Michael Pennington
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 7, 1943
- Died
- May 10, 2026 (aged 82)
- Place of birth
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Credits
- 73
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
Filmography
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021Movie
Narrator (voice)
Raised by Wolves
2020TV
The Trust (voice)
1945: The Savage Peace
2015Movie
Narrator (voice)
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2014Movie
Narrator (Voice)
RSC Live: Richard II
2013Movie
John of Gaunt
The Escape Artist
2013TV
Judge
Endeavour
2013TV
Professor Donald Bagley
Father Brown
2013TV
Bishop Reynard
The Iron Lady
2011Movie
Michael Foot
The Lost World of Communism
2009TV
Airborne: The RAF at 90
2008Movie
Narrator - (Voice)
Florence Nightingale
2008Movie
Wen
Lewis
2007TV
Dr. Melville
Fragile
2005Movie
Marcus
Empire Warriors
2004TV
Narrator
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003Movie
Narrator (voice)
State of Play
2003TV
Richard Siegler
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002Movie
William Buckland
Pyramid
2002Movie
Narrator (voice)
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001TV
Priest
Waking the Dead
2001TV
Prof Alan Macintosh
Cracker: White Ghost
1996Movie
Commander Gordon Ellison
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996TV
Hartley Culpepper
Silent Witness
1996TV
Dennis Morgan
The Last Bolshevik
1994Movie
Self (voice: English version)
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
1994Movie
Degas
Between the Lines
1992TV
In My Defence
1991TV
Franz Jagerstatter
Richard II
1991Movie
Richard II
Henry IV: Part 1
1991Movie
Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2
1991Movie
Henry Prince of Wales
Henry V
1991Movie
King Henry V
Henry VI: House of York
1991Movie
Jack Cade
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991Movie
Earl of Suffolk
Richard III
1991Movie
Duke of Buckingham
Summer's Lease
1989TV
Hugh Pargeter
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987Movie
Sherlock Holmes
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986Movie
Oedipus Rex
The Marlowe Inquest
1986Movie
Thomas Kyd
ScreenPlay
1986TV
Thomas Kyd
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985Movie
The Mayor of Montemilone
1984Movie
Narrator
Italians
1984TV
Narrator
Freud
1984TV
Carl Jung
Playing Shakespeare
1984TV
Waving to a Train
1984Movie
Richard
Cymbeline
1983Movie
Posthumus
Return of the Jedi
1983Movie
Moff Jerjerrod
Outside Edge
1982Movie
Bob
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981Movie
John Lilburne
Danton's Death
1978Movie
Saint-Just
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978Movie
E1A
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977TV
E1A
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977Movie
Don Harris
The Witches of Pendle
1976Movie
Minister
Playhouse
1974TV
John Lilburne
No Exit
1972TV
Ian Strawson
The Dolly Scene
1970Movie
Tom
Mad Jack
1970Movie
Hamlet
1969Movie
Laertes
W. Somerset Maugham
1969TV
Hans
The Tycoon
1968Movie
Peter Bell
The Root of All Evil?
1968TV
Clive Pinner
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
Lancelot Wishart
Callan
1967TV
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
St Just, Alexei Turbin
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
Martin
Public Eye
1965TV
John Sheldon
The Wednesday Play
1964TV
Geoffrey Cromlech
Theatre 625
1964TV
Wulfnoth, Alexander
Drama 61-67
1961TV
First youth
No Hiding Place
1959TV
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Adrian, Tom