Kenneth Colley

Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Colley was born in Manchester. He played Jesus (very briefly indeed) in The Life of Brian, having also appeared in the earlier Monty Python-related production Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" alongside Michael Palin. As a Shakespearean actor he played the Duke of Vienna in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure in 1979. Colley also held an important role in the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox, where he played a Soviet Colonel tasked with the protection of the Firefox and its secrets. Colley went on to play SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel in the World War II drama War and Remembrance. His character was charged with hiding the evidence of the Holocaust, and putting dead victims through "Economic Processing". According to comments Terry Gilliam (who directed him in Jabberwocky and co-starred with him in Life of Brian) made in the DVD audio commentaries for both films, Colley is a terrible stutterer in real life. When he had a role in a film, however, he could recite the lines perfectly. Stuttering is a character trait, however, in his role as the "Accordion Man" in the 1978 BBC television drama, Pennies from Heaven. He has also recently starred in BBC's HolbyBlue as a drunk and violent father, grandfather and father-in-law. He currently lives at Hythe in Kent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Colley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Manchester, England, UK, 1937-12-07

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	Seventy Deadly Pills	Covent Garden porter	60
2	1965	Three Clear Sundays	Nick	50
3	1967	The Jokers	De Winter	60
4	1967	How I Won the War	2nd Replacement	55
5	1968	Who Pays?	Corbett	0
6	1968	The Blood Beast Terror	James	55
7	1970	Dance of the Seven Veils		80
8	1970	Performance	Tony Farrell (as Ken Colley)	67
9	1971	The Music Lovers	Modeste Tchaikovsky	66
10	1971	The Devils	Legrand	75
11	1971	The Boy Friend	King in fantasy sequence (uncredited)	66
12	1972	The Triple Echo	Provo Corporal	60
13	1973	Hitler: The Last Ten Days	Boldt	61
14	1974	Mahler	Krenek	67
15	1974	Juggernaut	Detective Brown	62
16	1975	Flame	Tony Devlin	72
17	1975	Lisztomania	Frederic Chopin	60
18	1977	Jabberwocky	1st Fanatic	61
19	1977	The Testing of Eric Olthwaite	Robber	70
20	1977	Come the Revolution	Bruce Tetley	0
21	1978	One Bummer News Day	Frank Benyon	0
22	1978	Les Misérables	Police Prefect	72
23	1979	Measure for Measure	Duke Vincentio	60
24	1979	The Danedyke Mystery	The Major	0
25	1979	Life of Brian	Jesus	78
26	1980	The Empire Strikes Back	Admiral Piett	84
27	1982	I Remember Nelson	Vice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson	0
28	1982	Firefox	Colonel Kontarsky	60
29	1982	Giro City	Martin	50
30	1983	The Scarlet and the Black	Capt. Hirsch	70
31	1983	Return of the Jedi	Admiral Piett	79
32	1984	Return to Waterloo	The Traveller	67
33	1986	The Whistle Blower	Bill Pickett	58
34	1987	Casanova	Le Duc	42
35	1988	A Summer Story	Jim	62
36	1989	A Master of the Marionettes	Inspector Tennyson	0
37	1989	The Rainbow	Mr. Brunt	57
38	1990	The Plot to Kill Hitler	Wilhelm Keitel	60
39	1990	Kremlin Farewell	Sergej	0
40	1990	I Hired a Contract Killer	The Killer	69
41	1990	The Last Island	Nick	57
42	1991	Prisoner of Honor	Capt. Dreyfus	62
43	1992	La Vie de Bohème	Street Sweeper	75
44	1992	The Secret Life of Arnold Bax	John Ireland	60
45	1993	Unnatural Causes	Inspector Gerry Reckless	0
46	1995	Solomon & Sheba	Nathan	62
47	1996	Robert Rylands' Last Journey	Archdale	61
48	1996	Brassed Off	Greasley	70
49	1998	Shadow Run	Larcombe	38
50	1999	Hold Back the Night	Uncle Bob	52
51	2005	Like Father Like Son	Rawsthorne	67
52	2007	Greetings	Ken	10
53	2012	LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out	Admiral Piett (voice)	64
54	2013	Scar Tissue	Weaver	55
55	2024	Dan Hawk Psychic Detective	Thaddeus Moncrief	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	No Hiding Place		37
2	1961	The Avengers		77
3	1961	A for Andromeda	Dead Body (uncredited)	50
4	1964	The Wednesday Play	Bethold Florenberg	45
5	1965	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Paddy	38
6	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Yolinichev	50
7	1967	Omnibus	Hitler	72
8	1968	The Expert	Foreman	100
9	1968	The Expert	Munt	100
10	1969	Judge Dee		50
11	1969	Dear Mother... ...Love Albert		55
12	1970	Play for Today	Bruce Tetley	63
13	1970	Play for Today	Frank Benyon	63
14	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Farrish	73
15	1972	The Protectors	Devlin	56
16	1972	Crown Court	Stanley Meredith	54
17	1974	Fall of Eagles	Father Gapon	68
18	1975	The Sweeney	Noah Riley	77
19	1975	The Love School	Edward Burne-Jones	0
20	1976	Ripping Yarns	Robber	74
21	1976	Dickens of London	Robert Seymour	65
22	1978	Hazell		53
23	1978	Pennies from Heaven	The Accordion Man	76
24	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Duke	60
25	1979	Minder	Ron	68
26	1981	Peter and Paul	Theodotus	70
27	1982	The Kenny Everett Television Show	Self	70
28	1982	I Remember Nelson	ice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson	40
29	1985	Wallenberg: A Hero's Story	Adolf Eichmann	60
30	1985	Mussolini: The Untold Story	King Vittorio Emmanuele	53
31	1986	John Silver's Return to Treasure Island	Ben Gunn	70
32	1986	Casualty	Paddy	61
33	1986	Casualty	Clifford Watkins	61
34	1986	Casualty	Arthur Cobb	61
35	1987	Inspector Morse	DCI Patrick Dawson	78
36	1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Chief Inspector Heat	0
37	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Mathew Davenheim	82
38	1992	Heartbeat	Clive Harris	71
39	1992	Between the Lines	Chief Supt. Tattersall	56
40	1993	Peak Practice	Stan Jordan	61
41	1994	Wycliffe	Sam Peploe	60
42	1997	Midsomer Murders	Lloyd Kirby	75
43	1998	The Mrs Bradley Mysteries	Archie Burlington	69
44	1999	The Last Train		73
45	1999	Always and Everyone	Joseph	90
46	1999	Relic Hunter	Professor Lamenza	67
47	2002	Foyle's War	Brian Jones	79
48	2003	The Royal	Bernard Hussey	76
49	2004	New Tricks		74
50	2009	Misfits	Old Rudy	76
51	2009	The Queen		70
52	2011	Vera	Ronald Devreux	74
53	2013	Peaky Blinders	Vicente Changretta	85

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