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Michael Pennington
Born in Cambridge in 1943, educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge
1961-1964
He appeared with the National Youth Theatre and all University Dramatic Societies continually. He first played Hamlet at Cambridge in 1964 and also Troilus.
Joined the RSC 1964
Small parts in Wars of the Roses cycle (Richard II, Henry VI, Part 1, Edward IV and Richard III) and The Merchant of Venice; Mathias in The Jew of Malta; Fortinbras in Hamlet; Titus in Timon of Athens; and Dumaine in Love's Labour's Lost.
1965
Turned down for a part in the TV soap Crossroads. (Perhaps because he could act?)
1966
- Theatre
- Stark in a series of four readings of the play The Investigation by Peter Weiss;
- Double Bill
- Bimbo in The Ballad of the False Barman (Hampstead Theatre Club)
- Television
- Thirteen Against Fate
- Drama 67
- Conquest
1967
- Theatre
- Trapp in The Judge (Cambridge Theatre & tour)
- Gerald Arbutnot in A Woman Of No Importance (Vaudeville)
- Television
1968
- Reading
- It’s No Go The Merry-Go-Round (billed as "A Poetry
Show About Crisis") (Young Vic)
- Television
- Anyone for Tennis
- No Easy Walk
- The Tycoon
- Middlemarch
1969
- Theatre
- Laertes in Hamlet (Round House and Lunt-Fontaine
Theatre, New York)
- Film
1970
- Theatre
- Leonidik in The Promise(Playhouse, Sheffield)
- Television
Thanks to Mary Hunwicks for the information on MP's career
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