1937-12-07 ( 87 years old ) in Manchester, England, UK
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.
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Movies
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Scar Tissue
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LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
2012-09-24
Greetings
2007-10-23
Like Father Like Son
2005-01-24
Hold Back the Night
1999-06-10
Shadow Run
1998-01-01
Brassed Off
1996-11-01
Robert Rylands' Last Journey
1996-10-18
Solomon & Sheba
1995-02-26
Unnatural Causes
1993-01-02
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
1992-11-22
La Vie de Bohème
1992-02-27
Prisoner of Honor
1991-11-02
The Last Island
1990-11-16
I Hired a Contract Killer
1990-10-12
Kremlin Farewell
1990-04-01
The Plot to Kill Hitler
1990-01-30
The Rainbow
1989-05-05
A Master of the Marionettes
1989-04-18
A Summer Story
1988-08-11
Casanova
1987-03-01
The Whistle Blower
1986-11-21
Return to Waterloo
1984-11-01
Return of the Jedi
1983-05-25
The Scarlet and the Black
1983-02-02
Giro City
1982-11-01
Firefox
1982-06-18
I Remember Nelson
1982-04-14
The Empire Strikes Back
1980-05-20
Life of Brian
1979-08-17
The Danedyke Mystery
1979-06-03
Measure for Measure
1979-02-18
Les Misérables
1978-12-27
One Bummer News Day
1978-12-12
Come the Revolution
1977-10-25
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
1977-09-22
Jabberwocky
1977-03-28
Lisztomania
1975-10-10
Flame
1975-02-13
Juggernaut
1974-09-25
Mahler
1974-04-04
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973-04-19
The Triple Echo
1972-11-16
The Boy Friend
1971-12-16
The Devils
1971-07-16
The Music Lovers
1971-02-12
Performance
1970-08-03
Dance of the Seven Veils
1970-02-15
The Blood Beast Terror
1968-02-01
Who Pays?
1968-01-19
How I Won the War
1967-10-18
The Jokers
1967-05-15
Three Clear Sundays
1965-04-07
Seventy Deadly Pills
1963-01-01
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