Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

Nacimiento : 1943-06-07, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Historia

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.

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Michael Pennington

Películas

Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali
Narrator (voice)
A biographical documentary film about the legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray, to commemorate Ray's centenary year. The film covers Ray's life and early works, focusing on the making of his first film Pather Panchali.
La paz salvaje
Narrator (voice)
En 1945, después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la caída del régimen nazi, los derrotados, fueron maltratados atrozmente, especialmente aquellos alemanes étnicos que habían vivido pacíficamente durante siglos en los países vecinos de Alemania, como Checoslovaquia y Polonia. Una desgarradora historia de venganza contra civiles inocentes, la historia de actos tan crueles como la ocupación nazi durante los años de guerra.
Secretos del universo
Narrator (Voice)
La asombrosa revolución en la física durante el siglo XX fue posible gracias a la singular personalidad de los científicos que la protagonizaron. Desde descubrir los secretos del átomo hasta resolver los misterios del cosmos.
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
John of Gaunt
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.
La dama de hierro
Michael Foot
La Dama de Hierro cuenta la apasionante historia de Margaret Thatcher, una mujer que rompió todas las barreras de género y clase para ser escuchada en un mundo dominado por hombres. La historia trata sobre el poder y el precio que se paga por él, en un retrato sorprendente e íntimo de una mujer extraordinaria y compleja.
Florence Nightingale
Wen
Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale
Frágiles
Marcus
Isla de Wight (Gran Bretaña). Tras un siglo de funcionamiento, el hospital infantil de Mercy Falls está a punto de cerrar sus puertas. Amy, una enfermera americana, contratada para cubrir el turno de noche mientras se lleva a cabo la evacuación de los niños a otros centros, detecta algo extraño: los niños están muy asustados y hablan de algo invisible y aterrador: la niña mecánica, y aseguran que vive en una planta del edificio que fue clausurada hace más de cuarenta años. Poco a poco, esa criatura se irá haciendo más evidente y agresiva. Para descubrir la verdad y proteger a los niños, Amy tendrá que enfrentarse a los que no la creen y a los miedos de su propio pasado.
Coliseo: Ruedo Mortal de Roma
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death, también conocido como Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story es un docudrama de BBC Television y France 2 de 2003 que cuenta la historia real de Verus, un gladiador que luchó en el Coliseo de Roma.
Pirámide
Narrator (voice)
Basado en las más actualizadas investigaciones y descubrimientos arqueológicos, este extraordinario documental nos muestra la representación de un pasado antiguo en un nivel completamente nuevo.
El último bolchevique
Voice
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin fue un cineasta ruso nacido en 1900. A los 17 años, fue testigo de la Revolución bolchevique; a los 20 participó en la Guerra Civil, dentro del Ejército Rojo junto a Isaac Babel; a los 38 vivió las purgas estalinistas, y vio cómo su mejor película, "La felicidad", era condenada por reflejar influencias de Bujarin; con 41 años, luchó en primera línea en la II Guerra Mundial, cámara en mano; y murió, en 1989, en plena "perestroika", convencido de que el comunismo, al que él había consagrado su vida, alcanzaba, por fin, su culminación.
El regreso de Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Tras ochenta años congelado, Sherlock Holmes es devuelto a la vida.
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Oedipus Rex
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.
The Marlowe Inquest
Thomas Kyd
In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what really happened to the playwright and poet, Christopher Marlowe.
Forbidden Passion: The Oscar Wilde Movie
As in earlier Oscar Wilde biopics, this version preoccupies itself with the homosexuality scandal involving Lord Alfred Douglas and his lordship's political powerful father, the Marquis of Queensbury. Arrested for corrupting Lord Douglas' morals, Wilde spends a debilitating five years in Reading Gaol, emerging a shattered shell of his former self
The Mayor of Montemilone
Narrator
Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town dying on its feet. There are no jobs, the young emigrate, the old have given up hope and government aid often goes astray. While Dino is determined to fight for his town, his wife Angela sometimes feels that the struggle is not worth it. A massive dam is being built just outside Montemilone. It's a new threat to the town and to Dino's position as mayor.
El retorno del Jedi
Moff Jerjerrod
Luke Skywalker y la princesa Leia deben viajar a Tatooine para liberar a Han Solo. Para conseguirlo, deben infiltrarse en la peligrosa guarida de Jabba the Hutt, el gángster más temido de la galaxia. Una vez reunidos, el equipo recluta a tribus de Ewoks para combatir a las fuerzas imperiales en los bosques de la luna de Endor. Mientras tanto, el Emperador y Darth Vader conspiran para convertir a Luke al lado oscuro, pero el joven Skywalker, por su parte, está decidido a reavivar el espíritu del Jedi en su padre. La guerra civil galáctica culmina en un último enfrentamiento entre las fuerzas rebeldes unificadas y una segunda Estrella de la Muerte, indefensa e incompleta, en una batalla que decidirá el destino de la galaxia.
Cymbeline
Posthumus
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
Outside Edge
Bob
The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so good secrets that come to light during the course of the day. Roger is the ultimate captain rallying his troops whilst ignoring his greatest strength, Miriam, who makes the 'fantastic' teas with or without the 'non-compulsory' help. The days builds to a climax where it seems that everything must change forever. But will it?
A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter
John Lilburne
In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason
Danton's Death
Saint-Just
Danton 's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Biichner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, the leaders of the extremists, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on ' the wild horses of the Revolution.'
The Witches of Pendle
Minister
A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
Mad Jack
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War
Hamlet
Laertes
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.