Michael Pennington
ActingMichael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (June 7, 1943 - May 10, 2026) was 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.
Movies
Narrator (voice)
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021
Narrator (voice)
1945: The Savage Peace
2015
Narrator (Voice)
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2014
John of Gaunt
RSC Live: Richard II
2013
Michael Foot
The Iron Lady
2011
Wen
Florence Nightingale
2008
Marcus
Fragile
2005
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003
William Buckland
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002
Narrator (voice)
Pyramid
2002
Commander Gordon Ellison
Cracker: White Ghost
1996
Self (voice: English version)
The Last Bolshevik
1994
Degas
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
1994
Richard II
Richard II
1991
Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 1
1991
Henry Prince of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2
1991
King Henry V
Henry V
1991
Earl of Suffolk
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991
Jack Cade
Henry VI: House of York
1991
Duke of Buckingham
Richard III
1991
TV Shows
Narrator ( Voice)
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
2022
The Trust (voice)
Raised by Wolves
2020
Judge
The Escape Artist
2013
Professor Donald Bagley
Endeavour
2013
Bishop Reynard
Father Brown
2013
The Lost World of Communism
2009
Dr. Melville
Lewis
2007
Narrator
Empire Warriors
2004
Richard Siegler
State of Play
2003
Priest
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001
Prof Alan Macintosh
Waking the Dead
2001
Hartley Culpepper
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Dennis Morgan
Silent Witness
1996
Between the Lines
1992
Hugh Pargeter
Summer's Lease
1989
Thomas Kyd
ScreenPlay
1986
Narrator
Italians
1984
Carl Jung
Freud
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
E1A
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
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