
Michael Pennington
Born: 1943-06-07
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For

Return of the Jedi
1983★ 7.9

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003★ 7.2

Fragile
2005★ 6.5

Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2014★ 7.0

The Iron Lady
2011★ 6.4

Florence Nightingale
2008★ 6.0

Hamlet
1969★ 5.7

Pyramid
2002★ 6.0

The Dinosaur Hunters
2002★ 5.0

Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991★ 0.0

Cymbeline
1983★ 5.7

The Mayor of Montemilone
1984★ 5.0

Richard II
1991★ 0.0

Henry VI: House of York
1991★ 0.0

The Witches of Pendle
1976★ 1.0

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987★ 5.4

RSC Live: Richard II
2013★ 7.5

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986★ 2.0

Henry V
1991★ 0.0

1945: The Savage Peace
2015★ 7.5

Richard III
1991★ 0.0

The Last Bolshevik
1994★ 7.3

Cracker: White Ghost
1996★ 7.0

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978★ 0.0

Degas and Pissario Fall Out
1994★ 0.0

A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981★ 0.0

Danton's Death
1978★ 0.0

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985★ 0.0

Mad Jack
1970★ 0.0

Henry IV: Part 2
1991★ 0.0

Outside Edge
1982★ 6.0

The Marlowe Inquest
1986★ 1.0

Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021★ 6.0

Henry IV: Part 1
1991★ 0.0