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Acting

Michael Pennington

Career: Active from 1970 to 2021, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 17
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: RSC Live: Richard II
77/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 23 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Michael Pennington Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Coming of Age
1.7, average 3.0
Physical Comedy
1.3, average 2.4
Absurdist Humor
1.1, average 2.0
Adrenaline
4.0, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Documentary 2
Political Intrigue 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

70

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles · average score 75

Manik da: The Mystique of Pather Panchali

as Narrator (voice)

Raised by Wolves

75

TV show · as The Trust (voice)

2010s

7 titles · average score 74

1945: The Savage Peace

76

as Narrator (voice)

Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words

as Narrator (Voice)

RSC Live: Richard II

77

as John of Gaunt

Father Brown

77

TV show · as Bishop Reynard

Endeavour

85

TV show · as Professor Donald Bagley

The Escape Artist

73

TV show · as Judge

The Iron Lady

55

as Michael Foot

2000s

12 titles · average score 69

The Lost World of Communism

TV show

Florence Nightingale

as Wen

Airborne: The RAF at 90

as Narrator - (Voice)

Lewis

80

TV show · as Dr. Melville

Fragile

57

as Marcus

Empire Warriors

TV show · as Narrator

State of Play

86

TV show · as Richard Siegler

Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death

as Narrator (voice)

Pyramid

72

as Narrator (voice)

The Dinosaur Hunters

as William Buckland

Waking the Dead

50

TV show · as Prof Alan Macintosh

Dr Terrible's House of Horrible

71

TV show · as Priest

1990s

13 titles · average score 70

Cracker: White Ghost

70

as Commander Gordon Ellison

Silent Witness

75

TV show · as Dennis Morgan

Dalziel and Pascoe

69

TV show · as Hartley Culpepper

Degas and Pissario Fall Out

as Degas

Between the Lines

68

TV show

Henry V

as King Henry V

Richard III

as Duke of Buckingham

Henry VI: House of Lancaster

as Earl of Suffolk

Henry VI: House of York

as Jack Cade

Henry IV: Part 1

as Prince Henry of Wales

Richard II

as Richard II

Henry IV: Part 2

as Henry Prince of Wales

1980s

14 titles · average score 74

Summer's Lease

73

TV show · as Hugh Pargeter

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

60

as Sherlock Holmes

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

as Oedipus Rex

The Marlowe Inquest

as Thomas Kyd

ScreenPlay

TV show · as Thomas Kyd

The Mayor of Montemilone

as Narrator

Playing Shakespeare

96

TV show

Freud

TV show · as Carl Jung

Return of the Jedi

77

as Moff Jerjerrod

Cymbeline

66

as Posthumus

Outside Edge

as Bob

A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter

as John Lilburne

1970s

8 titles

Danton's Death

as Saint-Just

Mr and Mrs Bureaucrat

as E1A

BBC2 Play of the Week

TV show · as E1A

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

as Don Harris

The Witches of Pendle

as Minister

Playhouse

TV show · as John Lilburne

TV show · as Ian Strawson

The Dolly Scene

as Tom

1960s

12 titles · average score 71

W. Somerset Maugham

TV show · as Hans

Hamlet

63

as Laertes

The Root of All Evil?

TV show · as Clive Pinner

as Peter Bell

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Lancelot Wishart

Callan

76

TV show

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as St Just / Alexei Turbin

Public Eye

83

TV show · as John Sheldon

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Martin

The Wednesday Play

TV show · as Geoffrey Cromlech

Theatre 625

TV show · as Alexander / Wulfnoth

Drama 61-67

TV show · as First youth

1950s

2 titles · average score 68

No Hiding Place

TV show

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Tom / Adrian