Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/7/1943
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
Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod
Fragile
as Marcus
Cymbeline
as Posthumus
Outside Edge
as Bob
Hamlet
as Laertes
The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot
Pyramid
as Narrator (voice)
Florence Nightingale
as Wen
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
as John Lilburne
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
as Narrator (Voice)
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
Richard II
as Richard II
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
The Dinosaur Hunters
as William Buckland
Danton's Death
as Saint-Just
1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice)
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
as John of Gaunt
Richard III
as Duke of Buckingham
Henry V
as King Henry V
Cracker: White Ghost
as Commander Gordon Ellison