Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

June 7, 1943 · 83 years old

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…

Known For

7 titles
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

1983 · 2h 11m · Movie

After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempts to destroy the second Death Star while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.

8.3
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The Iron Lady

The Iron Lady

2011 · 1h 45m · Movie

An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.

6.4
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Fragile

Fragile

2005 · 1h 41m · Movie

At her new job in a rundown children's hospital, a nurse desperately tries to keep her patients safe from a plague of random, mysterious attacks.

6.0
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Hamlet

Hamlet

1969 · 1h 57m · Movie

Academy Award-winning director Tony Richardson brings Shakespeare's tragedy to the screen - with searing performances from Nicol Williamson as the melancholy Dane and future Academy Award-winner Anthony Hopkins as the deceitful Cl...

7.0
5
Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II

Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II

2013 · 3h 0m · Movie

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 England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.

8.3
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The Savage Peace

The Savage Peace

2015 · 1h 0m · Movie

When the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny. Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter.

7.6
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Building the Great Pyramid

Building the Great Pyramid

2002 · 58m · Movie

Based on the latest archaeological discoveries and combining dramatic reconstruction, location shooting and state-of-the-art CGI computer effects, this film travels back in time to reveal how the mighty structure of the Great Pyra...

7.2