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Scar Tissue

as Weaver

2013
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out

as Admiral Piett (voice)

2012
Greetings

as Ken

2007
Like Father Like Son

as Rawsthorne

2005
Shadow Run

as Larcombe

1998
I Hired a Contract Killer

as The Killer

1990
The Plot to Kill Hitler

as Wilhelm Keitel

1990
A Summer Story

as Jim

1988
The Whistle Blower

as Bill Pickett

1987
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

as Adolph Eichmann

1985
The Scarlet and the Black

as Capt. Hirsch

1983
Firefox

as Colonel Kontarsky

1982
Life of Brian

as Jesus

1979
Measure for Measure

as Duke Vincentio

1979
The Music Lovers

as Modeste Tchaikovsky

1971
Performance

as Tony Farrell (as Ken Colley)

1970
Seventy Deadly Pills

as Covent Garden porter

1963
Kenneth Colley Kenneth Colley

Birthday

1937-12-07

Place of Birth

Manchester, England, UK

Biography

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 BBC's 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.
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