The veteran British actor worked often with Ken Russell and members of Monty Python and played a Soviet colonel in Clint Eastwood's 'Firefox.'

“It is with great sadness to report that my client Kenneth Colley passed away Monday 30th June at around 5:30pm in hospital in Ashford, Kent. He was 87,” Owen wrote. “He had been admitted after a fall with an injured arm, however he quickly contracted Covid which developed into Pneumonia.”

Kenneth Colley portrayed Admiral Piett in the original 'Star Wars' trilogy and Jesus in Monty Python's 1979 comedy 'Life of Brian'