Michael Pennington

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.

Cast

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

(Narrator (UK version) (voice))

A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter

(John Lilburne)

Degas and Pissario Fall Out

(Degas)

Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali

(Narrator (voice))

Fragile

(Marcus)

The Marlowe Inquest

(Thomas Kyd)

The Last Bolshevik

(Voice)

Return of the Jedi

(Moff Jerjerrod)

Hamlet

(Laertes)

Airborne: The RAF at 90

(Narrator - (Voice))

The Dinosaur Hunters

(William Buckland)

The Tycoon

(Peter Bell)

Mad Jack

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

(Don Harris)

Danton's Death

(Saint-Just)

Richard II

(Richard II)

Henry IV: Part 1

(Prince Henry of Wales)

Henry IV: Part 2

(Henry Prince of Wales)

Henry V

(King Henry V)

Henry VI: House of York

(Jack Cade)

Henry VI: House of Lancaster

(Earl of Suffolk)

Richard III

(Duke of Buckingham)

The Dolly Scene

(Tom)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

(Sherlock Holmes)

The Iron Lady

(Michael Foot)

Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words

(Narrator (Voice))

Florence Nightingale

(Wen)

Outside Edge

(Bob)

The Witches of Pendle

(Minister)

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

(Oedipus Rex)

Cymbeline

(Posthumus)

1945: The Savage Peace

(Narrator (voice))

The Mayor of Montemilone

(Narrator)

Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II

(John of Gaunt)

Pyramid

(Narrator (voice))

Cracker: White Ghost

(Commander Gordon Ellison)

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat

(E1A)

Lewis

(Dr. Melville)

Silent Witness

(Dennis Morgan)

Dalziel & Pascoe

Between the Lines

State of Play

Callan

Waking the Dead

(Prof Alan Macintosh)

Trial & Retribution

No Hiding Place

The BBC Television Shakespeare

BBC Play of the Month

(Alexei Turbin)

Summer's Lease

(Hugh Pargeter)

Father Brown

(Bishop Reynard)

Empire Warriors

(Narrator)

Raised by Wolves

(The Trust Voice (voice))

The Lost World of Communism

Endeavour

(Professor Donald Bagley)

Freud

(Carl Jung)

Cracker

(Cdr Gordon Ellison)

Public Eye

(John Sheldon)

Playing Shakespeare

The Escape Artist

(Judge)