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.
Acting
Movie
Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod
1983
Movie
The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot
2011
TV
Raised by Wolves
as The Trust Voice (voice)
2020
Movie
Fragile
as Marcus
2005
TV
Endeavour
as Professor Donald Bagley
2013
TV
Father Brown
as Bishop Reynard
2013
TV
Lewis
as Dr. Melville
2007
TV
State of Play
as Richard Siegler
2003
TV
Silent Witness
as Dennis Morgan
1996
TV
The Escape Artist
as Judge
2013
TV
Waking the Dead
as Prof Alan Macintosh
2001
TV
Dalziel and Pascoe
as Hartley Culpepper
1996
Movie
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (voice: English version)
1994
Movie
Hamlet
as Laertes
1969
TV
Between the Lines
1992
Movie
1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice)
2015
TV
Callan
1967
TV
Summer's Lease
as Hugh Pargeter
1989
TV
BBC Play of the Month
as St Just
1965
TV
BBC Play of the Month
as Alexei Turbin
1965
Movie
Cymbeline
as Posthumus
1983
Movie
RSC Live: Richard II
as John of Gaunt
2013
Movie
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes
1987
TV
The Lost World of Communism
2009