Kenneth Colley
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1937-12-07
- Fallecimiento:
- 2025-06-30
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Manchester, England, UK
Biografía
Kenneth Colley (7 December 1937 — 30 June 2025) was an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Colley was born in Manchester. He played Jesus (very briefly indeed) in Life of Brian (1979), having also appeared in the earlier Python-related production Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" alongside Michael Palin. As a Shakespearean actor, he played the Duke of Vienna in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure (also 1979). Colley also held an important role in the Clint Eastwood film Firefox, as a Soviet Colonel tasked with the protection of the Firefox and its secrets. Colley portrayed SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel in the World War II drama War and Remembrance. His character was charged with hiding the evidence of the Holocaust, and putting dead victims through "Economic Processing". According to comments Terry Gilliam (who directed him in Jabberwocky and co-starred with him in Life of Brian) made in the DVD audio commentaries for both films, Colley is a terrible stutterer in real life. When he had a role in a film, however, he could recite the lines perfectly. Stuttering is a character trait, however, in his role as the "Accordion Man" in the BBC television drama Pennies from Heaven (1978). He has also recently starred in BBC's HolbyBlue as a drunk and violent father, grandfather and father-in-law. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Colley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmografía
El Instituto
Dan Hawk Psychic Detective
Scar Tissue
Peaky Blinders
Lego Star Wars: El imperio contra todos
Vera
The Queen
Misfits
Greetings
Like Father Like Son
New Tricks
The Royal
Foyle's War
Cazatesoros
Hold Back the Night
Always and Everyone
The Last Train
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
Fuera de cobertura
Los asesinatos de Midsomer
Tocando el viento
El último viaje de Robert Rylands
Salomón y la Reina de Saba
Wycliffe
Moving Story
Peak Practice
Propósitos Perversos
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
Between the Lines
Heartbeat
La vida de bohemia
Prisoner of Honor
The Last Island
Contraté a un asesino a sueldo
Kremlin Farewell
Complot para matar a Hitler
El arcoiris
A Master of the Marionettes
Agatha Christie: Poirot
Recuerdos de guerra
Aquel inolvidable verano
The Play on One
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Casanova
Inspector Morse
La sombra del delator
Casualty
John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Function Room
Wallenberg: La Historia de un Héroe
Screen Two
Return to Waterloo
El retorno del Jedi
Escarlata y negro
Giro City
Firefox. El arma definitiva
I Remember Nelson
The Kenny Everett Television Show
Pedro y Pablo
El imperio contraataca
Minder
La vida de Brian
The Danedyke Mystery
Measure for Measure
Los miserables
One Bummer News Day
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Pennies from Heaven
Come the Revolution
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Target
La bestia del reino
Dickens of London
Three Days in Szczecin
The Chester Mystery Plays
Ripping Yarns
Lisztomania
Flame
The Love School
The Sweeney
Churchill's People
El enigma se llama Juggernaut
Mahler. Una sombra en el pasado
La caída de las águilas
Black and Blue
Hitler: los diez últimos días
La máscara y la piel
Crown Court
The Protectors
New Scotland Yard
El novio
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Los demonios
La pasión de vivir
Play for Today
Performance.
Dance of the Seven Veils
Dear Mother... ...Love Albert
Judge Dee
Cause of Death
The Expert
El deseo y la bestia
Who Pays?
City '68
Cómo gané la guerra
Omnibus
Atraco a la inglesa
The Informer
Macbeth
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Three Clear Sundays
Redcap
The Wednesday Play
It's Dark Outside
Seventy Deadly Pills
Los vengadores
No Hiding Place
Armchair Theatre