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Kenneth Colley (7 December 1937 — 30 June 2025) was 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 Life of Brian (1979), having also appeared in the earlier 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 (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 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 BBC television drama Pennies from Heaven (1978). He has also recently starred in BBC's HolbyBlue as a drunk and violent father, grandfather and father-in-law. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Colley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Kenneth Colley
Admiral Firmus Piett
for Admiral Firmus Piett in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... It is a dark time for the Rebellion. After a devastating attack on their ice base on the planet of Hoth, the Rebels are scattered across the galaxy in a desperate search of their new base on the planet of Arbra by Imperial pursuit. Luke Skywalker, R2-D2 and Princess Leia seek out the mysterious Jedi Master Yoda in the swamps of Dagobah, while Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO and Winter Retrac outrun the Imperial fleet to the beautiful Cloud City of Bespin. The Emperor determines the resurgence of the Jedi to be a potentially grave threat to the future of the Empire. In an attempt to convert Luke to the dark side, the evil Darth Vader conspires with the galactically renown bounty hunter Boba Fett to lure young Skywalker into a trap. In the midst of a fierce lightsaber duel with the Dark Lord of the Sith, Luke faces a terrible truth about the Skywalker legacy - one that may prove the key to Luke freeing Vader from the Emperor's grasp.
