
Michael Pennington
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1943-06-07
- Décès:
- 2026-05-10
- Lieu de naissance:
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Biographie
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (June 7, 1943 - May 10, 2026) was a British actor and director 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 Tiaan 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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Filmographie

Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali

Raised by Wolves

The Savage Peace

Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words

RSC Live: Richard II

Perfect Crime

Les Enquêtes de Morse

Father Brown

La Dame de fer

The Lost World of Communism
Airborne: The RAF at 90

Florence Nightingale

Inspecteur Lewis

Fragile

Empire Warriors

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

Jeux de pouvoir

The Dinosaur Hunters

Pyramid

Dr Terrible's House of Horrible

Meurtres en sommeil

Cracker: White Ghost

Dalziel and Pascoe

Affaires non classées

Le Tombeau d'Alexandre

Degas and Pissario Fall Out

Between the Lines
In My Defence

Richard II

Henry IV: Part 1

Henry IV: Part 2

Henry V

Henry VI: House of York

Henry VI: House of Lancaster

Richard III

Summer's Lease

Le retour de Sherlock Holmes

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

The Marlowe Inquest

ScreenPlay

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie

The Mayor of Montemilone

Italians

Freud

Playing Shakespeare
Waving to a Train

Cymbeline

Le Retour du Jedi

Outside Edge

A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter

Danton's Death

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat

BBC2 Play of the Week
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

The Witches of Pendle

Playhouse
No Exit
The Dolly Scene

Mad Jack

Hamlet
W. Somerset Maugham
The Tycoon
The Root of All Evil?

ITV Playhouse

Callan

BBC Play of the Month

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Public Eye

The Wednesday Play

Theatre 625
Drama 61-67

No Hiding Place

Armchair Theatre