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Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) 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.
The Redgrave family is a British acting dynasty, spanning five generations. Members of the family worked in theatre beginning in the nineteenth century, and later in film and television . Some family members have also written plays and books.
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, manager and author. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), as well as two BAFTA nominations for Best British Actor for his performances in The Night My Number Came Up (1955) and Time Without ...
The Night My Number Came Up is a 1955 British supernatural drama film directed by Leslie Norman and starring Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim and Alexander Knox. [1] The screenplay by R. C. Sherrif was based on an incident in the life of British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard whose journal was published in The Saturday Evening Post of 26 May 1951.
Shakespeare for My Father is a one-woman play written [1] and performed by Lynn Redgrave. The play concerns Redgrave's relationship with her father, the imposing actor and family patriarch Sir Michael Redgrave. The play was produced and directed by Redgrave's then husband John Clark with lighting designed by Thomas Skelton.
Vanessa Redgrave was born on 30 January 1937 in Blackheath, London, [3] the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. [4] Laurence Olivier announced her birth to the audience at a performance of Hamlet at the Old Vic, when he said that Laertes (played by Sir Michael) had a daughter. Accounts say Olivier announced, "A great ...
Rachel, Lady Redgrave (28 May 1910 – 24 May 2003), known primarily by her birth name Rachel Kempson, was an English actress. [1] She married Sir Michael Redgrave , and was the matriarch of the famous acting dynasty.
This was accomplished with the help of Sir Michael Redgrave (who'd taught the epic poem as a young schoolmaster before becoming an actor) and with the additional use of sound and music to enhance, support, and illustrate the poem's dramatic and often difficult language. The Wikipedia article on photoanimation explains the technique used for ...