Michael Pennington
Born: 1943-06-07 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2021
- Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali as Narrator (voice)
2020
- Raised by Wolves as The Trust Voice (voice)
2015
- 1945: The Savage Peace as Narrator (voice)
2014
- Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words as Narrator (Voice)
2013
- Endeavour as Professor Donald Bagley
- Father Brown as Bishop Reynard
- Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II as John of Gaunt
- The Escape Artist as Judge
2011
- The Iron Lady as Michael Foot
2008
- Florence Nightingale as Wen
- Airborne: The RAF at 90 as Narrator - (Voice)
2007
- Lewis as Dr. Melville
2005
- Fragile as Marcus
2004
- Empire Warriors as Narrator
2003
- State of Play as Richard Siegler
- Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
2002
- The Dinosaur Hunters as William Buckland
- Pyramid as Narrator (voice)
2001
- Waking the Dead as Prof Alan Macintosh
1997
1996
- Silent Witness as Dennis Morgan
- Dalziel & Pascoe
- Cracker: White Ghost as Commander Gordon Ellison
1994
- The Last Bolshevik as Self (voice: English version)
- Degas and Pissario Fall Out as Degas
1992
1991
- Richard II as Richard II
- Richard III as Duke of Buckingham
- Henry V as King Henry V
- Henry VI: House of Lancaster as Earl of Suffolk
- Henry VI: House of York as Jack Cade
- Henry IV: Part 1 as Prince Henry of Wales
- Henry IV: Part 2 as Henry Prince of Wales
1989
- Summer's Lease as Hugh Pargeter
1987
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes
1986
- Theban Plays: Oedipus the King as Oedipus Rex
- The Marlowe Inquest as Thomas Kyd
1984
- Playing Shakespeare
- Freud as Carl Jung
- The Mayor of Montemilone as Narrator
1983
- Return of the Jedi as Moff Jerjerrod
- Cymbeline as Posthumus
1982
- Outside Edge as Bob
1981
- A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter as John Lilburne
1978
- Danton's Death as Saint-Just
- Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat as E1A
1977
- BBC2 Play of the Week as E1A
- It's Only Rock 'n' Roll as Don Harris
1976
- The Witches of Pendle as Minister
1974
- Playhouse as John Lilburne
1970
- The Dolly Scene as Tom
- Mad Jack
1969
- Hamlet as Laertes
1968
- The Tycoon as Peter Bell
1967
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as St Just
- Public Eye as John Sheldon
1964
- Theatre 625 as Wulfnoth