Michael Pennington
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- This article is about the actor Michael Pennington. For the comedian, see Johnny Vegas.
Michael Pennington (born June 7, 1943 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK) is a British director and actor best known for his role as the villainous Moff Jerjerrod in the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Born Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington in Cambridge, England. Most of his career has been on stage in works such as Hamlet (RSC), Oedipus the King, The Entertainer, and Gross Indecency: The Three Trial of Oscar Wilde. He has directed plays including Twelfth Night at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in the United States. A notable TV appearance was on the television movie The Return of Sherlock Holmes in the late 1987. He appeared in the 2005 film Fragile, co-starring Calista Flockhart.
[edit] Filmography
- Fragile (2005)
- Dalziel and Pascoe: Ruling Passion (1997) (TV)
- Summer's Lease (1989) TV
- The Wars of the Roses (1989) TV
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987) (TV)
- Freud (1984) TV
- Oedipus the King (1984) (TV)
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Cymbeline (1982) (TV)
- Outside Edge (1982) (TV)
- Mr. & Ms. Bureaucrat (1978) (TV)
- The Witches of Pendle (1977) (TV)
- An Affair of Honour (1972) (TV)
- The Unconquered (1970) (TV)
- The Dolly Scene (1970) (TV)
- Hamlet (1969)
- Anyone for Tennis? (1968) (TV)
- The Order (1967) (TV)