Michael Pennington
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.
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the...
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A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a...
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Fragile
as MarcusHaunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for...
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Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
as Narrator (UK version) (voice)Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television...
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Hamlet
as LaertesTony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the...
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Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
as John of GauntA monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man...
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1945: The Savage Peace
as Narrator (voice)How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were...
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The Witches of Pendle
as MinisterA BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
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The Last Bolshevik
as VoiceA documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the...
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Degas and Pissario Fall Out
as DegasA forgotten gem made for the British arts anthology series Without Walls, this half-hour drama...
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Cymbeline
as PosthumusCymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy)...
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically...
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Cracker: White Ghost
as Commander Gordon EllisonA British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder...
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Florence Nightingale
as WenReflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale
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The Dinosaur Hunters
as William BucklandOne man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the...
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
as Oedipus RexPlagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King,...
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Mad Jack
as uncreditedPlay dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests...
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Henry IV: Part 2
as Henry Prince of WalesShakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the...
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Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
as Narrator (Voice)The story of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and the discoveries they made.
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Danton's Death
as Saint-JustDanton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written....
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Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
as Narrator (voice)A biographical documentary film about the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, to...
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Henry VI: House of York
as Jack CadeSecond part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as...
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Pyramid
as Narrator (voice)Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe...
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The Marlowe Inquest
as Thomas KydIn an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant...
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Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
as uncreditedAs in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality...
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Richard II
as Richard IIShakespeare's Richard II recorded live at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, performed by the English...
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Henry IV: Part 1
as Prince Henry of WalesShakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 recorded live at the Grand Theatre in Swansea, performed by the...
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Henry V
as King Henry VShakespeare's Henry V, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete...
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A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
as John LilburneIn prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged,...
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Henry VI: House of Lancaster
as Earl of SuffolkFirst part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as...
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Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat
as E1ABehind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise...
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Richard III
as Duke of BuckinghamShakespeare's Richard III, performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete...
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Endeavour
as Professor Donald BagleyThe early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the...
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Father Brown
as Bishop ReynardFather Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who...
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Silent Witness
as Dennis MorganSilent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology...
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Waking the Dead
as Prof Alan MacintoshA detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Raised by Wolves
as The Trust Voice (voice)After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his...
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Lewis
as Dr. MelvilleInspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned...
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BBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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Trial & Retribution
as uncreditedTrial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began...
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No Hiding Place
as uncreditedNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...
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Cracker
as Cdr Gordon EllisonThe wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight...
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Public Eye
as John SheldonPublic Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC...
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Dalziel & Pascoe
as uncreditedBritish crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in...
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Between the Lines
as uncreditedDetective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation...
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BBC Play of the Month
as Alexei TurbinPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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State of Play
as uncreditedThe murder of Sonia Baker, a young political researcher, leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to...
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The Escape Artist
as JudgeA chilling and bloody legal thriller that explores the line between law and justice. Will...
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Callan
as uncreditedCallan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage....
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Playing Shakespeare
as uncreditedJohn Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing...
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Summer's Lease
as Hugh PargeterMolly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull...
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Freud
as Carl JungThe life and times of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
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The Lost World of Communism
as uncreditedThe Lost World of Communism is a three-part British documentary series which examines the legacy...
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Empire Warriors
as NarratorFour-part documentary series about four 'wars on terror' during the final phase of the British...
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