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.
Michael Pennington Biography / Wiki
| Name | Michael Pennington |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | June 07, 1943 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 79 |
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Michael Pennington Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 1987-01-10 | Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson’s female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years…. |
| Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words | Narrator (Voice) | 2014-11-04 | The story of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and the discoveries they made…. |
| Theban Plays: Oedipus the King | Oedipus Rex | 1986-09-16 | Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king … |
| 1945: The Savage Peace | Narrator (voice) | 2015-05-24 | How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans… |
| The Mayor of Montemilone | Narrator | 1984-10-26 | Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town dyin… |
| The Marlowe Inquest | Thomas Kyd | 1986-09-03 | In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what re… |
| Florence Nightingale | Wen | 2008-06-01 | Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale… |
| Cymbeline | Posthumus | 1982-12-20 | Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who go… |
| Pyramid | Narrator (voice) | 2002-10-28 | Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that even with our 21st-century technology, we could n… |
| Mad Jack | 1970-02-04 | Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War… | |
| Outside Edge | Bob | 1982-12-19 | The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so good … |
| The Witches of Pendle | Minister | 1976-06-19 | A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616…. |
| Royal Shakespeare Company – Richard II | John of Gaunt | 2013-11-13 | A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of … |
| A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter | John Lilburne | 1981-01-30 | In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason… |
| Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali | Narrator (voice) | 2021-03-09 | A biographical documentary film about the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, to commemorate Ray’s centenary year. The film covers Ray’s life an… |
| Fragile | Marcus | 2005-10-14 | Haunted by memories of a patient’s death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that… |
| The Last Bolshevik | Voice | 1993-03-25 | A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia’s str… |
| Colosseum – Rome’s Arena of Death | Narrator (UK version) (voice) | 2003-10-12 | Colosseum: Rome’s Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator’s Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of Verus a gladiator… |
| Danton’s Death | Saint-Just | 1978-04-23 | Danton ‘s Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Biichner concentrates on that moment in 1794 wh… |
| Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie | 1985-03-26 | As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his lordship’s pol… | |
| Hamlet | Laertes | 1969-12-21 | Tony Richardson’s Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almo… |
| Return of the Jedi | Moff Jerjerrod | 1983-05-25 | Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion onc… |
| The Iron Lady | Michael Foot | 2011-12-26 | A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power…. |
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