Michael Pennington
Acting
Born: 1943-06-07 in 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
Father Brown
Bishop Reynard
Silent Witness
Dennis Morgan
Lewis
Dr. Melville
BBC Play of the Month
St Just
BBC Play of the Month
Alexei Turbin
Waking the Dead
Prof Alan Macintosh
Endeavour
Professor Donald Bagley
The Wednesday Play
Geoffrey Cromlech
ITV Playhouse
Lancelot Wishart
Playhouse
John Lilburne
No Hiding Place
Theatre 625
Wulfnoth
Theatre 625
Alexander
Raised by Wolves
The Trust (voice)
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Martin
Return of the Jedi
Moff Jerjerrod
Freud
Carl Jung
Dalziel and Pascoe
Hartley Culpepper
Between the Lines
ScreenPlay
Thomas Kyd
Public Eye
John Sheldon
BBC2 Play of the Week
E1A
State of Play
Richard Siegler
The Iron Lady
Michael Foot
Callan
The Escape Artist
Judge
Fragile
Marcus
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
Priest
Playing Shakespeare
Richard III
Duke of Buckingham
RSC Live: Richard II
John of Gaunt
Armchair Theatre
Adrian
Armchair Theatre
Tom
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
Narrator ( Voice)