Acting
Michael Pennington
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (June 7, 1943 - May 10, 2026) was 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.
Titles
Silent Witness
1996
Father Brown
2013
The Wednesday Play
1964
ITV Playhouse
1967
Endeavour
2013
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Lewis
2007
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Waking the Dead
2001
Playhouse
1974
Theatre 625
1964
Return of the Jedi
1983
No Hiding Place
1959
Raised by Wolves
2020
Between the Lines
1992
ScreenPlay
1986
Public Eye
1965
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Callan
1967
The Iron Lady
2011
State of Play
2003
The Escape Artist
2013
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001
Fragile
2005
RSC Live: Richard II
2013
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Freud
1984
Armchair Theatre
1956
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
2022
Summer's Lease
1989
Richard III
1991
Pyramid
2002
Henry V
1991
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
Cracker: White Ghost
1996