{"id":2410599,"date":"2026-05-10T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2410599"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:57:08","slug":"star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-actor-dead-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-actor-dead-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Star Wars: Return of the Jedi&#8217; actor dead at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Michael Pennington, who starred in  \u201cStar Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi\u201d has died.<\/p>\n<p>The actor died Sunday, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/10\/michael-pennington-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Telegraph reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was 82 years old.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8924968\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">20th Century Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pennington played Death Star Commander Moff Jerjerrod in 1983\u2019s \u201cStar Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Other notable roles the British actor played was Laertes in 1969\u2019s \u201cHamlet\u201d and Michael Foot in 2011\u2019s \u201cThe Iron Lady.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pennington also founded the\u00a0English Shakespeare Company\u00a0in 1986 with theater director Michael Bogdanov, which promotes the work of William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Pennington, who starred in \u201cStar Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi\u201d has died. The actor died Sunday, the Telegraph reported. He was 82 years old. 20th Century Fox Pennington played Death Star Commander Moff Jerjerrod in 1983\u2019s \u201cStar Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.\u201d Other notable roles the British actor played was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2410600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,21912,23300],"class_list":["post-2410599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-movies","tag-star-wars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Star-Wars-Return-of-the-Jedi-actor-dead-at-82.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410601,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410599\/revisions\/2410601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}