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.
66 acting credits
Acting · 66
Silent Witness
1996
Father Brown
2013
Endeavour
2013
Waking the Dead
2001
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Playhouse
1974
Lewis
2007
ITV Playhouse
1967
Theatre 625
1964
No Hiding Place
1959
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Raised by Wolves
2020
Between the Lines
1992
Return of the Jedi
1983
Public Eye
1965
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Drama 61-67
1961
ScreenPlay
1986
Callan
1967
State of Play
2003
Playing Shakespeare
1984
The Escape Artist
2013
The Iron Lady
2011
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
2001
Armchair Theatre
1956
Freud
1984
Summer's Lease
1989
Fragile
2005
Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
2022
Cymbeline
1983
Hamlet
1969
Outside Edge
1982
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
The Marlowe Inquest
1986
RSC Live: Richard II
2013
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
1985
Cracker: White Ghost
1996
1945: The Savage Peace
2015
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
2003
Empire Warriors
2004
The Mayor of Montemilone
1984
Danton's Death
1978
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1977
The Last Bolshevik
1994
Pyramid
2002
Richard III
1991
The Dinosaur Hunters
2002
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1981
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2021
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2014
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991
Florence Nightingale
2008
The Lost World of Communism
2009
Henry VI: House of York
1991
The Dolly Scene
1970
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978
Henry IV: Part 1
1991
The Witches of Pendle
1976
Henry IV: Part 2
1991
Henry V
1991
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
1994
Mad Jack
1970
The Tycoon
1968
Richard II
1991
Airborne: The RAF at 90
2008