Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

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

История

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.

Профиль

Michael Pennington

Фильмы

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.
1945: The Savage Peace
Narrator (voice)
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans who had lived peacefully for centuries in Germany's neighboring countries, such as Czechoslovakia and Poland. A heartbreaking story of revenge against innocent civilians, the story of acts as cruel as the Nazi occupation during the war years.
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
Narrator (Voice)
Ричард II
John of Gaunt
О судьбе короля Англии Ричарда II и захвате власти его двоюродным братом Генрихом Болингброком, впоследствии ставшим королем Генрихом IV.
Железная леди
Michael Foot
Биографический фильм о жизни премьер-министра Великобритании Маргарет Тэтчер. С момента когда она заинтересовалась политикой и до сегодняшнего дня.
Florence Nightingale
Wen
Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale
Хрупкость
Marcus
Старинная детская больница «Мерси Фолз» закрывается. Но больничные стены хранят свои секреты. Нечто страшное, полное боли и ненависти, пробуждается к жизни. Дети нервничают и очень напуганы чем-то неосязаемым, невообразимым… Они называют это «механической девочкой» и уверяют, что она живет наверху, на 3 м этаже. На том самом, который был заперт и отделен от остальной части больницы вот уже 40 лет назад. С каждым часом ее присутствие становится все более очевидным. Страх и ужас поселился в тени больничных коридоров.
Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death
Narrator (UK version) (voice)
Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death aka Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama which tells the true story of Verus a gladiator who fought at the Colosseum in Rome.
Pyramid
Narrator (voice)
Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramid is the only one to survive. Many believe that even with our 21st-century technology, we could not build anything like it today. Based on the most up-to-date research and the latest archaeological discoveries, here is how the Pyramid came to be.
The Last Bolshevik
Voice
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's struggles over the course of the 20th Century.
Возвращение Шерлока Холмса
Sherlock Holmes
Фильм рассказывает о великом сыщике, Шерлоке Холмсе, который из-за бубонной чумы был подвергнут заморозке. На дворе конец 20 века. Получив в наследство дом, из Америки в Англию приезжает Джейн Уотсон — внучка известного доктора Уотсона, который был верным другом сыщика. Наткнувшись на тело Холмса, Джейн помогает ему придти в себя и увозит в Бостон, где ее ждет практика частного детектива. Привыкая к новому времени, Холмса присоединяется к расследованиям и помогает внучке своего друга распутывать сложные головоломки.
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.
Звёздные войны: Эпизод 6 - Возвращение Джедая
Moff Jerjerrod
В заключительном шестом эпизоде «Звездных войн» Дарт Вейдер создает вторую «Звезду Смерти». Он объединяет все силы зла, чтобы с помощью этого смертоносного оружия нанести последний сокрушительный удар по повстанцам и их союзникам. Люк Скайуокер вместе с принцессой Лейей и верными дроидами R2D2 и C-3PO отправляется спасать своего друга Хана Соло, который попал в плен к отвратительному Джаббе Хатту — могущественному повелителю преступников.
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
Гамлет
Laertes
В Датском королевстве неспокойно. По замку бродит призрак, называет себя духом убиенного отца принца Гамлета, а убийцей выставляет брата Клавдия, который после смерти короля завладел троном и его женой Гертрудой. Рискующий и сомневающийся Гамлет вероломному дяде готовит мышеловку… Среди 56-ти экранизаций великой трагедии Шекспира эта (32-ая) считается одной из лучших. Это была одна из первых экранизаций, где возраст персонажа совпадал с возрастом актёра, его играющего. Из-за мизерного бюджета фильма всё действие происходит на тёмном фоне, но это не мешает этой экранизации быть очень популярной.