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 BBCs HolbyBlue as a drunk and violent father, grandfather and father-in-law.He currently lives at Hythe in Kent.Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Colley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jesus
Film 1979
The Killer
Film 1990
Inspector Tennyson
Film 1989
James
Film 1968
Nathan
Film 1995
Uncle Bob
Film 1999
The Traveller
Film 1984
Sergej
Film 1990
Modeste Tchaikovsky
Film 1971
Archdale
Film 1996
Inspector Gerry Reckless
Film 1993
Weaver
Film 2013
1st Fanatic
Film 1977
King in fantasy sequence (uncredited)
Film 1971
Jim
Film 1988
Corbett
Film 1968
Rawsthorne
Film 2005
Martin
Film 1982
Film 1970
Tony Devlin
Film 1975
Robber
Film 1977
The Major
Film 1979
Provo Corporal
Film 1972
Nick
Film 1965
Krenek
Film 1974
Larcombe
Film 1998
Vice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson
Film 1982
Covent Garden porter
Film 1963
2nd Replacement
Film 1967
Street Sweeper
Film 1992
Ken
Film 2007
Nick
Film 1990
Duke Vincentio
Film 1979
John Ireland
Film 1992
Frank Benyon
Film 1978
Bruce Tetley
Film 1977
Lloyd Kirby
Tv 1997
Sam Peploe
Tv 1994
Tv 1999
Tv 1961
Clive Harris
Tv 1992
Professor Lamenza
Tv 1999
DCI Patrick Dawson
Tv 1987
Tv 1978
Farrish
Tv 1971
Tv 1959
Tv 2004
Bruce Tetley
Tv 1970
Father Gapon
Tv 1974
Foreman
Tv 1968
Munt
Tv 1968
Tv 1969
Stanley Meredith
Tv 1972
Tv 1978
Tv 2002
Tv 1969
Ben Gunn
Tv 1986
Self
Tv 1982
Stan Jordan
Tv 1993
Bernard Hussey
Tv 2003
Robber
Tv 1976
Ronald Devreux
Tv 2011
Tv 2009
Mathew Davenheim
Tv 1989
Bethold Florenberg
Tv 1964
Edward Burne-Jones
Tv 1975
ice-Adm. Horatio Viscount Nelson
Tv 1982
Chief Supt. Tattersall
Tv 1992
Old Rudy
Tv 2009
Frank Benyon
Tv 1970
Archie Burlington
Tv 1998
Chief Inspector Heat
Tv 1988
Vicente Changretta
Tv 2013
Dead Body (uncredited)
Tv 1961
Adolf Eichmann
Tv 1985
Hitler
Tv 1967