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

Father Brown

Bishop Reynard

Endeavour

Professor Donald Bagley

Silent Witness

Dennis Morgan

Lewis

Dr. Melville

Waking the Dead

Prof Alan Macintosh

BBC Play of the Month

St Just

BBC Play of the Month

Alexei Turbin

Raised by Wolves

The Trust Voice (voice)

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2021	Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali	Narrator (voice)
2015	1945: The Savage Peace	Narrator (voice)
2014	Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words	Narrator (Voice)
2013	Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II	John of Gaunt
2011	The Iron Lady	Michael Foot
2008	Airborne: The RAF at 90	Narrator - (Voice)
2008	Florence Nightingale	Wen
2005	Fragile	Marcus
2003	Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death	Narrator (UK version) (voice)
2002	The Dinosaur Hunters	William Buckland
2002	Pyramid	Narrator (voice)
1996	Cracker: White Ghost	Commander Gordon Ellison
1994	Degas and Pissario Fall Out	Degas
1994	The Last Bolshevik	Self (voice: English version)
1991	Richard II	Richard II
1991	Henry IV: Part 1	Prince Henry of Wales
1991	Henry IV: Part 2	Henry Prince of Wales
1991	Henry V	King Henry V
1991	Henry VI: House of Lancaster	Earl of Suffolk
1991	Henry VI: House of York	Jack Cade
1991	Richard III	Duke of Buckingham
1987	The Return of Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock Holmes
1986	The Marlowe Inquest	Thomas Kyd
1986	Theban Plays: Oedipus the King	Oedipus Rex
1985	Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1984	The Mayor of Montemilone	Narrator
1983	Return of the Jedi	Moff Jerjerrod
1983	Cymbeline	Posthumus
1982	Outside Edge	Bob
1981	A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter	John Lilburne
1978	Danton's Death	Saint-Just
1978	Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat	E1A
1977	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	Don Harris
1976	The Witches of Pendle	Minister
1970	Mad Jack
1970	The Dolly Scene	Tom
1969	Hamlet	Laertes
1968	The Tycoon	Peter Bell

Year	TV Show	Role
2020	Raised by Wolves	The Trust Voice (voice)
2013	Father Brown	Bishop Reynard
2013	Endeavour	Professor Donald Bagley
2013	The Escape Artist	Judge
2009	The Lost World of Communism
2007	Lewis	Dr. Melville
2004	Empire Warriors	Narrator
2003	State of Play	Richard Siegler
2001	Waking the Dead	Prof Alan Macintosh
1997	Trial & Retribution
1996	Silent Witness	Dennis Morgan
1996	Dalziel & Pascoe
1992	Between the Lines
1989	Summer's Lease	Hugh Pargeter
1984	Freud	Carl Jung
1984	Playing Shakespeare
1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	E1A
1974	Playhouse	John Lilburne
1967	Callan
1965	Public Eye	John Sheldon
1965	BBC Play of the Month	St Just
1965	BBC Play of the Month	Alexei Turbin
1964	Theatre 625	Wulfnoth
1964	Theatre 625	Alexander
1959	No Hiding Place