Highest rated movie: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Lowest rated movie: Scar Tissue (2013)
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Movies starring Kenneth Colley have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.
The Empire Strikes Back - released in 1980 - is Kenneth Colley's highest rated movie, with a score of 87% based on 933 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Kenneth Colley is Scar Tissue - released in 2013 - with a score of 31% based on 1 reviews.
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.
Kenneth Colley has acted in films with Imogen Claire, Oliver Reed, Julian Glover and Andrew Faulds.
Kenneth Colley has worked with these film directors: Ken Russell, Richard Lester, Clint Eastwood and Aki Kaurismäki.
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