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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.

Dans les secrets des films Star Wars
as Narrator ( Voice)

Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
as Narrator (voice)

Raised by Wolves
as The Trust Voice (voice)

1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice)

Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
as Narrator (Voice)

RSC Live: Richard II
as John of Gaunt

The Escape Artist
as Judge

Endeavour
as Professor Donald Bagley

Father Brown
as Bishop Reynard

The Iron Lady
as Michael Foot

The Lost World of Communism
Airborne: The RAF at 90
as Narrator - (Voice)

Florence Nightingale
as Wen

Lewis
as Dr. Melville

Fragile
as Marcus

Empire Warriors
as Narrator

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)

State of Play
as Richard Siegler

The Dinosaur Hunters
as William Buckland

Pyramid
as Narrator (voice)

Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
as Priest

Waking the Dead
as Prof Alan Macintosh

Cracker: White Ghost
as Commander Gordon Ellison

Dalziel and Pascoe
as Hartley Culpepper

Silent Witness
as Dennis Morgan

The Last Bolshevik
as Self (voice: English version)

Degas and Pissario Fall Out
as Degas

Between the Lines

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 York
as Jack Cade

Henry VI: House of Lancaster
as Earl of Suffolk

Richard III
as Duke of Buckingham

Summer's Lease
as Hugh Pargeter

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock Holmes

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Oedipus Rex

The Marlowe Inquest
as Thomas Kyd

ScreenPlay
as Thomas Kyd

Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie

The Mayor of Montemilone
as Narrator

Italians
as Narrator

Freud
as Carl Jung

Playing Shakespeare
Waving to a Train
as Richard

Cymbeline
as Posthumus

Return of the Jedi
as Moff Jerjerrod

Outside Edge
as Bob

A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
as John Lilburne

Danton's Death
as Saint-Just

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
as E1A

BBC2 Play of the Week
as E1A
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
as Don Harris

The Witches of Pendle
as Minister

Playhouse
as John Lilburne
No Exit
as Ian Strawson
The Dolly Scene
as Tom

Mad Jack

Hamlet
as Laertes