Michael Pennington
Acting
1943-06-07 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Michael 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.
Filmography
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
2022 · Series
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021 · Movie
Raised by Wolves
2020 · Series
1945: The Savage Peace
2015 · Movie
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2014 · Movie
RSC Live: Richard II
2013 · Movie
The Escape Artist
2013 · Series
Endeavour
2013 · Series
Father Brown
2013 · Series
The Iron Lady
2011 · Movie
The Lost World of Communism
2009 · Series
Airborne: The RAF at 90
2008 · Movie
Florence Nightingale
2008 · Movie
Lewis
2007 · Series
Fragile
2005 · Movie
Empire Warriors
2004 · Series
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003 · Movie
State of Play
2003 · Series
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002 · Movie
Pyramid
2002 · Movie
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001 · Series
Waking the Dead
2001 · Series
Cracker: White Ghost
1996 · Movie
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Series
Silent Witness
1996 · Series
The Last Bolshevik
1994 · Movie
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
1994 · Movie
Between the Lines
1992 · Series
In My Defence
1991 · Series
Richard III
1991 · Movie
Henry V
1991 · Movie
Henry VI: House of York
1991 · Movie
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991 · Movie
Henry IV: Part 1
1991 · Movie
Henry IV: Part 2
1991 · Movie
Richard II
1991 · Movie
Summer's Lease
1989 · Series
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987 · Movie
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986 · Movie
The Marlowe Inquest
1986 · Movie
ScreenPlay
1986 · Series
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985 · Movie
The Mayor of Montemilone
1984 · Movie
Italians
1984 · Series
Freud
1984 · Series
Playing Shakespeare
1984 · Series
Waving to a Train
1984 · Movie
Cymbeline
1983 · Movie
Return of the Jedi
1983 · Movie
Outside Edge
1982 · Movie
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981 · Movie
Danton's Death
1978 · Movie
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978 · Movie
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Series
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977 · Movie
The Witches of Pendle
1976 · Movie
Playhouse
1974 · Series
No Exit
1972 · Series
The Dolly Scene
1970 · Movie
Mad Jack
1970 · Movie
Hamlet
1969 · Movie
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · Series
The Tycoon
1968 · Movie
The Root of All Evil?
1968 · Series
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Series
Callan
1967 · Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Series
Public Eye
1965 · Series
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Series
Theatre 625
1964 · Series
Drama 61-67
1961 · Series
No Hiding Place
1959 · Series
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series