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Michael Pennington(I)

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  • Director
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David Prowse and Michael Pennington in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Summer's Lease: The Urbino Trail
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The Urbino Trail (1989)
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Michael Pennington was born on 7 June 1943 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), The Iron Lady (2011) and Hamlet (1969). He was previously married to Katharine Barker.
BornJune 7, 1943
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John Barton and Michael Pennington in Playing Shakespeare (1982)
Marianne Faithfull, Michael Pennington, and Nicol Williamson in Hamlet (1969)

Known for

Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, Warwick Davis, David Prowse, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Carter, and Larry Ward in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
8.3
  • Moff Jerjerrod
  • 1983
Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady (2011)
The Iron Lady
6.4
  • Michael Foot - Leader of the Opposition
  • 2011
Marianne Faithfull, Michael Pennington, and Nicol Williamson in Hamlet (1969)
Hamlet
7.0
  • Laertes
  • 1969
The Theban Plays by Sophocles (1986)
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
7.4
TV Series
  • Oedipus Rex

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Actor

  • Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim, and Winta McGrath in Raised by Wolves (2020)
    Raised by Wolves
    • The Trust (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Footprints (2021)
    Footprints
    • Anton Chekhov
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Old Vic: In Camera - Fanny & Alexander
    • TV Movie
    • 2018
  • Endeavour (2012)
    Endeavour
    • Professor Donald Bagley
    • TV Series
    • 2017
  • Father Brown (2013)
    Father Brown
    • Bishop Reynard
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II (2013)
    Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II
    • John of Gaunt
    • TV Movie
    • 2013
  • David Tennant in The Escape Artist (2013)
    The Escape Artist
    • Judge
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2013
  • Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady (2011)
    The Iron Lady
    • Michael Foot - Leader of the Opposition
    • 2011
  • Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, Warwick Davis, David Prowse, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Carter, and Larry Ward in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
    Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi: Deleted Scenes
    • Moff Jerjerrod
    • Video
    • 2011
  • Amanda Burton, Emilia Fox, Sam Barnard, David Caves, and Genesis Lynea in Silent Witness (1996)
    Silent Witness
    • Prof. Pavel Vetchy
    • Dennis Morgan
    • TV Series
    • 2002–2010
  • Britain Isn't Working
    • Mayor Bunion
    • Short
    • 2009
  • Brendan Gleeson in Into the Storm (2009)
    Into the Storm
    • Arthur 'Bomber' Harris
    • TV Movie
    • 2009
  • Guy Henry in Holby City (1999)
    Holby City
    • Walter Noble
    • David Powell
    • TV Series
    • 2006–2008
  • Florence Nightingale (2008)
    Florence Nightingale
    • Wen
    • TV Movie
    • 2008
  • Joely Richardson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Joss Stone, Tamzin Merchant, Natalie Dormer, and Annabelle Wallis in The Tudors (2007)
    The Tudors
    • Abbot
    • TV Series
    • 2008

Director

  • Footprints (2021)
    Footprints
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Sweet William: My Life with Shakespeare
    • Director
    • 2013

Additional Crew

  • Arena (1975)
    Arena
    • narrator
    • TV Series
    • 1995

Videos7

Summer's Lease: Where The Water Goes
Trailer 1:41
Summer's Lease: Where The Water Goes
Summer's Lease
Trailer 2:00
Summer's Lease
Summer's Lease: Villa To Let
Trailer 2:00
Summer's Lease: Villa To Let
Summer's Lease: Vol. 2
Trailer 0:47
Summer's Lease: Vol. 2
Summer's Lease: A Battlefield
Trailer 1:46
Summer's Lease: A Battlefield
Summer's Lease: Vol. 1
Trailer 0:42
Summer's Lease: Vol. 1
Summer's Lease: The Urbino Trail
Trailer 2:00
Summer's Lease: The Urbino Trail

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 6′ 0¾″ (1.85 m)
  • Born
    • June 7, 1943
    • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
  • Spouse
    • Katharine BarkerOctober 10, 1964 - December 1967 (divorced, 1 child)
  • Other works
    He acted in Yuriy Lyubimov and Yuri Karyakin's stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London, England with Paola Dionisotti, Nicholas Farrell, Peter Kelly, Bill Paterson, Sheila Reid, Mia Soteriou and Gary Waldhorn in the cast. Yuriy Lyubimov was also the director.

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    He and Michael Bogdanov was awarded the 1987 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for the Special Award for "The Henry Trilogy".

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