Michael Pennington
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.
Known for
2021Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
Narrator (voice)
20151945: The Savage Peace
Narrator (voice)
2014Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
Narrator (Voice)
2013RSC Live: Richard II
John of Gaunt
2011The Iron Lady
Michael Foot
2008Florence Nightingale
Wen
2005Fragile
Marcus
2003Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
2002The Dinosaur Hunters
William Buckland
2002Pyramid
Narrator (voice)
1996Cracker: White Ghost
Commander Gordon Ellison
1994Degas and Pissario Fall Out
Degas
1994The Last Bolshevik
Self (voice: English version)
1991Richard II
Richard II
1991Henry IV: Part 1
Prince Henry of Wales
1991Henry IV: Part 2
Henry Prince of Wales
1991Henry V
King Henry V
1991Henry VI: House of York
Jack Cade
1991Henry VI: House of Lancaster
Earl of Suffolk
1991Richard III
Duke of Buckingham
1987The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
1986The Marlowe Inquest
Thomas Kyd
1986Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Oedipus Rex
1985Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie