Michael Pennington

Actor

Born: June 7, 1943
Died: May 10, 2026 (age 82)
From: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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…

Filmography (39)

Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali (2021)
Narrator (voice)
1945: The Savage Peace (2015)
Narrator (voice)
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words (2014)
Narrator (Voice)
RSC Live: Richard II (2013)
John of Gaunt
The Iron Lady (2011)
Michael Foot
Airborne: The RAF at 90
Airborne: The RAF at 90 (2008)
Narrator - (Voice)
Florence Nightingale (2008)
Wen
Fragile (2005)
Marcus
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death (2003)
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)
William Buckland
Pyramid (2002)
Narrator (voice)
Cracker: White Ghost (1996)
Commander Gordon Ellison
The Last Bolshevik (1994)
Self (voice: English version)
Degas and Pissario Fall Out (1994)
Degas
Richard II (1991)
Richard II
Henry IV: Part 1 (1991)
Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2 (1991)
Henry Prince of Wales
Henry V (1991)
King Henry V
Henry VI: House of Lancaster (1991)
Earl of Suffolk
Henry VI: House of York (1991)
Jack Cade
Richard III (1991)
Duke of Buckingham
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
Sherlock Holmes
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986)
Oedipus Rex
The Marlowe Inquest (1986)
Thomas Kyd
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie (1985)
The Mayor of Montemilone (1984)
Narrator
Waving to a Train
Waving to a Train (1984)
Richard
Cymbeline (1983)
Posthumus
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Moff Jerjerrod
Outside Edge (1982)
Bob