Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

80 · Born: Jun 7, 1943

Personal Details

Born Jun 7, 1943 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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.

Career

2021
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali as Narrator (voice)
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2016
Father Brown
Father Brown as Bishop Reynard
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2015
The Savage Peace
The Savage Peace as Narrator (voice)
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2013
Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II
Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II as John of Gaunt
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2009
The Lost World of Communism
2008
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale as Wen
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2005
Fragile
Fragile as Marcus
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2004
Empire Warriors
Empire Warriors as Narrator
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2003
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
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Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead as Prof Alan Macintosh
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2002
Building the Great Pyramid
Building the Great Pyramid as Narrator (voice)
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Silent Witness
Silent Witness as Dennis Morgan
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1996
The Dinosaur Hunters
The Dinosaur Hunters as William Buckland
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1993
The Last Bolshevik
The Last Bolshevik as Voice
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1989
Summer's Lease
Summer's Lease as Hugh Pargeter
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1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes
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1986
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
The Theban Plays by Sophocles as Oedipus Rex
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1984
Freud
Freud as Carl Jung
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Playing Shakespeare
1982
Cymbeline
Cymbeline as Posthumus
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1978
BBC Play of the Month
BBC Play of the Month as Saint-Just
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1976
The Witches of Pendle
The Witches of Pendle as Minister
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1971
Public Eye
Public Eye as John Sheldon
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1970
The Wednesday Play
1969
Hamlet
Hamlet as Laertes
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