Michael Pennington
Birthday: 1943-06-07
Place of Birth: 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.
Movies
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal in...
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Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudra...
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A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, draw...
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Degas and Pissario Fall Out
A forgotten gem made for the British arts anthology series Without Walls, this half-hour drama imagi...
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Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
A biographical documentary film about the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, to commemorate Ra...
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Fragile
Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for childre...
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The Marlowe Inquest
In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures...
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The Last Bolshevik
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscov...
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Return of the Jedi
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, wh...
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Hamlet
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse...
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Airborne: The RAF at 90
The RAF sprang to life during the First World War. It took off into a dangerous adulthood during the...
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The Dinosaur Hunters
One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 1...
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The Tycoon
When millionaire businessman Guy Taylor takes up with the beautiful Rachel Bell, two years married t...
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Mad Jack
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against th...
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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth mor...
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Danton's Death
Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg...
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Richard II
Shakespeare's Richard II recorded live at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, performed by the English Sha...
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Henry IV: Part 1
Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 recorded live at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, performed by the Engli...
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Henry IV: Part 2
Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete ...
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Henry V
Shakespeare's Henry V, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historic...
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Henry VI: House of York
Second part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as par...
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Henry VI: House of Lancaster
First part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part...
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Richard III
Shakespeare's Richard III, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Hist...
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The Dolly Scene
Anna can't seem to help ending up with the wrong partner in a line of disastrous affairs. Her hope n...
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically froz...
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The Iron Lady
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a foc...
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Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
The story of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and the discoveries they made....
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Florence Nightingale
Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale...
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Outside Edge
The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of ...
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The Witches of Pendle
A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616....
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that th...
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Cymbeline
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man...
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1945: The Savage Peace
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atroc...
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The Mayor of Montemilone
Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communi...
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RSC Live: Richard II
A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man who...
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Pyramid
Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that...
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Cracker: White Ghost
A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he...
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Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at ...
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