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Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, KBE, Order of the
British Empire|CBE (March 20, 1908 — March
21, 1985) was an United Kingdom|English actor and
the son of the Australian silent film star Roy
Redgrave and the actress Margaret Scudamore. Born
in Bristol he graduated from Cambridge University
and was briefly a schoolmaster at Cranleigh school
in Surrey, England|Surrey before becoming an actor
in 1934.  His first major film role was in Alfred
Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes in 1938.

Redgrave moved to Hollywood after a successful
career in the British theatre.  His first major
American role was opposite Rosalind Russell in
Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, for which he was
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. 
In the early 1950s, he starred in the films The
Browning Version (1951), The Importance of Being
Earnest (1952) and 1984 (1956 movie)|1984 (1956).

Redgrave was knighted in 1959 and he was married
to the actress Rachel Kempson for fifty years from
1935 until his death. He is the father of actor
Corin Redgrave and actresses Lynn Redgrave and
Vanessa Redgrave, as well as the grandfather of
the actresses Natasha Richardson, Joely
Richardson, Jemma Redgrave and actor Carlo Gabriel
Nero (son of Vanessa and Franco Nero).  He died in
a Denham nursing home from Parkinson's disease in
1985, aged 77. He is the author of a play "The
Aspern Papers" (based on a short story by Henry
James) and four books:
*The Actor's Ways and Means
*Mask or Face
*The Mountebank Tale
*In My Mind's Eye