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Michael Pennington
Acting
Born: June 7, 1943
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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.
Known For
Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod
The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
as Narrator (voice)
Fragile
as Marcus
Hamlet
as Laertes
1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice)
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
as John of Gaunt
Cymbeline
as Posthumus
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Oedipus Rex
Florence Nightingale
as Wen
