Michael Pennington
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Return of the Jedi
1983
as Moff Jerjerrod
The Iron Lady
2011
as Michael Foot
Fragile
2005
as Marcus
Hamlet
1969
as Laertes
Danton's Death
1978
as Saint-Just
Cymbeline
1983
as Posthumus
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
as Sherlock Holmes
Cracker: White Ghost
1996
as Commander Gordon Ellison
1945: The Savage Peace
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Outside Edge
1982
as Bob
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
RSC Live: Richard II
2013
as John of Gaunt
The Tycoon
1968
as Peter Bell
The Last Bolshevik
1994
as Self (voice: English version)
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977
as Don Harris
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
as Oedipus Rex
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991
as Earl of Suffolk
Pyramid
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Richard II
1991
as Richard II
Florence Nightingale
2008
as Wen