Michael Pennington
Acting
Born June 7, 1943 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Biography
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (June 7, 1943 - May 10, 2026) was 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.
Known For · 40 titles
Father Brown
Silent Witness
BBC Play of the Month
Theatre 625
The Wednesday Play
Playhouse
Endeavour
Lewis
ITV Playhouse
Waking the Dead
Thirty-Minute Theatre
BBC2 Play of the Week
No Hiding Place
ScreenPlay
Dalziel and Pascoe
Return of the Jedi
Raised by Wolves
Public Eye
Drama 61-67
Between the Lines
Callan
State of Play
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
W. Somerset Maugham
The Iron Lady
The Escape Artist
Playing Shakespeare
Fragile
Armchair Theatre
Freud
The Root of All Evil?
RSC Live: Richard II
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
Summer's Lease
Richard III
Cracker: White Ghost
No Exit
The Lost World of Communism
The Last Bolshevik
1945: The Savage Peace