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