Personal Info
Known ForActing
GenderMale
BirthdayJune 6, 1943 (81 years old)
Place of BirthCambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Michael Pennington
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.
Known For
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
Fragile
The Marlowe Inquest
The Last Bolshevik
Return of the Jedi
Hamlet
Airborne: The RAF at 90
The Dinosaur Hunters
The Tycoon
Mad Jack
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Danton's Death
Richard II
Henry IV: Part 1
Henry IV: Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
Henry VI: House of York
Richard III
The Dolly Scene
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Iron Lady
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
Florence Nightingale
Outside Edge
The Witches of Pendle
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Cymbeline
1945: The Savage Peace
The Mayor of Montemilone
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
Pyramid
Cracker: White Ghost
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Lewis
Silent Witness
Dalziel & Pascoe
Between the Lines
State of Play
Callan
Waking the Dead
Trial & Retribution
No Hiding Place
The BBC Television Shakespeare
BBC Play of the Month
Summer's Lease
Father Brown
Empire Warriors
Raised by Wolves
The Lost World of Communism
Endeavour
Freud
Cracker
Public Eye
Playing Shakespeare
The Escape Artist