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.
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Filmography
all 52
Movies 28
TV Shows 24
Narrator 6
Voice 5
self 4
Narrator
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali (2021)
Movie
The Trust Voice (voice)
Raised by Wolves (2020)
TV
8.4
Narrator (voice)
1945: The Savage Peace (2015)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words (2014)
Movie
John of Gaunt
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II (2013)
Movie
Judge
The Escape Artist (2013)
TV
3.5
Professor Donald Bagley
Endeavour (2013)
TV
5.22
Bishop Reynard
Father Brown (2013)
TV
8
Michael Foot
The Iron Lady (2011)
Movie
5.13
Narrator
The Lost World of Communism (2009)
TV
Narrator - (Voice)
Airborne: The RAF at 90 (2008)
Movie
Wen
Florence Nightingale (2008)
Movie
Dr. Melville
Lewis (2007)
TV
6
Self - Narrator
The Da Vinci Code: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (2006)
Movie
Marcus
Fragile (2005)
Movie
6
(Narrator)
Empire Warriors (2004)
TV
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death (2003)
Movie
State of Play (2003)
TV
6
William Buckland
The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)
Movie
Narrator (voice)
Pyramid (2002)
Movie
Prof Alan Macintosh
Waking the Dead (2001)
TV
4.67
Trial & Retribution (1997)
TV
Dalziel & Pascoe (1996)
TV
6
Dennis Morgan
Silent Witness (1996)
TV
5.5
Voice
The Last Bolshevik (1993)
Movie
Between the Lines (1992)
TV
Self - Narrator
Secret History (1991)
TV
Hugh Pargeter
Summer's Lease (1989)
TV
Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
Movie
Oedipus Rex
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
Movie
Thomas Kyd
The Marlowe Inquest (1986)
Movie
Narrator
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie (1985)
Movie
Narrator
Oscar (1985)
TV
Narrator
The Mayor of Montemilone (1984)
Movie
Carl Jung
Freud (1984)
TV
Self
Playing Shakespeare (1984)
TV
Moff Jerjerrod
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Movie
6.06
Posthumus
Cymbeline (1982)
Movie
Bob
Outside Edge (1982)
Movie
John Lilburne
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter (1981)
Movie
BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
TV
Saint-Just
Danton's Death (1978)
Movie
Minister
The Witches of Pendle (1976)
Movie
Geoffrey Cromlech
Mad Jack (1970)
Movie
Laertes
Hamlet (1969)
Movie
Callan (1967)
TV
Adrian
The Space Kidettes (1966)
TV
Alexei Turbin
BBC Play of the Month (1965)
TV
Duke of Buckingham / Earl of Suffolk / Henry Prince of Wales
The Wars of the Roses (1965)
Movie
John Sheldon
Public Eye (1965)
TV
No Hiding Place (1959)
TV
Degas
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
Movie
Ratings
Average 6.21
Based on 1.46 Million movie and tv ratings over time
1959
1982
1993
1985
2021
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1943-06-07 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceCambridge, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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