Michael Pennington

Actor

Born: June 7, 1943 (82 years old)

Place of birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Biography

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.

Filmography (27)

• The Last Bolshevik (1994, ★ 7.5)
• Return of the Jedi (1983, ★ 7.9)
• 1945: The Savage Peace (2015, ★ 7.6)
• Lewis (2007, ★ 7.6)
• Silent Witness (1996, ★ 7.5)
• Fragile (2005, ★ 6.5)
• RSC Live: Richard II (2013, ★ 7.4)
• State of Play (2003, ★ 7.4)
• Summer's Lease (1989, ★ 7.3)
• Endeavour (2013, ★ 8.1)
• Callan (1967, ★ 7)
• Waking the Dead (2001, ★ 7.2)
• Father Brown (2013, ★ 7.6)
• Raised by Wolves (2020, ★ 7.5)
• Public Eye (1965, ★ 7.8)
• The Iron Lady (2011, ★ 6.4)
• Trial & Retribution (1997, ★ 6.8)
• The Escape Artist (2013, ★ 7.1)
• Hamlet (1969, ★ 5.7)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987, ★ 5.4)
• Cymbeline (1983, ★ 5.7)
• Dalziel & Pascoe (1996, ★ 6.3)
• Between the Lines (1992, ★ 5.2)
• The Lost World of Communism (2009, ★ 6)
• Dr Terrible's House of Horrible (2001, ★ 6.6)
• BBC Play of the Month (1965, ★ 5)
• Armchair Theatre (1956, ★ 5.8)