Michael Pennington
Acting
Biography
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington is 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.
Born: June 7, 1943
Place of Birth: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Known For
Playing Shakespeare
John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples.
Endeavour
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
Return of the Jedi
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor.
Public Eye
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
Lewis
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Father Brown
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
Raised by Wolves
After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.
1945: The Savage Peace
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans who had lived peacefully for centuries in Germany's neighboring countries, such as Czechoslovakia and Poland. A heartbreaking story of revenge against innocent civilians, the story of acts as cruel as the Nazi occupation during the war years.
RSC Live: Richard II
A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
Silent Witness
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
Filmography
as Narrator (voice)
as The Trust Voice (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (Voice)
as John of Gaunt
as Judge
as Professor Donald Bagley
as Bishop Reynard
as Michael Foot
as Wen
as Dr. Melville
as Marcus
as Narrator
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
as Richard Siegler
as William Buckland
as Narrator (voice)
as Prof Alan Macintosh
as Commander Gordon Ellison
as Dennis Morgan
as Self (voice: English version)
as Degas
as Richard II
as Prince Henry of Wales
as Henry Prince of Wales
as King Henry V
as Jack Cade
as Earl of Suffolk
as Duke of Buckingham
as Hugh Pargeter
as Sherlock Holmes
as Oedipus Rex
as Thomas Kyd
as Narrator
as Carl Jung
as Posthumus
as Moff Jerjerrod
as Bob
as John Lilburne
as Saint-Just
as E1A
as E1A
as Minister
as John Lilburne
as Laertes
as St Just
as Alexei Turbin
as John Sheldon
as Wulfnoth
as Alexander