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person_profile-Kenneth Colley

Kenneth Colley Age: 87

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Dec 07, 1937

Country of birth:

UK

Biography of

Kenneth Colley

    Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is 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 The Life of Brian, having also appeared in the earlier Monty 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 in 1979.

    Colley also held an important role in the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox, where he played a Soviet Colonel tasked with the protection of the Firefox and its secrets.

    Colley went on to play 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 1978 BBC television drama, Pennies from Heaven. He has also recently starred in BBC's HolbyBlue as a drunk and violent father, grandfather and father-in-law.

    He currently lives at Hythe in Kent.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Colley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography of

Kenneth Colley

Found 49 Movies in total

Scar Tissue

Weaver ( Actor )

... 2013

Greetings

Ken ( Actor )

Writer

... 2007

Like Father Like Son

Rawsthorne ( Actor )

... 2005

Shadow Run

Larcombe ( Actor )

... 1998

Brassed Off

Greasley ( Actor )

... 1996

... 1996

Solomon & Sheba

Nathan ( Actor )

... 1995

Unnatural Causes

Inspector Gerry Reckless ( Actor )

... 1993

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax

John Ireland ( Actor )

... 1992

La Vie de Bohème

Street Sweeper ( Actor )

... 1992

Prisoner of Honor

Capt. Dreyfus ( Actor )

... 1991

The Last Island

Nick ( Actor )

... 1990

I Hired a Contract Killer

The Killer ( Actor )

... 1990

Kremlin Farewell

Sergej ( Actor )

... 1990

The Plot to Kill Hitler

Wilhelm Keitel ( Actor )

... 1990

The Rainbow

Mr. Brunt ( Actor )

... 1989

A Master of the Marionettes

Inspector Tennyson ( Actor )

... 1989

A Summer Story

Jim ( Actor )

... 1988

Casanova

Le Duc ( Actor )

... 1987

The Whistle Blower

Bill Pickett ( Actor )

... 1986

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Adolph Eichmann ( Actor )

... 1985

Return to Waterloo

The Traveller ( Actor )

... 1984

Return of the Jedi

Admiral Piett ( Actor )

... 1983

The Scarlet and the Black

Capt. Hirsch ( Actor )

... 1983

Giro City

Martin ( Actor )

... 1982

Firefox

Colonel Kontarsky ( Actor )

... 1982

I Remember Nelson

Vice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson ( Actor )

... 1982

The Empire Strikes Back

Admiral Piett ( Actor )

... 1980

Life of Brian

Jesus ( Actor )

... 1979

Measure for Measure

Duke Vincentio ( Actor )

... 1979

Les Misérables

Police Prefect ( Actor )

... 1978

One Bummer News Day

Frank Benyon ( Actor )

... 1978

Come the Revolution

Bruce Tetley ( Actor )

... 1977

Jabberwocky

1st Fanatic ( Actor )

... 1977

Lisztomania

Frederic Chopin ( Actor )

... 1975

Flame

Tony Devlin ( Actor )

... 1975

Juggernaut

Detective Brown ( Actor )

... 1974

Mahler

Krenek ( Actor )

... 1974

... 1973

The Triple Echo

Provo Corporal ( Actor )

... 1972

The Boy Friend

King in fantasy sequence (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1971

The Devils

Legrand ( Actor )

... 1971

The Music Lovers

Modeste Tchaikovsky ( Actor )

... 1971

Performance

Tony Farrell (as Ken Colley) ( Actor )

... 1970

The Blood Beast Terror

James ( Actor )

... 1968

How I Won the War

2nd Replacement ( Actor )

... 1967

The Jokers

De Winter ( Actor )

... 1967

Three Clear Sundays

Nick ( Actor )

... 1965