Acting · geboren 1943-06-07 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Michael Pennington

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.

Bekannt aus

• Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter (1983) – Moff Jerjerrod
• Die Eiserne Lady (2011) – Michael Foot
• Raised by Wolves (2020) – The Trust (voice)
• Fragile (2005) – Marcus
• Der junge Inspektor Morse (2013) – Professor Donald Bagley
• Father Brown (2013) – Bishop Reynard
• Lewis - Der Oxford Krimi (2007) – Dr. Melville
• State of Play - Mord auf Seite eins (2003) – Richard Siegler
• Silent Witness (1996) – Dennis Morgan
• Der Anwalt des Teufels (2013) – Judge
• Waking the Dead - Im Auftrag der Toten (2001) – Prof Alan Macintosh
• Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) – Hartley Culpepper
• Le Tombeau d'Alexandre (1994) – Self (voice: English version)
• Hamlet (1969) – Laertes
• Between the Lines (1992)
• The Savage Peace (2015) – Narrator (voice)
• Callan (1967)
• Cymbeline (1983) – Posthumus
• RSC Live: Richard II (2013) – John of Gaunt
• Summer's Lease (1989) – Hugh Pargeter
• BBC Play of the Month (1965) – St Just
• Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) – Martin
• Public Eye (1965) – John Sheldon
• Eine Pfeife in Amerika (1987) – Sherlock Holmes
• The Lost World of Communism (2009)
• Dr. Schrecklich's Haus des Horrors (2001) – Priest
• Armchair Theatre (1956) – Adrian
• Theatre 625 (1964) – Wulfnoth
• The Wednesday Play (1964) – Geoffrey Cromlech
• Colosseum - Arena des Todes (2003) – Narrator (voice)
• Florence Nightingale (2008) – Wen
• No Hiding Place (1959)
• Die Pyramide - Die letzten Geheimnisse der Cheops-Pyramide (2002) – Narrator (voice)
• Playing Shakespeare (1984)
• Freud (1984) – Carl Jung
• ITV Playhouse (1967) – Lancelot Wishart
• The Marlowe Inquest (1986) – Thomas Kyd
• The Dinosaur Hunters (2002) – William Buckland
• Outside Edge (1982) – Bob
• The Witches of Pendle (1976) – Minister