Michael Redgrave

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AKA: Sir Michael Redgrave, Michael Scudenmore Redgrave
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 03/20/1908
Birthplace: Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Death Date: 03/21/1985

biography

Tall, distinguished star of the English stage and screen, and a stellar member of the generation of British actors which included Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud. A versatile, sensitive and polished actor, Redgrave made a superb screen debut as the musician hero of the classic Hitchcock thriller, "The Lady Vanishes" (1938). He demonstrated a fine talent for comedy, as in Anthony Asquith's "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1952), as well as playing suffering but reserved, upper-class characters in films such as "The Browning Version" (1951; one of his greatest performances) Continued

Credits

Medical Officer
1965
Leo Colston
1963
Burgomil Trebitsch
1962
Uncle
1961
Actor
1938
William Butler Yeats
Colonel Eisenstein
James Harrington-Smith
Harris
Headmaster
General Medworth
O'Connor
Dr B N Wallis
Air Marshal Hardie
Air Commodore Waltby
Sir Matthew Carr
Percy Brand
David Graham
Sir Arthur Benson Gray

milestones

Year
Milestone
1921 
Amateur acting debut in a walk-on part in "Henry IV, Part 2" at Stratford-on-Avon
 
While at Cambridge, acted in and occasionally directed plays
1934 
Professional acting debut at the Liverpool Playhouse in "Counsellor at Law"
1936 
Joined the Old Vic in the fall; debuted there in "Love's Labour's Lost"
1938 
First credited film appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes"
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