Kenneth Colley

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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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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1937-12-07
  • event Death Date Unknown
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 4.2
  • info Birth Place Manchester, England, UK
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7.8

Life of Brian

1979-08-17

8.4

The Empire Strikes Back

1980-05-20

6

Firefox

1982-06-18

6.9

I Hired a Contract Killer

1990-10-12

7

Brassed Off

1996-11-01

7

The Scarlet and the Black

1983-02-02

7.1

Les Misérables

1978-12-27

0

A Master of the Marionettes

1989-04-18

5.5

The Blood Beast Terror

1968-02-01

6

The Jokers

1967-05-15

8.6

Solomon & Sheba

1995-02-26

5.2

Hold Back the Night

1999-06-10

6.7

Return to Waterloo

1984-11-01

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Kremlin Farewell

1990-04-01

5.8

Lisztomania

1975-10-10

6.5

The Music Lovers

1971-02-12

6.1

Robert Rylands' Last Journey

1996-10-18

0

Unnatural Causes

1993-01-02

5.8

The Rainbow

1989-05-05

3

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

1985-04-07

5.5

Scar Tissue

2013-09-12

6

Jabberwocky

1977-03-28

6

The Plot to Kill Hitler

1990-01-30

6.3

LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out

2012-09-24

7.9

Return of the Jedi

1983-05-25

4.4

Casanova

1987-03-01

6.6

The Boy Friend

1971-12-16

6.2

A Summer Story

1988-08-11

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High Kampf

1973-08-28

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Who Pays?

1968-01-19

6.8

Like Father Like Son

2005-01-24

5

Giro City

1982-11-01

8

Dance of the Seven Veils

1970-02-15

7.2

Flame

1975-02-13

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The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

1977-09-22

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The Danedyke Mystery

1979-06-03

6.1

Juggernaut

1974-09-25

6.3

The Triple Echo

1972-11-16

5

Three Clear Sundays

1965-04-07

5.8

The Whistle Blower

1986-11-21

6.7

Performance

1970-08-03

6.8

Mahler

1974-04-04

4.1

Shadow Run

1998-01-01

0

I Remember Nelson

1982-04-14

7.5

The Devils

1971-07-16

6

Seventy Deadly Pills

1963-01-01

5.5

How I Won the War

1967-10-18

6.1

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973-04-19

7.5

La Vie de Bohème

1992-02-27

1

Greetings

2007-10-23

5.7

The Last Island

1990-11-16

6.2

Prisoner of Honor

1991-11-02

6

Measure for Measure

1979-02-18

6

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax

1992-11-22

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One Bummer News Day

1978-12-12

0

Come the Revolution

1977-10-25

7.6

Midsomer Murders

1997-03-23

6

Wycliffe

1994-07-24

7.4

The Last Train

1999-04-07

7.7

The Avengers

1961-01-07

7.7

The Sweeney

1975-01-02

7

Heartbeat

1992-04-10

6.7

Relic Hunter

1999-09-25

7.8

Inspector Morse

1987-01-06

5.3

Hazell

1978-01-16

7.3

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

1971-09-20

3.7

No Hiding Place

1959-09-16

5.9

Play for Today

1970-10-15

7.4

New Tricks

2004-01-01

7.8

Pennies from Heaven

1978-03-07

6.8

Fall of Eagles

1974-03-15

10

The Expert

1968-07-05

10

The Expert

1968-07-05

5

Judge Dee

1969-04-08

5

Crown Court

1972-10-11

5.2

BBC Television Shakespeare

1978-12-03

3.8

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965-10-07

7.9

Foyle's War

2002-10-27

5.5

Dear Mother... ...Love Albert

1969-09-15

7

John Silver's Return to Treasure Island

1986-04-05

7

The Kenny Everett Television Show

1982-02-25

5.5

Peak Practice

1993-05-10

7.6

The Royal

2003-01-19

6.8

Minder

1979-10-29

5.9

Casualty

1986-09-06

7.4

Ripping Yarns

1976-01-07

7.4

Vera

2011-05-01

5.9

Casualty

1986-09-06

5.9

Casualty

1986-09-06

7

The Queen

2009-11-29

8.1

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989-01-08

5.2

Mussolini: The Untold Story

1985-11-24

4.5

The Wednesday Play

1964-09-30

0

The Love School

1975-01-22

4

I Remember Nelson

1982-04-07

6.8

Peter and Paul

1981-04-12

5.6

Between the Lines

1992-09-04

7.7

Misfits

2009-11-12

5.9

Play for Today

1970-10-15

6.9

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

1998-08-31

0

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

1988-01-10

8.5

Peaky Blinders

2013-09-12

6

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

1985-04-08

5

A for Andromeda

1961-10-03

5.7

The Protectors

1972-09-29

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