Michael Pennington

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.

Actor

1968

[ ] The Tycoon (Peter Bell)

1969

[ ] Hamlet (Laertes)

1983

[ ] Return of the Jedi (Moff Jerjerrod)
[ ] Cymbeline (Posthumus)

1984

[ ] The Mayor of Montemilone (Narrator)

1985

[ ] Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie (????)

1986

[ ] The Marlowe Inquest (Thomas Kyd)
[ ] Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex)

1987

[ ] The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)

1991

[ ] Richard II (Richard II)
[ ] Henry IV: Part 1 (Prince Henry of Wales)
[ ] Henry IV: Part 2 (Henry Prince of Wales)
[ ] Henry V (King Henry V)
[ ] Henry VI: House of York (Jack Cade)
[ ] Henry VI: House of Lancaster (Earl of Suffolk)
[ ] Richard III (Duke of Buckingham)

1994

[ ] Degas and Pissario Fall Out (Degas)
[ ] The Last Bolshevik (Self (voice: English version))

1996

[ ] Cracker: White Ghost (Commander Gordon Ellison)

2002

[ ] The Dinosaur Hunters (William Buckland)
[ ] Pyramid (Narrator (voice))

2003

[ ] Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death (Narrator (UK version) (voice))

2005

[ ] Fragile (Marcus)

2008

[ ] Airborne: The RAF at 90 (Narrator - (Voice))
[ ] Florence Nightingale (Wen)

2011

[ ] The Iron Lady (Michael Foot)

2013

[ ] RSC Live: Richard II (John of Gaunt)

2014

[ ] Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words (Narrator (Voice))

2015

[ ] 1945: The Savage Peace (Narrator (voice))

2021

[ ] Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali (Narrator (voice))