Michael Pennington
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 (73)
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
Raised by Wolves
1945: The Savage Peace
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
Endeavour
Father Brown
RSC Live: Richard II
The Escape Artist
The Iron Lady
The Lost World of Communism
Florence Nightingale- Airborne: The RAF at 90
Lewis
Fragile
Empire Warriors
State of Play
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Pyramid
The Dinosaur Hunters
Waking the Dead
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
Silent Witness
Cracker: White Ghost
Dalziel and Pascoe
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
The Last Bolshevik
Between the Lines
Henry V
Richard II
Henry IV: Part 1
Henry IV: Part 2
Henry VI: House of York
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
Richard III
Summer's Lease
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
ScreenPlay
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
The Marlowe Inquest
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
Playing Shakespeare
The Mayor of Montemilone
Freud- Waving to a Train
Italians
Return of the Jedi
Cymbeline
Outside Edge
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Danton's Death
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
BBC2 Play of the Week- It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
The Witches of Pendle
Playhouse- No Exit
Mad Jack- The Dolly Scene
Hamlet- W. Somerset Maugham
- The Tycoon
- The Root of All Evil?
Callan
ITV Playhouse
Public Eye
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Theatre 625
The Wednesday Play- Drama 61-67
No Hiding Place
Armchair Theatre