Kenneth Colley
- Interprétation
- 7 décembre 1937 · Manchester, England, UK
- 30 juin 2025
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- L'Institut · Gate Guard #5
- Dan Hawk Psychic Detective · Thaddeus Moncrief
- Scar Tissue · Weaver
- Peaky Blinders · Vicente Changretta
- LEGO Star Wars : L'Empire en vrac · Admiral Piett (Voix)
- Les Enquêtes de Vera · Ronald Devreux
- The Queen
- Misfits · Old Rudy
- Greetings · Ken, Production
- Like Father Like Son · Rawsthorne
- New Tricks
- The Royal · Bernard Hussey
- Les enquêtes de Foyle · Brian Jones
- Sydney Fox, l'aventurière · Professor Lamenza
- Hold Back the Night · Uncle Bob
- Always and Everyone · Joseph
- The Last Train
- The Mrs Bradley Mysteries · Archie Burlington
- Shadow Run · Larcombe
- Inspecteur Barnaby · Lloyd Kirby
- Les virtuoses · Greasley
- El último viaje de Robert Rylands · Archdale
- Solomon & Sheba · Nathan
- Wycliffe · Sam Peploe
- Moving Story · Ken Uttley
- Peak Practice · Stan Jordan
- Unnatural Causes · Inspector Gerry Reckless
- The Secret Life of Arnold Bax · John Ireland
- Between the Lines · Chief Supt. Tattersall
- Heartbeat · Clive Harris
- La Vie de Bohème · Street Sweeper
- Une affaire d'honneur · Capt. Dreyfus
- The Last Island · Nick
- J'ai engagé un tueur · The Killer
- Kremlin Farewell · Sergej
- The Plot to Kill Hitler · Wilhelm Keitel
- The Rainbow · Mr. Brunt
- A Master of the Marionettes · Inspector Tennyson
- Hercule Poirot · Mathew Davenheim
- Les Orages de la guerre · Paul Blobel
- A Summer Story · Jim
- The Play on One · DI Tennyson
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers · Chief Inspector Heat
- When Reason Sleeps · James Bentik
- Casanova · Le Duc
- Inspecteur Morse · DCI Patrick Dawson
- Le dénonciateur · 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: A Hero's Story · Adolf Eichmann
- Screen Two · Sergej
- Return to Waterloo · The Traveller
- Le Retour du Jedi · Admiral Piett
- La Pourpre et le noir · Capt. Hirsch
- Giro City · Martin
- Firefox, l'arme absolue · Colonel Kontarsky
- I Remember Nelson · ice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson
- The Kenny Everett Television Show · En personne
- Peter and Paul · Theodotus
- L'Empire contre-attaque · Admiral Piett
- Minder · Ron
- Monty Python : La Vie de Brian · Jesus
- The Danedyke Mystery · The Major
- Measure for Measure · Duke Vincentio
- Les Misérables · 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
- Jabberwocky · 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