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.
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
As Narrator (UK version) (voice)
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
As John Lilburne
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
As Degas
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
As Narrator (voice)
Fragile
As Marcus
The Marlowe Inquest
As Thomas Kyd
The Last Bolshevik
As Voice
Return of the Jedi
As Moff Jerjerrod
Hamlet
As Laertes
Airborne: The RAF at 90
As Narrator - (Voice)
The Dinosaur Hunters
As William Buckland
The Tycoon
As Peter Bell
Mad Jack
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
As Don Harris
Danton's Death
As Saint-Just
Richard II
As Richard II
Henry IV: Part 1
As Prince Henry of Wales
Henry IV: Part 2
As Henry Prince of Wales
Henry V
As King Henry V
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
As Earl of Suffolk
Henry VI: House of York
As Jack Cade
Richard III
As Duke of Buckingham
The Dolly Scene
As Tom
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
As Sherlock Holmes
The Iron Lady
As Michael Foot
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
As Narrator (Voice)
Florence Nightingale
As Wen
Outside Edge
As Bob
The Witches of Pendle
As Minister
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
As Oedipus Rex
Cymbeline
As Posthumus
1945: The Savage Peace
As Narrator (voice)
The Mayor of Montemilone
As Narrator
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
As John of Gaunt
Pyramid
As Narrator (voice)
Cracker: White Ghost
As Commander Gordon Ellison
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
As E1A
Lewis
As Dr. Melville
Silent Witness
As Dennis Morgan
Dalziel & Pascoe
Between the Lines
State of Play
Callan
Waking the Dead
As Prof Alan Macintosh
Trial & Retribution
No Hiding Place
BBC Television Shakespeare
BBC Play of the Month
As Alexei Turbin
Summer's Lease
As Hugh Pargeter
Father Brown
As Bishop Reynard
Empire Warriors
As Narrator
Raised by Wolves
As The Trust Voice (voice)
The Lost World of Communism
Endeavour
As Professor Donald Bagley
Freud
As Carl Jung
Cracker
As Cdr Gordon Ellison
Public Eye
As John Sheldon
Playing Shakespeare
The Escape Artist
As Judge