Michael Pennington
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 7 June 1943 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Died
- 10 May 2026
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.
Known for
Acting 39
- 2021Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali as Narrator (voice)
- 20151945: The Savage Peace as Narrator (voice)
- 2014Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words as Narrator (Voice)
- 2013RSC Live: Richard II as John of Gaunt
- 2011The Iron Lady as Michael Foot
- 2008Airborne: The RAF at 90 as Narrator - (Voice)
- 2008Florence Nightingale as Wen
- 2005Fragile as Marcus
- 2003Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death as Narrator (UK version) (voice)
- 2002The Dinosaur Hunters as William Buckland
- 2002Pyramid as Narrator (voice)
- 1996Cracker: White Ghost as Commander Gordon Ellison
- 1994The Last Bolshevik as Self (voice: English version)
- 1994Degas and Pissario Fall Out as Degas
- 1991Henry VI: House of York as Jack Cade
- 1991Richard III as Duke of Buckingham
- 1991Henry VI: House of Lancaster as Earl of Suffolk
- 1991Richard II as Richard II
- 1991Henry IV: Part 1 as Prince Henry of Wales
- 1991Henry IV: Part 2 as Henry Prince of Wales
- 1991Henry V as King Henry V
- 1987The Return of Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes
- 1986Theban Plays: Oedipus the King as Oedipus Rex
- 1986The Marlowe Inquest as Thomas Kyd
- 1985Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
- 1984The Mayor of Montemilone as Narrator
- 1984Waving to a Train as Richard
- 1983Cymbeline as Posthumus
- 1983Return of the Jedi as Moff Jerjerrod
- 1982Outside Edge as Bob
- 1981A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter as John Lilburne
- 1978Danton's Death as Saint-Just
- 1978Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat as E1A
- 1977It's Only Rock 'n' Roll as Don Harris
- 1976The Witches of Pendle as Minister
- 1970The Dolly Scene as Tom
- 1970Mad Jack
- 1969Hamlet as Laertes
- 1968The Tycoon as Peter Bell