Michael Pennington
Born June 7, 1943 · 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 Iron Lady, opposite Meryl Streep.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Return of the Jedi
The Iron Lady
RSC Live: Richard II
Fragile
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Pyramid
Danton's Death
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1945: The Savage Peace
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
Henry VI: House of York
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
The Witches of Pendle
Cracker: White Ghost
Henry IV: Part 1
Hamlet
Henry IV: Part 2
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
Henry V
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
The Last Bolshevik
Richard III
Florence Nightingale
TV Shows
Theatre 625
Playhouse
Waking the Dead
ITV Playhouse
No Hiding Place
Lewis
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Dalziel and Pascoe
Endeavour
BBC2 Play of the Week
ScreenPlay
Public Eye
Between the Lines
Raised by Wolves
Callan
The Escape Artist
Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
State of Play
Armchair Theatre
Freud
Playing Shakespeare
Summer's Lease
The Lost World of Communism
Empire Warriors
