Acting
Michael Pennington
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (June 7, 1943 - May 10, 2026) was a British actor and director 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 Tiaan 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.
Titles
Silent Witness
1996
Father Brown
2013
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Wednesday Play
1964
Lewis
2007
Waking the Dead
2001
ITV Playhouse
1967
Endeavour
2013
No Hiding Place
1959
Theatre 625
1964
Playhouse
1974
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
ScreenPlay
1986
Return of the Jedi
1983
Raised by Wolves
2020
Public Eye
1965
Between the Lines
1992
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Callan
1967
Playing Shakespeare
1984
The Iron Lady
2011
State of Play
2003
The Escape Artist
2013
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001
Armchair Theatre
1956
Freud
1984
Fragile
2005
Summer's Lease
1989
RSC Live: Richard II
2013
The Last Bolshevik
1994
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
Cracker: White Ghost
1996
The Lost World of Communism
2009
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978