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Michael Pennington

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.

  • Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
  • 1945: The Savage Peace
  • Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
  • RSC Live: Richard II
  • The Iron Lady
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Fragile
  • Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
  • The Dinosaur Hunters
  • Pyramid
  • Cracker: White Ghost
  • Degas and Pissario Fall Out
  • The Last Bolshevik
  • Richard II
  • Henry IV: Part 1
  • Henry IV: Part 2
  • Henry V
  • Henry VI: House of York
  • Henry VI: House of Lancaster
  • Richard III
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Marlowe Inquest
  • Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
  • Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
  • The Mayor of Montemilone
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Cymbeline
  • Outside Edge
  • A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
  • Danton's Death
  • Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
  • The Witches of Pendle
  • Mad Jack
  • Hamlet

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