June 7, 1943 (81 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Bio
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.
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2021
Raised by Wolves
The Trust Voice (voice) · (1 episode)
7.5
2020
1945: The Savage Peace
Narrator (voice)
7.5
2015
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
Narrator (Voice)
7.0
2014
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
John of Gaunt
7.5
2013
The Escape Artist
Judge · (1 episode)
6.9
2013
Endeavour
Professor Donald Bagley · (1 episode)
8.1
2013
Father Brown
Bishop Reynard · (1 episode)
7.5
2013
The Iron Lady
Michael Foot
6.4
2011
The Lost World of Communism
(3 episodes)
6.0
2009
Airborne: The RAF at 90
Narrator - (Voice)
0.0
2008
Florence Nightingale
Wen
6.0
2008
Lewis
Dr. Melville · (1 episode)
7.6
2007
Fragile
Marcus
6.6
2005
Empire Warriors
Narrator · (4 episodes)
0.0
2004
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
7.2
2003
State of Play
(1 episode)
7.5
2003
The Dinosaur Hunters
William Buckland
5.0
2002
Pyramid
Narrator (voice)
6.0
2002
Waking the Dead
Prof Alan Macintosh · (2 episodes)
7.3
2001
Trial & Retribution
(2 episodes)
6.5
1997
Cracker: White Ghost
Commander Gordon Ellison
0.0
1996
Dalziel & Pascoe
(1 episode)
6.4
1996
Silent Witness
Dennis Morgan · (2 episodes)
7.6
1996
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
Degas
0.0
1994
Cracker
Cdr Gordon Ellison · (1 episode)
6.5
1993
The Last Bolshevik
Voice
7.3
1993
Between the Lines
(2 episodes)
5.6
1992
Richard II
Richard II
0.0
1991
Henry IV: Part 1
Prince Henry of Wales
0.0
1991
Henry IV: Part 2
Henry Prince of Wales
0.0
1991
Henry V
King Henry V
0.0
1991
Henry VI: House of York
Jack Cade
0.0
1991
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
Earl of Suffolk
0.0
1991
Richard III
Duke of Buckingham
0.0
1991
Summer's Lease
Hugh Pargeter · (4 episodes)
7.5
1989
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
5.2
1987
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Oedipus Rex
2.0
1986
The Marlowe Inquest
Thomas Kyd
1.0
1986
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
0.0
1985
The Mayor of Montemilone
Narrator
5.0
1984
Freud
Carl Jung · (6 episodes)
3.0
1984
Playing Shakespeare
(9 episodes)
10.0
1984
Return of the Jedi
Moff Jerjerrod
7.9
1983
Cymbeline
Posthumus
6.6
1982
Outside Edge
Bob
0.0
1982
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
John Lilburne
0.0
1981
The BBC Television Shakespeare
(1 episode)
5.2
1978
Danton's Death
Saint-Just
0.0
1978
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
E1A
0.0
1978
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Don Harris
0.0
1977
The Witches of Pendle
Minister
0.0
1976
The Dolly Scene
Tom
0.0
1970
Mad Jack
0.0
1970
Hamlet
Laertes
5.7
1969
The Tycoon
Peter Bell
0.0
1968
Callan
(1 episode)
7.0
1967
BBC Play of the Month
Alexei Turbin · (1 episode)
5.0
1965
Public Eye
John Sheldon · (1 episode)
7.8
1965
No Hiding Place
(1 episode)
3.7
1959