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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• 2025Dan Hawk Psychic Detective — Thaddeus Moncrief
• Інститут — Gate Guard #5
• 2013Scar Tissue — Weaver
• Гострі картузи — Vicente Changretta
• 2012LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out — Admiral Piett (voice)
• Віра — Ronald Devreux
• The Queen
• Покидьки — Old Rudy
• 2007Greetings — Ken, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2005Like Father Like Son — Rawsthorne
• New Tricks
• The Royal — Bernard Hussey
• Війна Фойла — Brian Jones
• Always and Everyone — Joseph
• 1999Hold Back the Night — Uncle Bob
• The Last Train
• Мисливці за старовиною — Professor Lamenza
• 1998Shadow Run — Larcombe
• The Mrs Bradley Mysteries — Archie Burlington
• Суто англійські вбивства — Lloyd Kirby
• 1996Brassed Off — Greasley
• 1996Robert Rylands' Last Journey — Archdale
• 1995Solomon & Sheba — Nathan
• Moving Story — Ken Uttley
• Wycliffe — Sam Peploe
• Peak Practice — Stan Jordan
• 1993Unnatural Causes — Inspector Gerry Reckless
• Between the Lines — Chief Supt. Tattersall
• Heartbeat — Clive Harris
• 1992La Vie de Bohème — Street Sweeper
• 1992The Secret Life of Arnold Bax — John Ireland
• 1991Prisoner of Honor — Capt. Dreyfus
• 1990I Hired a Contract Killer — The Killer
• 1990Kremlin Farewell — Sergej
• 1990The Last Island — Nick
• 1990The Plot to Kill Hitler — Wilhelm Keitel
• 1989A Master of the Marionettes — Inspector Tennyson
• 1989The Rainbow — Mr. Brunt
• Пуаро Аґати Крісті — Mathew Davenheim
• 1988A Summer Story — Jim
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Chief Inspector Heat
• The Play on One — DI Tennyson
• War and Remembrance — Paul Blobel
• 1987Casanova — Le Duc
• Inspector Morse — DCI Patrick Dawson
• Casualty — Paddy, Clifford Watkins, Arthur Cobb
• John Silver's Return to Treasure Island — Ben Gunn
• 1986The Whistle Blower — Bill Pickett
• Function Room
• Mussolini: The Untold Story — King Vittorio Emmanuele
• Screen Two — Sergej
• Wallenberg: A Hero's Story — Adolf Eichmann
• 1984Return to Waterloo — The Traveller
• 1983The Scarlet and the Black — Capt. Hirsch
• 1983Зоряні війни: Епізод 6 — Повернення джедая — Admiral Piett
• 1982Giro City — Martin
• I Remember Nelson — ice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson
• 1982Вогняний лис — Colonel Kontarsky
• Peter and Paul — Theodotus
• 1980Зоряні війни: Епізод 5 — Імперія завдає удару у відповідь — Admiral Piett
• 1979Measure for Measure — Duke Vincentio
• Minder — Ron
• 1979The Danedyke Mystery — The Major
• 1979Буття Брайана за Монті Пайтоном — Jesus
• 1978Les Misérables — Police Prefect
• 1978One Bummer News Day — Frank Benyon
• Pennies from Heaven — The Accordion Man
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Duke Vincentio
• 1977Come the Revolution — Bruce Tetley
• 1977Jabberwocky — 1st Fanatic
• Target — Jessal
• 1977The Testing of Eric Olthwaite — Robber
• Dickens of London — Robert Seymour
• Ripping Yarns — Robber
• 1976The Chester Mystery Plays
• 1976Three Days in Szczecin — Edmund Bałuka
• 1975Flame — Tony Devlin
• 1975Lisztomania — Frederic Chopin
• The Love School — Edward Burne-Jones
• The Sweeney — Noah Riley
• Churchill's People — Ancient Beau
• Fall of Eagles — Father Gapon
• 1974Juggernaut — Detective Brown
• 1974Mahler — Krenek
• Black and Blue — Schultz
• 1973Hitler: The Last Ten Days — Boldt
• Crown Court — Stanley Meredith
• New Scotland Yard — Peter Elliot
• The Protectors — Devlin
• 1972The Triple Echo — Provo Corporal
• 1971The Boy Friend — King in fantasy sequence (uncredited)
• 1971The Music Lovers — Modeste Tchaikovsky
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes — Farrish
• 1971Дияволи — Legrand
• 1970Dance of the Seven Veils
• 1970Performance. — Tony Farrell
• Play for Today — Bruce Tetley, Frank Benyon
• Dear Mother... ...Love Albert
• Judge Dee
• 1968Cause of Death — Dr. Emil Justin
• 1968The Blood Beast Terror — James
• The Expert — Foreman, Munt
• 1968Who Pays? — Corbett
• City '68 — Corbett
• 1967How I Won the War — 2nd Replacement
• Omnibus — Hitler
• 1967The Jokers — De Winter
• 1966Macbeth — Macbeth's servant
• The Informer — Slater
• BBC Play of the Month — Yolinichev
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Paddy, Dr. Emil Justin, Adolf Hitler, Charles I
• 1965Three Clear Sundays — Nick
• It's Dark Outside — Hammond
• Redcap — Private Bolt
• The Wednesday Play — Bethold Florenberg
• 1963Seventy Deadly Pills — Covent Garden porter
• The Avengers
• No Hiding Place
• Armchair Theatre — Jimmy

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• The Kenny Everett Television Show — Self