Kenneth Colley has sadly passed away.
The British actor, best known for playing Admiral Piett in the original Star Wars series and Jesus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, died at the age of 87 on June 30 at his home in Kent, England, per his agent Julian Owen.
Kenneth passed away after contracting COVID and developing pneumonia, the agent said in a statement provided to the BBC, per Deadline.
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“Ken Colley was one of our finest character actors with a career spanning 60 years,” the agent said in a statement.
“Ken continually worked on stage, film, and television playing a vast array of characters, from Jesus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian to evil and eccentric characters in Ken Russell films, and the Duke of Vienna in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure for the BBC.”
He had originally been admitted to hospital with an injured arm after a fall, but quickly contracted COVID that became pneumonia, via BBC‘s reporting.
More recently, Kenneth reprised the role of Admiral Piett in the 2012 animated film Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out. He was also in Firefox, I Hired a Contract Killer, and The Rainbow.
The statement went on: “Ken’s favourite part was playing Estragon in the stage production of Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot at the Cockpit Theatre in London in 2014.”
Our thoughts are with Kenneth Colley’s loved ones at this incredibly difficult time. RIP. We have sadly lost all of these stars in 2025.
