Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington (82)

1943-06-07 | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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.

On Movies

  • The Iron Lady
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Fragile
  • Cracker: White Ghost
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
  • The Marlowe Inquest
  • Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Cymbeline
  • Outside Edge
  • A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
  • Danton's Death
  • The Witches of Pendle
  • Mad Jack
  • Hamlet

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