{"id":443317,"date":"2026-05-11T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:59:11","slug":"star-wars-and-shakespeare-actor-michael-pennington-dies-aged-82-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443317\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars and Shakespeare actor Michael Pennington dies aged 82 &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5JNlN6Y3l6SGc0LVVIQkhRVldEQUJoTjFhNzVkbW1UUnY2YVdtM0xFMF9Ba1ROTm40UWJ3Tk05MGlUMUlvQlc1VFFPRm12dG5aYlZnbDRidkxfUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Star Wars and Shakespeare actor Michael Pennington dies aged 82<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxQRElDWjFpeEMxVnJ1aHV2azQ3TVcxYlRRV0xLaUlzY0VVX3B0QUsya2tjVkxZMGRWcjdZaDZDQzdQSWpldXVoY3diNHBJM3NBc2tNWDVaOTQ0N0tOWHo2UFlkZ2V6dmp5T2k5c2Yxc19xQVNFNkprbzhKM29uVzhkajNHQWREeWxVeEc0SEd3MnhieXRIUXFzRDdmSUpYb0FRSTZYM3paNTY?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Pennington, celebrated Shakespearean actor who founded a theatre company \u2013 obituary<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiggFBVV95cUxPVExSOHhLQjloTHRGLTRGc0ZDSXlMOEw5MnRoeGJwNF9oMVEycW40UFBPLV8tWWN6VFhPM2pPakZDOTg1MlNBSW02ZkRrUk5pWXc5X3lmajV0QTRscDRrTXZxa3dCR294TEpZLUtiTURoSzdEVDRjN3hsODVOanZVdG9R?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018Star Wars: Return of The Jedi\u2019 Actor Dies at 82<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Daily Beast<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxNb2RRbXhDS3FNek03TnFQOHd2X2pLWUlzTy1CUEVHLWNCcUt1MUlzbWZ2MW90dF9sbmM4TGk2TVdIeThWNlVpMkhMWW9vV2w5X253alpSY29wRElabzVUbGJZRl8zY3QyeFRITVhTcGVpdzZBMkYxTGt6UmJqN3lPZ0pFMWY?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Star Wars actor dies aged 82 as Miriam Margolyes leads tributes<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Wars and Shakespeare actor Michael Pennington dies aged 82&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCMichael Pennington, celebrated Shakespearean actor who founded a theatre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-443317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}