Michael Redgrave
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Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE, a British stage and film actor, producer, and author, born in 1908.
He was nominated for his work in Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), as well as two BAFTA awards for his role in The Night My Number Came Up (1955) and Time Without Pity (1957). He was named Best Actor for his role in The Browning Version (1951), which was on display at the 4th Cannes Film Festival.
Youth and education
Redgrave's uncle, Margaret Scudamore, and silent film actor Roy Redgrave, was born in Bristol, England. When Redgrave was six months old, Roy left to pursue a career in Australia. He died when Redgrave was 14 years old. Captain James Anderson, a tea planter, was later married by his mother. Redgrave was greatly dissatisfied with his stepfather.
He attended Clifton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, England. The first purpose-built school theatre in the country, which opened in 1966, was Clifton College Theatre. The building was renamed The Redgrave Theatre in his honor following his death in 1985.
He served as a schoolmaster at Cranleigh School in Surrey before becoming an actor in 1934. He supervised the boys in Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest, but he had to do all the leading roles himself. After him, the Redgrave Theatre Society at the school was named. Sir Michael Redgrave Studio was named for him in the new Guildford School of Acting building, which opened in January 2010.
Personal life
Rachel Kempson, a British actress, was married to him for 50 years from 1935 to his death. Vanessa (b. ): Their children were all born Vanessa (b.) Corin (1939-2010) and Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010), as well as their grandchildren: Natasha Richardson (1963–2009), Joely Richardson (b. b. 1939). Jemma Redgrave (b. 1965) and Ida Redgrave (b. ). As actors, 1965-year-old actors are also active in theatre or film. Carlo Gabriel Nero, the family's grandson, is a screenwriter and film producer; only Luke Redgrave has taken a route outside the theater.
Lynn's daughter performed Shakespeare for My Father, a one-woman performance for herself. For this role, she was nominated for the Tony Award of Broadway. She traced her affection for Shakespeare as a way of finding her often absent father.
White Roding Windmill was owned by Redgrave from 1937 to 1946. From 1945 to 1954, he and his family lived in Bedford House on Chiswick Mall. Wilks Water, Odiham, Hampshire, Hampshire, who's Who's Who in the Theatre (1981) gives his address as Wilks Water, Odiham, Hampshire.
Corin assisted his father in the writing of his last autobiography. "There's something I should tell you," the former Corin father said on one of Corin's visits to his father. "I am, to say the least of it, bisexual," the singer says after a long pause. Corin encouraged him to confess to his bisexuality in the novel. Redgrave promised to do so, but in the end, he decided to remain anonymous about it. p.274 Alan Strachan's 2004 biography of Redgrave addresses both men and women. Although Redgrave had long-term relationships with men, he was also vulnerable to cruising Victoria or Knightsbridge for what he called "a necessary degradation," a pattern of quick pick-ups that left him with a lasting sense of self-disgust.
Michael Redgrave: My Father, narrated by Corin Redgrave and based on his book of the same title, addresses his father's bisexuality in a more in depth. Rachel Kempson recalled that Redgrave said that there were "difficulties to do with his appearance" and that she preferred not to marry "not to marry." She said she knew, it didn't matter, and she loved him. "Very well," Redgrave replied, "Very well." We're positive, we'll be fine."
Redgrave and Bob Michell met in 1948 during Fritz Lang's Secret Beyond the Door (1948), and the two became engaged shortly after. Michell built a house in the Redgraves and became a "uncle" for the Redgrave's children, who adored him at the age of 11, 9 and 5 years old. Michell later had children of his own, including a son named Michael. Fred Sadoff, a director and producer, became Redgrave's assistant and lover, who rented flats in New York and London. p.178–183
A card was discovered among Redgrave's effects after his death. The card was marked "Tommy, Liverpool, January 1940," and on it were the words (quoted from W.H.). (Love is the word that describes Auden): "The word is love." One fearless kiss would surely cure the million fevers."
Redgrave was diagnosed with rapidly progressing Parkinson's disease in 1976, after suffering with symptoms for many years. He began a regimen of therapies and medications that caused confusion and other side effects. The family was unable to request federal assistance from the King George's Pension Fund due to the family's rising earning power. "For a long time, nobody understood the Parkinson's disease, and doctors thought I was forgetful or inebriated," he said in an interview on his 70th birthday. The challenge isn't limited to remembering lines, but moving from place to place. "P.258 is the point of a p. 258 "."
Redgrave died in a nursing home in Denham, Buckinghamshire, on March 21, 1985, the day after his 77th birthday. His ashes were scattered in the garden of St Paul's, Covent Garden, London, where he was cremated at Mortlake Crematorium.
Theatre career
Redgrave made his first professional appearance at the Playhouse in Liverpool on August 30th as Roy Darwin in Counsellor-at-Law, Elmer Rice), then spent two years with the Liverpool Repertory Company, where he met his future wife Rachel Kempson. They married on July 18, 1935.
On September 14, 1936, Tyrone Guthrie's Redgrave made his London debut in his career, appearing in Love's Labours Lost, a play by Ferdinand. He appeared in The Country Wife, Orlando, Warbeck in As You Like It, Edmonton and Laertes to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet from 1936 to 1937. Orlando was his season-best hit. Edith Evans was his Rosalind, and the two became in love instantly. "Edith had a tradition of falling in love with her leading men," the author explained later. As You Like It began in February 1937 and Redgrave returned to Orlando for the second time.
