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.
Movie | Scar Tissue | Weaver | 2013-09-12 |
Movie | LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out | Admiral Piett (voice) | 2012-09-24 |
Series | The Queen | 2009-11-29 | |
Movie | Greetings | Ken | 2007-10-23 |
Movie | Like Father Like Son | Rawsthorne | 2005-01-24 |
Movie | Hold Back the Night | Uncle Bob | 1999-06-10 |
Movie | Shadow Run | Larcombe | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | Robert Rylands' Last Journey | Archdale | 1996-10-18 |
Movie | Brassed Off | Greasley | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Solomon & Sheba | Nathan | 1995-02-26 |
Movie | Unnatural Causes | Inspector Gerry Reckless | 1993-01-02 |
Movie | La Vie de Bohème | Street Sweeper | 1992-02-27 |
Movie | The Secret Life of Arnold Bax | John Ireland | 1992-11-22 |
Movie | Prisoner of Honor | Capt. Dreyfus | 1991-11-02 |
Movie | The Plot to Kill Hitler | Wilhelm Keitel | 1990-01-30 |
Movie | The Last Island | Nick | 1990-11-16 |
Movie | Kremlin Farewell | Sergej | 1990-04-01 |
Movie | I Hired a Contract Killer | The Killer | 1990-10-12 |
Movie | A Master of the Marionettes | Inspector Tennyson | 1989-04-18 |
Movie | The Rainbow | Mr. Brunt | 1989-05-05 |
Movie | A Summer Story | Jim | 1988-08-11 |
Movie | Casanova | Le Duc | 1987-03-01 |
Series | John Silver's Return to Treasure Island | Ben Gunn | 1986-04-05 |
Movie | The Whistle Blower | Bill Pickett | 1986-11-21 |
Movie | Wallenberg: A Hero's Story | Adolph Eichmann | 1985-04-07 |
Series | Mussolini: The Untold Story | King Vittorio Emmanuele | 1985-11-24 |
Movie | Return to Waterloo | The Traveller | 1984-11-01 |
Movie | The Scarlet and the Black | Capt. Hirsch | 1983-02-02 |
Movie | Return of the Jedi | Admiral Piett | 1983-05-25 |
Movie | Firefox | Colonel Kontarsky | 1982-06-18 |
Movie | I Remember Nelson | Vice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson | 1982-04-14 |
Movie | Giro City | Martin | 1982-11-01 |
Series | Peter and Paul | Theodotus | 1981-04-12 |
Movie | The Empire Strikes Back | Admiral Piett | 1980-05-20 |
Movie | Measure for Measure | Duke Vincentio | 1979-02-18 |
Movie | Life of Brian | Jesus | 1979-08-17 |
Movie | Les Misérables | Police Prefect | 1978-12-27 |
Series | Pennies from Heaven | The Accordion Man | 1978-03-07 |
Movie | One Bummer News Day | Frank Benyon | 1978-12-12 |
Movie | Jabberwocky | 1st Fanatic | 1977-03-28 |
Movie | Come the Revolution | Bruce Tetley | 1977-10-25 |
Movie | Flame | Tony Devlin | 1975-02-13 |
Movie | Lisztomania | Frederic Chopin | 1975-10-10 |
Movie | Mahler | Krenek | 1974-04-04 |
Movie | Juggernaut | Detective Brown | 1974-09-25 |
Movie | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Boldt | 1973-04-19 |
Movie | The Triple Echo | Provo Corporal | 1972-11-16 |
Movie | The Devils | Legrand | 1971-07-16 |
Movie | The Music Lovers | Modeste Tchaikovsky | 1971-02-12 |
Movie | The Boy Friend | King in fantasy sequence (uncredited) | 1971-12-16 |
Movie | Dance of the Seven Veils | 1970-02-15 | |
Movie | Performance | Tony Farrell (as Ken Colley) | 1970-08-03 |
Movie | The Blood Beast Terror | James | 1968-02-01 |
Movie | How I Won the War | 2nd Replacement | 1967-10-18 |
Movie | The Jokers | De Winter | 1967-05-15 |
Movie | Three Clear Sundays | Nick | 1965-04-07 |
Movie | Seventy Deadly Pills | Covent Garden porter | 1963-01-01 |