Michael Pennington
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Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (June 7, 1943 - May 10, 2026) was 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
Credits
Return of the Jedi (1983)
as Moff Jerjerrod
The Iron Lady (2011)
as Michael Foot
Fragile (2005)
as Marcus
1945: The Savage Peace (2015)
as Narrator (voice)
Pyramid (2002)
as Narrator (voice)
RSC Live: Richard II (2013)
as John of Gaunt
The Tycoon (1968)
as Peter Bell
Cracker: White Ghost (1996)
as Commander Gordon Ellison
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
as Oedipus Rex
Danton's Death (1978)
as Saint-Just
Richard III (1991)
as Duke of Buckingham
Henry V (1991)
as King Henry V
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
as Sherlock Holmes
Henry VI: House of York (1991)
as Jack Cade
Hamlet (1969)
as Laertes
Cymbeline (1983)
as Posthumus
Outside Edge (1982)
as Bob
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat (1978)
as E1A
The Witches of Pendle (1976)
as Minister
Mad Jack (1970)
Actor
Henry IV: Part 1 (1991)
as Prince Henry of Wales
The Marlowe Inquest (1986)
as Thomas Kyd
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words (2014)
as Narrator (Voice)
The Last Bolshevik (1994)
as Self (voice: English version)
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter (1981)
as John Lilburne
The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)
as William Buckland
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death (2003)
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
Florence Nightingale (2008)
as Wen
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (1977)
as Don Harris
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie (1985)
Actor
Henry VI: House of Lancaster (1991)
as Earl of Suffolk
The Dolly Scene (1970)
as Tom
Degas and Pissario Fall Out (1994)
as Degas
The Mayor of Montemilone (1984)
as Narrator
Henry IV: Part 2 (1991)
as Henry Prince of Wales
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali (2021)
as Narrator (voice)
Richard II (1991)
as Richard II
Waving to a Train (1984)
as Richard
Airborne: The RAF at 90 (2008)
as Narrator - (Voice)