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Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington is an English actor, director and writer. Together with director Michael Bogdanov, he founded the English Shakespeare Company in 1986 and was its Joint Artistic Director until 1992. He has written ten books, directed in the UK, US, Romania and Japan, and is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Birth Name
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington
Born
Monday, 07 June 1943
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Icons Unearthed | Narrator / Self - Narrator | 2022 |
| Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2021 |
| Raised by Wolves | The Trust | 2020 |
| The Savage Peace | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2015 |
| Secrets of the Universe Great Scientists in Their Own Words | Self - Narrator | 2014 |
| Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II | John of Gaunt | 2013 |
| The Escape Artist | Judge | 2013 |
| Father Brown | Bishop Reynard | 2013 |
| Endeavour | Professor Donald Bagley | 2012 |
| The Iron Lady | Michael Foot - Leader of the Opposition / Michael Foot | 2011 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Icons Unearthed | Narrator / Self - Narrator | 2022 |
| Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2021 |
| Raised by Wolves | The Trust | 2020 |
| The Savage Peace | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2015 |
| Secrets of the Universe Great Scientists in Their Own Words | Self - Narrator | 2014 |
| Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II | John of Gaunt | 2013 |
| The Escape Artist | Judge | 2013 |
| Father Brown | Bishop Reynard | 2013 |
| Endeavour | Professor Donald Bagley | 2012 |
| The Iron Lady | Michael Foot - Leader of the Opposition / Michael Foot | 2011 |
| Into the Storm | Arthur 'Bomber' Harris | 2009 |
| Kate Garraway's Life Stories | Self - Actor and Friend | 2009 |
| Florence Nightingale | Wen | 2008 |
| Battle of Wills | Self | 2008 |
| The Tudors | Abbot | 2007 |
| Inspector Lewis | Dr. Melville | 2006 |
| Fragile | Marcus | 2005 |
| Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death | Narrator (UK version) (voice) / Narrator | 2003 |
| State of Play | Richard Siegler | 2003 |
| Building the Great Pyramid | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 2002 |
| Timeshift | Self - Narrator | 2002 |
| Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible | Priest | 2001 |
| Waking the Dead | Prof. Alan Macintosh / Prof Alan Macintosh | 2000 |
| Holby City | David Powell / Walter Noble | 1999 |
| Trial & Retribution | James Clayton Q.C. | 1997 |
| Dalziel and Pascoe | Hartley Culpepper | 1996 |
| Silent Witness | Dennis Morgan / Prof. Pavel Vetchy | 1996 |
| Kavanagh QC | Ralph Merridew | 1995 |
| Cracker | Commander Gordon Ellison | 1993 |
| The Last Bolshevik | Voice | 1993 |
| Between the Lines | Thomas Wenleigh | 1992 |
| Summer's Lease | Hugh Pargeter | 1989 |
| Biography | Self | 1987 |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | 1987 |
| The Theban Plays by Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | 1986 |
| Oscar | Narrator | 1985 |
| Freud | Carl Jung | 1984 |
| The Brief | Judge Howard Sinclair | 1984 |
| Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | Moff Jerjerrod | 1983 |
| Cymbeline | Posthumus | 1982 |
| Playing Shakespeare | Self | 1982 |
| The South Bank Show | Self | 1978 |
| Arena | Narrator | 1975 |
| BBC2 Playhouse | John Lilburne | 1974 |
| Hamlet | Laertes | 1969 |
| Sat'day While Sunday | Adrian | 1967 |
| ITV Playhouse | Don Harris / Lancelot Wishart / Peter Bell | 1967 |
| Escape | Byron | 1967 |
| Callan | Lafarge | 1967 |
| BBC Play of the Month | Alexei Turbin / Saint-Just | 1965 |
| Thirty-Minute Theatre | Martin | 1965 |
| The Wars of the Roses | 1965 | |
| Public Eye | John Sheldon | 1965 |
| The Wednesday Play | Youth / Geoffrey Cromlech / Garry | 1964 |
| Theatre 625 | Alexander / Wulfnoth | 1964 |
| Drama 61-67 | First youth | 1961 |
| No Hiding Place | Gerry Waltham | 1959 |
| Armchair Theatre | Tom / Adrian | 1956 |
