Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is a British 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 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.
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- Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is a British 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 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. Colley currently resides in Hythe, Kent.
- Kenneth Colley, auch unter dem Namen Ken Colley bekannt, ist ein britischer Schauspieler. Lange Zeit war er Charakterdarsteller. Doch durch seine Rolle als Admiral Piett in den Star-Wars-Filmen Das Imperium schlägt zurück und Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter wurde er einem breiteren Publikum bekannt. Kenneth Colley spielte den Jesus in der provokanten Komödie Das Leben des Brian. Auch in der früheren Monty-Python-Produktion Riping Yarns spielte er in einer Episode neben Michael Palin. Als Shakespeare-Schauspieler spielte er 1979 den Herzog von Wien in der BBC-Fernsehproduktion des Shakespeare-Stückes Measure for Measure. Ken Colley erhielt auch in der dem Clint-Eastwood-Film Firefox eine wichtige Rolle als sowjetischer Oberst Kontarsky, dessen Aufgabe es ist, den Firefox und seine Geheimnisse zu beschützen. Colley spielte in dem Zweiten-Weltkriegs-Drama War and Remembrance den SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel, dessen Aufgabe es ist, die Tatsache des Holocausts mit seinen vielen Todesopfern zu verschleiern. Entsprechend einer Bemerkung von Terry Gilliam (Regisseur bei Jabberwocky und Co-Star in Das Leben des Brian), die dieser bei den Audiokommentaren zu den DVDs beider Filme machte, sei Ken Colley im wahren Leben ein furchtbarer Stotterer. Wenn er eine Rolle spielt, könne er seinen Text jedoch perfekt wiedergeben. Colley spielte in seiner jahrzehntelangen Karriere in unzähligen Fernsehproduktionen mit. In den frühen 1980er Jahren verkörperte er in der Miniserie I Remember Nelson den Admiral Lord Nelson. Zuletzt war er in der BBC-Serie Holby Blue als trinkender und gewalttätiger Vater, Großvater und Schwiegervater zu sehen. Ken Colley lebt gegenwärtig in Hythe in der südostenglischen Grafschaft Kent.
- Kenneth Colley to brytyjski aktor, znany najlepiej jako Admirał Piett w Imperium kontratakuje i Powrocie Jedi. Grał również Jezusa w Żywocie Briana.
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- Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is a British 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 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.
- Kenneth Colley, auch unter dem Namen Ken Colley bekannt, ist ein britischer Schauspieler. Lange Zeit war er Charakterdarsteller. Doch durch seine Rolle als Admiral Piett in den Star-Wars-Filmen Das Imperium schlägt zurück und Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter wurde er einem breiteren Publikum bekannt. Kenneth Colley spielte den Jesus in der provokanten Komödie Das Leben des Brian. Auch in der früheren Monty-Python-Produktion Riping Yarns spielte er in einer Episode neben Michael Palin.
- Kenneth Colley to brytyjski aktor, znany najlepiej jako Admirał Piett w Imperium kontratakuje i Powrocie Jedi. Grał również Jezusa w Żywocie Briana.
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