Kenneth Colley
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- 7 de diciembre de 1937 · Manchester, England, UK
- 30 de junio de 2025
Biografía
Kenneth Colley (7 December 1937 — 30 June 2025) was an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Colley was born in Manchester. He played Jesus (very briefly indeed) in Life of Brian (1979), having also appeared in the earlier Python-related production Ripping Yarns episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" alongside Michael Palin. As a Shakespearean actor, he played the Duke of Vienna in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Measure for Measure (also 1979). Colley also held an important role in the Clint Eastwood film Firefox, as a Soviet Colonel tasked with the protection of the Firefox and its secrets. Colley portrayed SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel in the World War II drama War and Remembrance. His character was charged with hiding the evidence of the Holocaust, and putting dead victims through "Economic Processing". According to comments Terry Gilliam (who directed him in Jabberwocky and co-starred with him in Life of Brian) made in the DVD audio commentaries for both films, Colley is a terrible stutterer in real life. When he had a role in a film, however, he could recite the lines perfectly. Stuttering is a character trait, however, in his role as the "Accordion Man" in the BBC television drama Pennies from Heaven (1978). He has also recently starred in BBC's HolbyBlue as a drunk and violent father, grandfather and father-in-law. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Colley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- El Instituto · Gate Guard #5
- Dan Hawk Psychic Detective · Thaddeus Moncrief
- Scar Tissue · Weaver
- Peaky Blinders · Vicente Changretta
- Lego Star Wars: El imperio contra todos · Admiral Piett (Voz)
- Vera · Ronald Devreux
- The Queen
- Misfits · Old Rudy
- Greetings · Ken, Dirección
- Like Father Like Son · Rawsthorne
- New Tricks
- The Royal · Bernard Hussey
- Foyle's War · Brian Jones
- Cazatesoros · Professor Lamenza
- Hold Back the Night · Uncle Bob
- Always and Everyone · Joseph
- The Last Train
- The Mrs Bradley Mysteries · Archie Burlington
- Fuera de cobertura · Larcombe
- Los asesinatos de Midsomer · Lloyd Kirby
- Tocando el viento · Greasley
- El último viaje de Robert Rylands · Archdale
- Salomón y la Reina de Saba · Nathan
- Wycliffe · Sam Peploe
- Moving Story · Ken Uttley
- Peak Practice · Stan Jordan
- Propósitos Perversos · Inspector Gerry Reckless
- The Secret Life of Arnold Bax · John Ireland
- Between the Lines · Chief Supt. Tattersall
- Heartbeat · Clive Harris
- La vida de bohemia · Street Sweeper
- Prisoner of Honor · Capt. Dreyfus
- The Last Island · Nick
- Contraté a un asesino a sueldo · The Killer
- Kremlin Farewell · Sergej
- Complot para matar a Hitler · Wilhelm Keitel
- El arcoiris · Mr. Brunt
- A Master of the Marionettes · Inspector Tennyson
- Agatha Christie: Poirot · Mathew Davenheim
- Recuerdos de guerra · Paul Blobel
- Aquel inolvidable verano · Jim
- The Play on One · DI Tennyson
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers · Chief Inspector Heat
- When Reason Sleeps · James Bentik
- Casanova · Le Duc
- Inspector Morse · DCI Patrick Dawson
- La sombra del delator · Bill Pickett
- Casualty · Paddy, Clifford Watkins
- John Silver's Return to Treasure Island · Ben Gunn
- Mussolini: The Untold Story · King Vittorio Emmanuele
- Function Room
- Wallenberg: La Historia de un Héroe · Adolf Eichmann
- Screen Two · Sergej
- Return to Waterloo · The Traveller
- El retorno del Jedi · Admiral Piett
- Escarlata y negro · Capt. Hirsch
- Giro City · Martin
- Firefox. El arma definitiva · Colonel Kontarsky
- I Remember Nelson · ice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson
- The Kenny Everett Television Show · En persona
- Pedro y Pablo · Theodotus
- El imperio contraataca · Admiral Piett
- Minder · Ron
- La vida de Brian · Jesus
- The Danedyke Mystery · The Major
- Measure for Measure · Duke Vincentio
- Los miserables · Police Prefect
- One Bummer News Day · Frank Benyon
- The BBC Television Shakespeare · Duke Vincentio
- Pennies from Heaven · The Accordion Man
- Come the Revolution · Bruce Tetley
- The Testing of Eric Olthwaite · Robber
- Target · Jessal
- La bestia del reino · 1st Fanatic
- Dickens of London · Robert Seymour
- Three Days in Szczecin · Edmund Bałuka
- The Chester Mystery Plays
- Ripping Yarns · Robber
- Lisztomania · Frederic Chopin
- Flame · Tony Devlin