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Michael Pennington

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: Acting

Born: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, 1943-06-07

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	The Tycoon	Peter Bell	0
2	1969	Hamlet	Laertes	57
3	1970	Mad Jack		0
4	1970	The Dolly Scene	Tom	0
5	1976	The Witches of Pendle	Minister	0
6	1977	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	Don Harris	0
7	1978	Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat	E1A	0
8	1978	Danton's Death	Saint-Just	0
9	1981	A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter	John Lilburne	0
10	1982	Outside Edge	Bob	60
11	1982	Cymbeline	Posthumus	66
12	1983	Return of the Jedi	Moff Jerjerrod	79
13	1984	The Mayor of Montemilone	Narrator	50
14	1985	Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie		0
15	1986	The Marlowe Inquest	Thomas Kyd	10
16	1986	Theban Plays: Oedipus the King	Oedipus Rex	20
17	1987	The Return of Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes	52
18	1991	Richard II	Richard II	0
19	1991	Henry IV: Part 1	Prince Henry of Wales	0
20	1991	Henry IV: Part 2	Henry Prince of Wales	0
21	1991	Henry V	King Henry V	0
22	1991	Henry VI: House of York	Jack Cade	0
23	1991	Henry VI: House of Lancaster	Earl of Suffolk	0
24	1991	Richard III	Duke of Buckingham	0
25	1993	The Last Bolshevik	Voice	73
26	1994	Degas and Pissario Fall Out	Degas	0
27	1996	Cracker: White Ghost	Commander Gordon Ellison	70
28	2002	Pyramid	Narrator (voice)	60
29	2002	The Dinosaur Hunters	William Buckland	50
30	2003	Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death	Narrator (UK version) (voice)	72
31	2005	Fragile	Marcus	66
32	2008	Florence Nightingale	Wen	60
33	2008	Airborne: The RAF at 90	Narrator - (Voice)	0
34	2011	The Iron Lady	Michael Foot	64
35	2013	Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II	John of Gaunt	75
36	2014	Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words	Narrator (Voice)	70
37	2015	1945: The Savage Peace	Narrator (voice)	75
38	2021	Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali	Narrator (voice)	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	No Hiding Place		37
2	1965	Public Eye	John Sheldon	78
3	1965	BBC Play of the Month	St Just	50
4	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Alexei Turbin	50
5	1967	Callan		70
6	1974	Playhouse	John Lilburne	70
7	1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	E1A	70
8	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Posthumus	60
9	1984	Playing Shakespeare		100
10	1984	Freud	Carl Jung	30
11	1989	Summer's Lease	Hugh Pargeter	75
12	1992	Between the Lines		56
13	1996	Silent Witness	Dennis Morgan	76
14	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe		64
15	1997	Trial & Retribution		68
16	2001	Waking the Dead	Prof Alan Macintosh	72
17	2003	State of Play		75
18	2004	Empire Warriors	Narrator	0
19	2007	Lewis	Dr. Melville	76
20	2009	The Lost World of Communism		60
21	2013	Father Brown	Bishop Reynard	75
22	2013	Endeavour	Professor Donald Bagley	81
23	2013	The Escape Artist	Judge	70
24	2020	Raised by Wolves	The Trust Voice (voice)	75