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