Kenneth Colley

Kenneth Colley 7 December 1937 30 June 2025 was an English actor A longtime 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 Pythonrelated 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 SSStandartenführer 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 costarred 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 BBCs HolbyBlue as a drunk and violent father grandfather and fatherinlaw Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Colley licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia