biography
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Redgrave, Sir Michael (Scudamore)
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| lived:
| (1908–85)
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| biography:
| Actor, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, became a teacher, and began his acting career at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1934. His many notable stage performances included Richard II (1951), Prospero (1952), Antony (1953), and Uncle Vanya (1962), and he also had a distinguished film career, starting with his appearance in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). He was knighted in 1959, and his autobiography In My Mind's Eye appeared in 1983. He married the actress Rachel Kempson (1910– ) in 1935, and their three children are all actors; Vanessa, Corin (1939– ), and Lynn (1943– ). |
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