{"id":1595,"date":"2026-05-10T20:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-actor-dead-at-82\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:46:24","slug":"star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-actor-dead-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-actor-dead-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Star Wars: Return of the Jedi&#8217; actor dead at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Michael Pennington, who starred in  \u201cStar Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi\u201d has died.<\/p>\n<p>The actor died Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/10\/michael-pennington-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Telegraph reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was 82 years old.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"8924968\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77469671;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"8924968\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/michael-pennington-moff-jerjerrod-star-127417900.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Pennington as Moff Jerjerrod in Star Wars The Return of the Jedi.\" class=\"wp-image-8924968\"  \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">20th Century Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Pennington played Death Star Commander Moff Jerjerrod in 1983\u2019s \u201cStar Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/10\/celebrity-news\/star-wars-return-of-the-jedi-actor-dead-at-82\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Pennington, who starred in \u201cStar Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi\u201d has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/michael-pennington-marianne-faithfull-1969-127418933.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}