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Michael Pennington

ActorBorn June 7, 1943 (81 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Iron Lady
  • Cracker
  • Kavanagh Q.C.
  • Icons Unearthed
  • Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali

Known For

  • Fragile
  • The Savage Peace
  • Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II
  • Summer's Lease
  • Cymbeline
  • Building the Great Pyramid
  • Florence Nightingale
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • Hamlet
  • Secrets of the Universe Great Scientists in Their Own Words
  • Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death
  • Freud

Filmography

2022
Icons Unearthed (TV Series) · as Narrator
2021
2020
Raised by Wolves (2020) (TV Series) · as The Trust Voice (voice)
2015
The Savage Peace · as Narrator (voice)
2014
2013
2013
The Escape Artist (TV Series) · as Judge
2013
Father Brown (2013) (TV Series) · as Bishop Reynard
2012
Endeavour (TV Series) · as Professor Donald Bagley
2011
The Iron Lady · as Michael Foot
2011
2009
Into the Storm · as Arthur 'bomber' Harris
2009
2008
2007
The Tudors (TV Series) · as Abbot
2006
Lewis (TV Series) · as Dr. Melville
2005
Fragile · as Marcus
2003
Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death · as Narrator (uk Version) (voice)
2003
State of Play (TV Series)
2002
Building the Great Pyramid · as Narrator (voice)
2001
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible (TV Series) · as Priest
2000
Waking the Dead (TV Series) · as Prof Alan Macintosh
1999
Holby City (TV Series) · as David Powell
1998
The Real .... (TV Series) · as Nostradamus
1997
1996
Cracker: White Ghost · as Commander Gordon Ellison
1996
Dalziel and Pascoe (TV Series)
1996
Silent Witness (TV Series) · as Dennis Morgan
1995
Kavanagh Q.C. (TV Series) · as Ralph Merridew
1993
Cracker (TV Series) · as Commander Gordon Ellison
1993
The Last Bolshevik · as Voice
1992
Between the Lines (TV Series)
1989
Summer's Lease (TV Series) · as Hugh Pargeter
1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes · as Sherlock Holmes
1986
Screenplay (1986) (TV Series) · as Thomas Kyd
1984
The Bill (TV Series) · as Judge Howard Sinclair
1984
Freud (TV Series) · as Carl Jung
1983
1982
Cymbeline · as Posthumus
1982
Outside Edge · as Bob
1982
Timewatch (TV Series) · as Narrator (1996)
1982
1978
1977
BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) · as E1a
1975
Arena (1975) (TV Series) · as Narrator
1973
Playhouse (TV Series) · as John Lilburne
1969
Hamlet · as Laertes
1967
ITV Playhouse (TV Series) · as Don Harris
1967
Callan (TV Series)
1965
Play of the Month (TV Series) · as Alexei Turbin
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) · as Martin
1965
The Wars of the Roses (TV Series) · as Cast
1965
Public Eye (TV Series) · as John Sheldon
1964
The Wednesday Play (TV Series) · as Garry
1964
Theatre 625 (TV Series) · as Alexander
1961
Drama 61-67 (TV Series) · as First Youth
1959
No Hiding Place (TV Series)
1956
Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Adrian

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