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Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington
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Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (7 June 1943 – 7 May 2026) was 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 wrote ten books, directed in the UK and across the world, and was an honorary associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Over a 60-year stage career he played a host of Shakespeare's title roles and other leading characters, while on screen he appeared as Laertes in Hamlet (1969), Moff Jerjerrod in Return of the Jedi (1983), and Michael Foot in The Iron Lady (2011).
Career
- 1943Born
- 2026Passed away
- Member of Royal Shakespeare Company
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Cambridge
- •Citizenship: United Kingdom
- •Known as: actor, writer, stage actor, film actor
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