“difficulties to do with his nature, and that he felt he ought not to marry”
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Michael Redgrave
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave was an English actor and filmmaker. Beginning his career in theatre, he first appeared in the West End in 1937. He made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes in 1938. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
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Born 20 March 1908 · Died 21 March 1985 · Q318263
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Michael Redgrave: My Father - Where to Watch
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1986· 1 entry
Was inducted posthumously into the American Theater Hall of Fame
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1985· 1 entry
Died 1985-03-21.
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1976· 1 entry
After suffering symptoms for many years, Redgrave was diagnosed with rapidly advancing Parkinson's disease
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1975· 1 entry
Redgrave narrated the epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (a poem that Redgrave taught as a young schoolmaster)
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1970· 1 entry
Played Polonius in an ITV production of Hamlet that was broadcast in the United States as a Hallmark Hall of Fame special, and in 1973 he played a supporting role in David Winters' musical television film adaptation o
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1966· 1 entry
By Redgrave as the first purpose-built school theatre in the country
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1963· 1 entry
Before transferring to the Old Vic as part of the nascent National Theatre's inaugural season, winning rave reviews and Redgrave's second win as Best Actor at the 1963 Evening Standard Awards
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1953· 1 entry
(together with his actress wife, Rachel Kempson) appearing as Shylock, King Lear and Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, also playing Antony when the company transferred to the Prince's Theatre in November 1953, before touri
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1951· 4 entries
Awarded Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for The Browning Version (1951).
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Starred in The Browning Version, from Terence Rattigan's play of the same name
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Redgrave received the Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival) for The Browning Version
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The Motion Picture Herald annual poll of British film exhibitors showed that Redgrave was ranked in ninth place on a list of the most popular British stars at the box office
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1946· 1 entry
The Motion Picture Herald annual poll of British film exhibitors showed that Redgrave was ranked in fourth place on a list of the most popular British stars at the box office
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1937· 1 entry
Their children Vanessa (b. 1937), Corin (1939–2010) and Lynn Redgrave (1943–2010), and their grandchildren Natasha Richardson (1963–2009), Joely Richardson (b. 1965) and Jemma Redgrave (b. 1965) have also been involved in theatre and film as actors.
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1935· 1 entry
And his adaptations of A Woman in Love (Amourese) at the Embassy Theatre in 1949 and the Henry James novella The Aspern Papers at the Queen's Theatre, in 1959
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-03-20.
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