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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 7, 1943
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington
Michael Pennington
0.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.0
Narrator (voice)
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021
7.5
The Trust Voice (voice)
Raised by Wolves
2020
7.5
Narrator (voice)
1945: The Savage Peace
2015
7.0
Narrator (Voice)
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2014
7.5
John of Gaunt
RSC Live: Richard II
2013
7.1
Judge
The Escape Artist
2013
8.1
Professor Donald Bagley
Endeavour
2013
7.6
Bishop Reynard
Father Brown
2013
6.4
Michael Foot
The Iron Lady
2011
6.0
The Lost World of Communism
2009
Credits
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
as Narrator (voice)
2021
6.0
Raised by Wolves
as The Trust Voice (voice)
2020
7.5
1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice)
2015
7.5
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
as Narrator (Voice)
2014
7.0
RSC Live: Richard II
as John of Gaunt
2013
7.5
The Escape Artist
as Judge
2013
7.1
Endeavour
as Professor Donald Bagley
2013
8.1
Father Brown
as Bishop Reynard
2013
7.6
The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot
2011
6.4
The Lost World of Communism
2009
6.0
🎬
Airborne: The RAF at 90
as Narrator - (Voice)
2008
0.0
Florence Nightingale
as Wen
2008
6.0
Lewis
as Dr. Melville
2007
7.6
Fragile
as Marcus
2005
6.5
Empire Warriors
as Narrator
2004
0.0
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
2003
7.2
State of Play
as Richard Siegler
2003
7.4
The Dinosaur Hunters
as William Buckland
2002
5.0
Pyramid
as Narrator (voice)
2002
6.0
Waking the Dead
as Prof Alan Macintosh
2001
7.2
Trial & Retribution
1997
6.8
Cracker: White Ghost
as Commander Gordon Ellison
1996
7.0
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
6.3
Silent Witness
as Dennis Morgan
1996
7.5
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (voice: English version)
1994
7.3
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
as Degas
1994
0.0
Between the Lines
1992
5.2
Richard II
as Richard II
1991
0.0
Richard III
as Duke of Buckingham
1991
0.0
Henry VI: House of York
as Jack Cade
1991
0.0
Henry V
as King Henry V
1991
0.0
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
as Earl of Suffolk
1991
0.0
Henry IV: Part 2
as Henry Prince of Wales
1991
0.0
Henry IV: Part 1
as Prince Henry of Wales
1991
0.0
Summer's Lease
as Hugh Pargeter
1989
7.3
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
1987
5.4
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Oedipus Rex
1986
2.0
The Marlowe Inquest
as Thomas Kyd
1986
1.0
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985
0.0
The Mayor of Montemilone
as Narrator
1984
5.0
Freud
as Carl Jung
1984
3.0
Playing Shakespeare
1984
10.0
Cymbeline
as Posthumus
1983
5.7
Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod
1983
7.9
Outside Edge
as Bob
1982
6.0
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
as John Lilburne
1981
0.0
Danton's Death
as Saint-Just
1978
0.0
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
as E1A
1978
0.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as E1A
1977
7.0
🎬
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
as Don Harris
1977
0.0
The Witches of Pendle
as Minister
1976
1.0
Playhouse
as John Lilburne
1974
7.0
🎬
The Dolly Scene
as Tom
1970
0.0
Mad Jack
1970
0.0
Hamlet
as Laertes
1969
5.7
🎬
The Tycoon
as Peter Bell
1968
0.0
Callan
1967
7.0
BBC Play of the Month
as St Just
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Alexei Turbin
1965
5.0
Public Eye
as John Sheldon
1965
7.8
Theatre 625
as Wulfnoth
1964
7.2
Theatre 625
as Alexander
1964
7.2
🎬
Drama 61-67
as First youth
1961
0.0
No Hiding Place
1959
3.7