Michael Pennington

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

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Endeavour

(2013) Professor Donald Bagley

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Father Brown

(2013) Bishop Reynard

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Lewis

(2007) Dr. Melville

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Raised by Wolves

(2020) The Trust Voice (voice)

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Cracker

(1993) Cdr Gordon Ellison

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Play of the Month

(1965) Alexei Turbin

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Return of the Jedi

(1983) Moff Jerjerrod

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Public Eye

(1965) John Sheldon

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2021	Narrator (voice)	Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali 2021-03-09 Movie
2020	The Trust Voice (voice)	Raised by Wolves 2020-09-03 TV Show
2015	Narrator (voice)	1945: The Savage Peace 2015-05-24 Movie
2014	Narrator (Voice)	Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words 2014-11-04 Movie
2013	John of Gaunt	Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II 2013-11-13 Movie
	Judge	The Escape Artist 2013-10-29 TV Show
	Professor Donald Bagley	Endeavour 2013-04-14 TV Show
	Bishop Reynard	Father Brown 2013-01-14 TV Show
2011	Michael Foot	The Iron Lady 2011-12-26 Movie
2009	N/A	The Lost World of Communism 2009-03-14 TV Show
2008	Wen	Florence Nightingale 2008-06-01 Movie
2007	Dr. Melville	Lewis 2007-02-18 TV Show
2005	Marcus	Fragile 2005-10-14 Movie
2004	Narrator	Empire Warriors 2004-11-19 TV Show
2003	Narrator (UK version) (voice)	Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death 2003-10-12 Movie
	N/A	State of Play 2003-05-18 TV Show
2002	Narrator (voice)	Pyramid 2002-10-28 Movie
2000	Prof Alan Macintosh	Waking the Dead 2000-09-04 TV Show
1997	N/A	Trial & Retribution 1997-10-19 TV Show
1996	N/A	Dalziel & Pascoe 1996-03-16 TV Show
	N/A	Silent Witness 1996-02-21 TV Show
1993	Cdr Gordon Ellison	Cracker 1993-09-27 TV Show
	Voice	The Last Bolshevik 1993-03-25 Movie
1992	N/A	Between the Lines 1992-09-04 TV Show
1989	Hugh Pargeter	Summer's Lease 1989-11-01 TV Show
1987	Sherlock Holmes	The Return of Sherlock Holmes 1987-01-10 Movie
1986	Oedipus Rex	Theban Plays: Oedipus the King 1986-09-16 Movie
	Thomas Kyd	The Marlowe Inquest 1986-09-03 Movie
1985	N/A	Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie 1985-03-26 Movie
1984	Narrator	The Mayor of Montemilone 1984-10-26 Movie
	Carl Jung	Freud 1984-09-14 TV Show
	N/A	Playing Shakespeare 1984-07-29 TV Show
1983	Moff Jerjerrod	Return of the Jedi 1983-05-25 Movie
1982	Posthumus	Cymbeline 1982-12-20 Movie
	Bob	Outside Edge 1982-12-19 Movie
1981	John Lilburne	A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter 1981-01-30 Movie
1978	N/A	BBC Television Shakespeare 1978-12-01 TV Show
	Saint-Just	Danton's Death 1978-04-23 Movie
1976	Minister	The Witches of Pendle 1976-06-19 Movie
1970	N/A	Mad Jack 1970-02-04 Movie
1969	Laertes	Hamlet 1969-12-21 Movie
1967	N/A	Callan 1967-07-08 TV Show
1965	Alexei Turbin	Play of the Month 1965-10-19 TV Show
	John Sheldon	Public Eye 1965-01-23 TV Show
1964	N/A	The Wednesday Play 1964-09-30 TV Show
1959	N/A	No Hiding Place 1959-09-16 TV Show
	Degas	Degas and Pissario Fall Out Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv