Michael Pennington
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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5617 |
| Birthday | 1943-06-07 |
| Place of Birth | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington, |
1985
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
0/0
As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his lordship's pol...
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Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
2003
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
7.2/4
Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of Verus a gladiator...
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Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
1981
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
0/0
In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason
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A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
1994
Degas and Pissario Fall Out
8/1
A forgotten gem made for the British arts anthology series Without Walls, this half-hour drama imagines the two 19th century impressionist painters on...
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Degas and Pissario Fall Out
2021
Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
6/1
A biographical documentary film about the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, to commemorate Ray's centenary year. The film covers Ray's life an...
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Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
2005
Fragile
6.546/643
Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that...
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Fragile
1986
The Marlowe Inquest
1/2
In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what re...
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The Marlowe Inquest
1994
The Last Bolshevik
7.6/22
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's str...
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The Last Bolshevik
1983
Return of the Jedi
7.911/17283
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 m...
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Return of the Jedi
1969
Hamlet
5.8/15
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almo...
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Hamlet
2008
Airborne: The RAF at 90
0/0
The RAF sprang to life during the First World War. It took off into a dangerous adulthood during the Battle of Britain and the bombing of Germany, and...
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Airborne: The RAF at 90
2002
The Dinosaur Hunters
6.5/2
One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British scientific...
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The Dinosaur Hunters
1968
The Tycoon
0/0
When millionaire businessman Guy Taylor takes up with the beautiful Rachel Bell, two years married to a struggling sculptor, he starts to question wha...
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The Tycoon
1970
Mad Jack
9/1
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War
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Mad Jack
1977
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
0/0
A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth more dead than alive?
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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
1978
Danton's Death
9/1
Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when...
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Danton's Death
1991
Richard II
0/0
Shakespeare's Richard II recorded live at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historica...
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Richard II
1991
Henry IV: Part 1
0/0
Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 recorded live at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete His...
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Henry IV: Part 1
1991
Henry IV: Part 2
0/0
Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.
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Henry IV: Part 2
1991
Henry V
8/1
Shakespeare's Henry V, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.
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Henry V
1991
Henry VI: House of York
0/0
Second part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.
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Henry VI: House of York
1991
Henry VI: House of Lancaster
0/0
First part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.
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Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991
Richard III
0/0
Shakespeare's Richard III, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.
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Richard III
1970
The Dolly Scene
9/1
Anna can't seem to help ending up with the wrong partner in a line of disastrous affairs. Her hope now lies with a young man from the pop music scene.
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The Dolly Scene
1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
6/6
Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
2011
The Iron Lady
6.351/1926
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
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The Iron Lady
2014
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
7/1
The story of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and the discoveries they made.
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Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
2008
Florence Nightingale
6/4
Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale
1982
Outside Edge
8/2
The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so good...
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Outside Edge
1976
The Witches of Pendle
5.5/2
A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
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The Witches of Pendle
1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
4.5/2
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1983
Cymbeline
6.25/8
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who go...
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Cymbeline
2015
1945: The Savage Peace
7.625/12
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...
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1945: The Savage Peace
1984
The Mayor of Montemilone
5/1
Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town dyin...
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The Mayor of Montemilone
2013
RSC Live: Richard II
7.125/8
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...
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RSC Live: Richard II
2002
Pyramid
7.333/3
Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that even with our 21st-century technology, we could n...
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Pyramid
1996
Cracker: White Ghost
7/1
A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.
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Cracker: White Ghost
1978
Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
0/0
Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe. Will HIB's double negat...
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Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1984
Waving to a Train
0/0
By chance a businessman changing trains at a busy railway junction overhears the station announcement for a local train to a beauty spot which he last...
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