Michael Pennington
Born: 1943-06-07
• Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
1945: The Savage Peace
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
RSC Live: Richard II
The Iron Lady
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Airborne: The RAF at 90
Florence Nightingale
Fragile
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
The Dinosaur Hunters
Pyramid
Cracker: White Ghost
The Last Bolshevik
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
Richard II
Henry IV: Part 1
Henry IV: Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI: House of York
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
Richard III
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
The Marlowe Inquest
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
The Mayor of Montemilone
Cymbeline
Return of the Jedi
Outside Edge
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
Danton's Death
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
The Witches of Pendle
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The Dolly Scene
Mad Jack
Hamlet
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The Tycoon