He appeared in The Bat in 1934 and Three Sisters at the Embassy Theatre in March 1937 before returning to the Old Vic in April, replacing Marius Goring in George Fisher's comedy A Ship Comes Home at the St Martin's Theatre in April, and Baron Tusenbach in Three Sisters.
Other roles included:
After the outbreak of war, he appeared in London theatres: he performed:
Redgrave joined the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman in July 1941 (HMS Illustrious), but in November 1942, he was dismissed on medical grounds. Having spent the majority of 1942 in the Reserve, he was able to direct Lifeline (Norman Armstrong) at the Duchess Theatre in July; and The Duke in Darkness (Patrick Hamilton) starring Leslie Banks at the St James' Theatre in October, as well as a Gribaud.
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He appeared at the New Theatre for the 1949–50 season.
Redgrave first appeared in The Tempest, Hotspur, and Chorus, as well as playing Richard II, Hotspur, and Chorus in the Cycle of Histories, which also directed Henry IV Part Two. Frank Elgin appeared in the Winter Journey in 1951 as Frank Elgin and Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, as well as his actor Jeremy Kempson, who appeared as Antony and Antony in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Paris; on October 16, 1953, he appeared as Googie Withers as his mother in Stratford, Belgium, and Paris.
Hector in Tiger at the Gates, a player in Hector in Tiger at the Gates, appeared in the same capacity at the Plymouth Theatre, New York City in October 1955, for which he was given the New York Critics' Award. He directed and appeared in A Month in the Country at the Phoenix Theatre in April 1956, and in November 1956 he directed and performed Prince Regent in The Sleeping Prince at the Coronet Theatre.
Redgrave appeared in A Touch of the Sun (N. C. Hunter) at the Saville Theatre in January 1958. In 1958, he was named Best Actor in the Evening Standard Awards for his work. In June 1958, he rejoined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company to perform Hamlet and Benedick, as well as playing Hamlet with the company in Leningrad and Moscow. (In Romeo and Juliet, his wife Rachel Kempson played Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing and Lady Capulet.)
He appeared at the Queen's Theatre in London in August 1959. In his own adaptation of the Henry James novella The Aspern Papers. His play was then revived on Broadway in 1962, starring Dame Wendy Hiller and Maurice Evans. Vanessa Redgrave, as well as Christopher Reeve and Hiller, were among the Miss Bordereau characters in the 1984 London revival.
Roles included:
He appeared in the Chichester Festival Theatre's opening season in 1962, playing the title role in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya to Laurence Olivier, who also directed.
Uncle Vanya of Chichester was first revived in Chichester in 1963 as part of the nascent Royal National Theatre's inaugural season, winning rave reviews and Redgrave's second award as Best Actor in the 1963 Evening Standard Awards, alongside John Dexter's Chichester staging of Saint Joan. "In Redgrave's Vanya, you saw both a tremulous victim of a lifetime's emotional repression and the wasted potential of a Chekhovian might-have-been: We didn't know that this was to symbolize the end of their artistic life" "People were never to know that this was to heralde the end of their artistic life." Critic Michael Billington recalled:
Lancelot Dodd MA in Arthur Watkyn's Out of Bounds appeared in Matthew Watkyn's Out of Bounds at Wyndham's Theatre in November 1962, following it at the Old Vic with his portrayal of Claudius opposite Peter O'Toole's Hamlet. This Hamlet was actually the National Theatre's formal opening performance, directed by Olivier, but Simon Callow has dubbed it "slow, solemn, long," while Ken Campbell characterized it as "brochure theatre."
"I couldn't do the Lancashire accent and that shook my nerves terribly," the National's Choice champion admitted in January 1964, which was well outside of his potential: all the other performances suffered." He also played Halvard Solness in The Master Builder, which he described as 'going wrong' while at the National in June 1964. At this time, he had acute Parkinson's disease but had no idea it existed.
Redgrave produced the opening festival of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford in 1965, as Natalya Petrovna and Samson Agonistes (co-starring Rachel Kempson as Chorus). In September 1965, Rakitin's performance was transferred to London's Cambridge Theatre. He directed Werther in 1966 and La bohème in 1967 for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
"I remember playing Mr Jaraby in The Old Boys (William Trevor) in July 1971, but I didn't get any lines from the prompter, and they made me wear a deaf aid to hear some lines from the prompter, and it literally fell to pieces, so I knew I couldn't go on, at least not learning new plays."
Despite this, he did a good job with Father in John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father, who appeared in Canada and Australia in the role from 1972 to 1973.
He appeared in David Winters' musical television film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Kirk Douglas in 1973.
In 1974–77, he returned to the international touring of A Voyage Round My Father, appearing in major cities in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, while In 1976–77, Shakespeare's People, his father returned to South America, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Shakespeare's People toured South America, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Redgrave's last theatre performance came in May 1979, when he portrayed Jasper in Simon Gray's Close of Play, directed on the National Theatre by Harold Pinter on the Lyttelton stage. It was a sombre, seated role based on Gray's own father, who died a year before he wrote the script. "Jasper is in fact dead, but he's compelled to continue, a classic English middle-class style, with occasional grumbling at his feet for repentance and occasionally blaming him for assistance and sobbing at his feet for mercy." Gray has said "Jasper is dead, but he's basically ignored him." I had put him in Hell, which turned out to be 'life, old life itself'."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's last work, a tale about the Ancient Mariner's life and filmed by producer-director Raul da Silva, received six international film festival awards, five of which were first place in category, including five of the first five finalists. This was supposed to be his last session before Parkinson's disease took over.