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

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
The Judge, Cambridge Theatre, between 1966 and 1974
A Woman of No Importance, Vaudeville Theatre, London, between 1966and 1974
Ballad of the False Barman, Hampstead Theatre, between 1966 and 1974
Pretty Boy, Royal Court Theatre, London, between 1966 and 1974
Captain Jack's Revenge, Royal Court Theatre, between 1966 and 1974
Savages, Royal Court Theatre, between 1966 and 1974
Trelawny of the Wells, Cambridge Theatre Company, between 1966 and1974
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
Diary of a Madman, Royal Shakespeare Company, between 1974 and 1981
The Hollow Crown, Royal Shakespeare Company, Fortune Theatre, London, 1981
Jack Beaty, Thirteenth Night, Royal Shakespeare Company, WarehouseTheatre, London, 1981
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
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
The Guardsman, Albery Theatre, London, 2000
Made stage debut as Fortinbras, Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Theatre;appeared as Andrei, Three Sisters, Cambridge Theatre Company.
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
Stage Director
Tours
Twelfth Night, English Shakespeare Company, international cities,1991-1992
Television Appearances
Miniseries
Himself, Playing Shakespeare, 1984
Hugh Pargeter, Summer's Lease, 1991
Narrator, Auntie: The Inside Story of the BBC, BBC, 1997
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
Series
Freud, 1984
Narrator, Tourists of the Revolution, BBC2, 2000
Episodic
Lafarge, "The Contract," Callan, 1972
Other
(Television debut) Alexei, The Single Passion, BBC, 1967
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,
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.
Film Appearances
Laertes, Hamlet, Columbia, 1969
Moff Jerjerrod, Return of the Jedi, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983
WRITINGS
Stage
(Compiler with Michael Bogdanov) God Say Amen (includes selectionsfrom history plays by William Shakespeare), English Shakespeare Company, Lyric Studio, 1990
Other Writings
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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