Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 7, 1943 (age 83)
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington
Michael Pennington
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 - Movies
Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod
The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot
Fragile
as Marcus
RSC Live: Richard II
as John of Gaunt
Hamlet
as Laertes
Pyramid
as Narrator (voice)
Cymbeline
as Posthumus
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Oedipus Rex
Cracker: White Ghost
as Commander Gordon Ellison
Known For - TV Shows
Silent Witness
as Dennis Morgan
Father Brown
as Bishop Reynard
Endeavour
as Professor Donald Bagley
Playhouse
as John Lilburne
Lewis
as Dr. Melville
Waking the Dead
as Prof Alan Macintosh
BBC Play of the Month
as St Just
BBC Play of the Month
as Alexei Turbin
Theatre 625
as Wulfnoth
Theatre 625
as Alexander