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Michael Redgrave
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Biography
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager and author. He is the father of actors Vanessa, Corin and Lynn Redgrave.
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Innocents
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Importance of Being Earnest
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Mourning Becomes Electra
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Great War
As Narrator
Dead of Night
As Maxwell Frere (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
The Lady Vanishes
As Gilbert Redman
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
As Mr. Nyland
Secret Agent
As Army Officer (uncredited)
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Quiet Art of the British Character Actor
Eight films that celebrate the scene-stealers, the scene-setters, and the soul of British cinema: the character actors who make every frame richer.
8 films
Ghosts in the Machine
From a stuntman's final role to a star's digital encore, these eight films trace cinema's long affair with performing from beyond the grave.
8 films
Glass Houses That Refuse to Let You Leave
A tour of haunted architecture, from a 2001 remake's clockwork glass prison back through Italian gothic and the black-and-white British ghost story, where the b...
8 films
The Mother Who Comes Back Wrong
A chain of films where the woman who gave you life returns as something else: a ghost, a double, a hunger with her face. Other Mommy opens the door, and the bes...
8 films
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The Great War
1964 · Narrator
The Innocents
1961 · The Uncle
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959 · Mr. Nyland
The Importance of Being Earnest
1952 · Ernest Worthing
The Browning Version
1951 · Andrew Crocker-Harris
Mourning Becomes Electra
1947 · Orin Mannon
Dead of Night
1945 · Maxwell Frere (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
The Way to the Stars
1945 · Flight Lt. David Archdale
The Lady Vanishes
1938 · Gilbert Redman
Secret Agent
1936 · Army Officer (uncredited)