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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Michael Pennington Biography (1943-)
Full name, Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington; born June 7, 1943, in Cambridge, England; son of Vivian Maynard Cecil and Euphemia Willock (maiden name, Fyfe)Pennington; married Katharine Ann Letitia Barker, October 10, 1964 (divorced,1967); children: Mark Dominic Fyfe. Addresses: Agent: London Management Ltd., 2-4 Noel St., London W1V 3RB, England.
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Actor, writer
- Birth Details
- June 7, 1943
- Cambridge, England
Famous Works
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CREDITS
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Stage Appearances
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The Judge, Cambridge Theatre, between 1966 and 1974
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A Woman of No Importance, Vaudeville Theatre, London, between 1966and 1974
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Ballad of the False Barman, Hampstead Theatre, between 1966 and 1974
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Pretty Boy, Royal Court Theatre, London, between 1966 and 1974
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Captain Jack's Revenge, Royal Court Theatre, between 1966 and 1974
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Savages, Royal Court Theatre, between 1966 and 1974
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Trelawny of the Wells, Cambridge Theatre Company, between 1966 and1974
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The Promise, Crucible Theatre, between 1966 and 1974
- (London debut) Trapp, The Judge, Cambridge Theatre, 1967
- (New York debut) Laertes, Hamlet, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1969
- Angelo, Measure for Measure, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and 1981
- Ferdinand, The Tempest, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and 1981
- Johnnie Hobnails, Afore Night Come, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and 1981
- Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and 1981
- Edgar, King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and 1981
- Hector, Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and 1981
- Major Rolfe, Destiny, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and1981
- Mirabell, The Way of the World, Royal Shakespeare Company, between1974 and 1981
- Berowne, Love's Labour's Lost, Royal Shakespeare Company, between1974 and 1981
- Title role, Hippolytus, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and 1981
- Duke, Measure for Measure, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974and 1981
- Shervinsky, The White Guard, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and 1981
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Diary of a Madman, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and 1981
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The Hollow Crown, Royal Shakespeare Company, Fortune Theatre, London, 1981
- Jack Beaty, Thirteenth Night, Royal Shakespeare Company, WarehouseTheatre, London, 1981
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Pleasure and Repentance, Royal Shakespeare Company, Fortune Theatre, 1981
- Donal Davoren, The Shadow of a Gunman, Royal Shakespeare Company,Warehouse Theatre, 1981
- Title role, Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1981
- Rodion Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, England, 1983
- Title role, Strider: The Story of a Horse, National Theatre Company, Cottesloe Theatre, London, 1984
- Jaffier, Venice Preserv'd; or, A Plot Discovered, National TheatreCompany, Lyttelton Theatre, London, 1984
- Title role, Anton Chekhov, Cottesloe Theatre, 1984
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The Real Thing, Strand Theatre, London, 1985
- Bill, Playing with Trains, Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit Theatre,1989
- Edward Davison, The Gift of the Gorgon, Wyndham's Theatre, London,1993
- Title role, Timon of Athens, Barbican Theatre, London, 2000
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The Guardsman, Albery Theatre, London, 2000
- Made stage debut as Fortinbras, Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Theatre;appeared as Andrei, Three Sisters, Cambridge Theatre Company.
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Major Tours
- Title role, Richard II, English Shakespeare Company, internationalcities, 1987-1989
- Prince Hal, Henry IV, Part I, English Shakespeare Company, international cities, 1987-1989
- Prince Hal, Henry IV, Part II, English Shakespeare Company, international cities, 1987-1989
- Title role, Henry V, English Shakespeare Company, international cities, 1987-1989
- Earl of Suffolk, Henry VI: House of Lancaster, English ShakespeareCompany, international cities, 1987-1989
- Jack Cade, Henry VI: House of York, English Shakespeare Company, international cities, 1987-1989
- Duke of Buckingham, Richard III, English Shakespeare Company, international cities, 1987-1989
- Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Coriolanus, English Shakespeare Company,international cities, 1990-1991
- Leontes, The Winter's Tale, English Shakespeare Company, international cities, 1990-1991
- Title role, Macbeth, English Shakespeare Company, international cities, 1992
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Stage Director
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Tours
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Twelfth Night, English Shakespeare Company, international cities,1991-1992
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Television Appearances
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Miniseries
- Himself, Playing Shakespeare, 1984
- Hugh Pargeter, Summer's Lease, 1991
- Narrator, Auntie: The Inside Story of the BBC, BBC, 1997
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Movies
- Title role, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, CBS, 1987
- Gordon Ellison, Cracker: White Ghost, Arts and Entertainment, 1996
- Hartley Culpepper, Dalziel and Pascoe: Ruling Passion, Arts and Entertainment, 1997
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Series
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Freud, 1984
- Narrator, Tourists of the Revolution, BBC2, 2000
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Episodic
- Lafarge, "The Contract," Callan, 1972
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Other
- (Television debut) Alexei, The Single Passion, BBC, 1967
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An Affair of Honour (also known as Thirty-Minute Theatre: An Affair of Honour), 1972
- Bob, Outside Edge, 1982
- Posthumus, Cymbeline (also known as BBC Television Shakespeare:Cymbeline), BBC, 1983
- Oedipus, "Oedipus the King," The Theban Plays (special), PBS, 1988
- Voice, Le tombeau d'Alexandre (also known as The Last Bolshevik), 1992
- Appeared in Middlemarch, BBC; Anyone for Tennis,
No EasyWalk,
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The Tycoon, and Mad Jack, all between 1966 and 1974 appeared as Saint Justin, Danton's Death, as D. H. Lawrence, A Portrait ofD. H. Lawrence, and appeared in Mr. and Mrs. Bureaucrat, all between 1974 and 1981 appeared in approximately fifty other television productions for BBC, CBS, and independent companies.
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Film Appearances
- Laertes, Hamlet, Columbia, 1969
- Moff Jerjerrod, Return of the Jedi, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983
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WRITINGS
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Stage
- (Compiler with Michael Bogdanov) God Say Amen (includes selectionsfrom history plays by William Shakespeare), English Shakespeare Company, Lyric Studio, 1990
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Other Writings
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Rossya: A Journey through Siberia, Red Man, 1977
- (With Bogdanov) The English Shakespeare Company: The Story of the Warsof the Roses, 1986-1989, Nick Hern Books, 1990
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