
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.

Return of the Jedi
1983 · as Moff Jerjerrod

The Iron Lady
2011 · as Michael Foot

Fragile
2005 · as Marcus

Pyramid
2002 · as Narrator (voice)

Cracker: White Ghost
1996 · as Commander Gordon Ellison

1945: The Savage Peace
2015 · as Narrator (voice)

RSC Live: Richard II
2013 · as John of Gaunt

The Tycoon
1968 · as Peter Bell

Danton's Death
1978 · as Saint-Just

Richard III
1991 · as Duke of Buckingham

Henry V
1991 · as King Henry V

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1986 · as Oedipus Rex

Hamlet
1969 · as Laertes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987 · as Sherlock Holmes

Henry VI: House of York
1991 · as Jack Cade

Outside Edge
1982 · as Bob

Henry VI: House of Lancaster
1991 · as Earl of Suffolk

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
1978 · as E1A