Michael Redgrave

Michael Redgrave

Birthday: 1908-03-20

Place of Birth: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Biography: Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager and author.

Movies

The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel i...

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Secret Beyond the Door
Secret Beyond the Door

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly ...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealin...

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1984
1984

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by fall...

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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is f...

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Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of th...

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Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

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The Hill
The Hill

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to strug...

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The Dam Busters
The Dam Busters

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...

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Dead of Night
Dead of Night

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his rec...

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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lew...

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The Go-Between
The Go-Between

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the be...

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster ...

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Time Without Pity
Time Without Pity

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a week...

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The Stars Look Down
The Stars Look Down

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better su...

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Mr. Arkadin
Mr. Arkadin

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detectiv...

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The Way to the Stars
The Way to the Stars

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Bri...

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks o...

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The Innocents
The Innocents

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghost...

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Nicholas and Alexandra
Nicholas and Alexandra

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overt...

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The Browning Version
The Browning Version

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public ...

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The 25th Hour
The 25th Hour

A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture i...

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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
The Sea Shall Not Have Them

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret infor...

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Mourning Becomes Electra
Mourning Becomes Electra

Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tyco...

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The Magic Box
The Magic Box

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...

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The Captive Heart
The Captive Heart

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The ...

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The Night My Number Came Up
The Night My Number Came Up

British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pil...

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Goodbye Gemini
Goodbye Gemini

Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relat...

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The Quiet American
The Quiet American

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...

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Thunder Rock
Thunder Rock

David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lig...

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The Years Between
The Years Between

After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new ...

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Atlantic Ferry
Atlantic Ferry

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic b...

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Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George T...

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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
The Wreck of the Mary Deare

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove t...

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Young Cassidy
Young Cassidy

In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restr...

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A Diary for Timothy
A Diary for Timothy

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titul...

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The Happy Road
The Happy Road

Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents...

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Kipps
Kipps

A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama....

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Behind the Mask
Behind the Mask

A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patien...

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Assignment K
Assignment K

Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. S...

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The Green Scarf
The Green Scarf

A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier, confesses to committing a murder, apparently without m...

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The Big Blockade
The Big Blockade

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early y...

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Connecting Rooms
Connecting Rooms

Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the...

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A Window in London
A Window in London

A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife wh...

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No, My Darling Daughter
No, My Darling Daughter

A British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a myster...

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Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival....

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Law and Disorder
Law and Disorder

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths t...

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Stolen Life
Stolen Life

Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for Germ...

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Oh... Rosalinda!!
Oh... Rosalinda!!

Pseudonym Dr. Falke follows his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna....

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Heidi
Heidi

Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to g...

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Climbing High
Climbing High

Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model ...

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Shake Hands with the Devil
Shake Hands with the Devil

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. ...

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

A two-part program that examines the life of Samuel Coleridge from his orphaned childhood to how his...

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Fame Is the Spur
Fame Is the Spur

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately beco...

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The Questioning City
The Questioning City

Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave, this film shows the colleges and student life of Cambridge in 1963...

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Secret Agent
Secret Agent

During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switze...

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Michael Redgrave: My Father
Michael Redgrave: My Father

Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, natur...

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Palaces of a Queen
Palaces of a Queen

Filmed tour of the royal palaces in Great Britain....

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Kyoto
Kyoto

Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha re...

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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

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The Immortal Land
The Immortal Land

Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece....

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The Man Within
The Man Within

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers....

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David Copperfield
David Copperfield

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...

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The Heroes of Telemark
The Heroes of Telemark

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf P...

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The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill

Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."...

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Jeannie
Jeannie

Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of...

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The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway

Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all st...

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Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depres...

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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost

An American ambassador moves his family into a haunted English castle....

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The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time
The Greatest All-Star Advertial of All Time

This madcap comic short features (incredibly) Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave and a young Peter O'...

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Ruggles of Red Gap
Ruggles of Red Gap

English butler comes to the Wild West to work for newly rich hicks - finds it unbearable - but then ...

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