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Cause of death
  
Prostate cancer

Name
  
Corin Redgrave

Years active
  
1964–2009


Nationality
  
British

Resting place
  
Role
  
Actor

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Full Name
  
Corin William Redgrave

Born
  
16 July 1939 (
1939-07-16
)
Marylebone, London, England

Alma mater
  
Kings College, Cambridge

Occupation
  
Actor, political activist

Died
  
April 6, 2010, Tooting, London, United Kingdom

Siblings
  
Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave

Children
  
Jemma Redgrave, Luke Redgrave, Harvey Redgrave, Arden Redgrave

Spouse
  
Kika Markham (m. 1985–2010), Deirdre Deline Hamilton-Hill (m. 1962–1975)

Movies and TV shows
  
Four Weddings and a Fu, A Man for All Seasons, The Forsyte Saga, Persuasion, In the Name of the Father

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Corin William Redgrave (16 July 1939 – 6 April 2010) was an English actor and far-left political activist.

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Early life

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Redgrave was born on 16 July 1939 in Marylebone, London, the only son and middle child of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. He was educated at Westminster School and King's College, Cambridge.

Career

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Redgrave played a wide range of character roles on film, television and stage.

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On stage, he was noted for performances by Shakespeare (such as Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV, Part 1, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest) and Noël Coward (a highly successful revival of A Song At Twilight co-starring his sister Vanessa Redgrave and his second wife, Kika Markham).

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For his role as the prison warden Boss Whalen in the Royal National Theatre production of Tennessee Williams's Not About Nightingales, Redgrave was nominated for an Evening Standard Award, and after a successful transfer of the production to New York, he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play, in 1999. Two years later he starred in the original London production of The General from America as Benedict Arnold. When the play transferred to Broadway the following season Redgrave switched roles and portrayed George Washington .

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In 2005, Redgrave had just finished an engagement playing the lead in King Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London when he suffered a severe heart attack. In 2008, he returned to the stage in a highly praised portrayal of Oscar Wilde in the one-man-play De Profundis. In 2009, he starred in Trumbo, which opened only hours after the death of his niece, Natasha Richardson.

On screen he is best known for his roles in such acclaimed and diverse films as A Man for All Seasons (1966) as Thomas More's son-in-law; William Roper, Excalibur (1981) as the doomed Cornwall, In the Name of the Father (1993) as the corrupt lead police investigator, Persuasion and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) as Hamish, the fiancee of Andie MacDowell's character.

Redgrave appeared in British television programmes such as Ultraviolet, The Vice, Trial & Retribution, Shameless, Foyle's War, The Relief of Belsen, The Ice House and the Emmy Award-winning telefilm The Girl in the Cafe, in which he played the prime minister. He took the lead part of Sir George Grey in the New Zealand TV miniseries The Governor (1977).

He wrote a play called Blunt Speaking, in which he performed at the Minerva Theatre (a second stage of the Chichester Festival Theatre) between 23 July - 10 August 2002. (review The Mail on Sunday, 28 July 2002)

Politics

Redgrave was a lifelong activist in far-left politics. With his elder sister Vanessa, he was a prominent member of the Workers' Revolutionary Party. Later, after the collapse of the WRP, he was involved with the Marxist Party, which the two siblings founded.

Both Redgrave and his second wife, Kika Markham, expressed support for activist group Viva Palestina, led by British MP George Galloway, attempting to break the siege of the Gaza Strip. He was also a defender of the interests of the Romani people.

Family

Corin Redgrave was part of the third generation of a theatrical dynasty spanning four generations. His parents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson; Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave were his sisters. His first marriage was to Deirdre Deline Hamilton-Hill (1939–1981). They had a daughter, actress Jemma Redgrave, and a son, Luke, a camera operator and production assistant. Redgrave and Hamilton-Hill divorced in 1975. Redgrave and Kika Markham married in 1985 in Wandsworth, London, and remained together until Redgrave's death. The couple had two sons, Harvey (born 1979) and Arden (born 1983).

He wrote a memoir about his strained relationship with his father entitled Michael Redgrave - My Father, which incorporates passages from Michael's diaries. It also revealed his father's bisexuality.

Health problems and death

Redgrave was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000, which continued to affect him until he died in 2010. In June 2005, he was described by his family as being in a critical but stable condition in hospital following a severe heart attack at a public meeting in Basildon, Essex. In March 2009, Redgrave returned to the London stage playing the title role in Trumbo, based on the life of the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. On the opening night, Redgrave dedicated his performance to the memory of his niece Natasha Richardson who had died earlier that week in a skiing accident.

He died on 6 April 2010 in St George's Hospital, Tooting, South West London. His funeral was held on 12 April 2010 at St Paul's, Covent Garden, London and was interred at Highgate Cemetery.

His ex-wife Deirdre died of cancer in 1997. His sister Lynn Redgrave died of breast cancer on 2 May 2010, less than a month after her brother. Kika Markham's memoir of her husband, Our Time of Day: My Life with Corin Redgrave, was published in 2014.

Select stage work

  • Henry IV Part I
  • Anthony and Cleopatra
  • The Seagull
  • Not About Nightingales
  • A Song at Twilight
  • The General From America
  • De Profundis
  • Trumbo
  • Filmography

    Actor
    2010
    Moving On (TV Series) as
    Gabe
    - The Test (2010) - Gabe
    2009
    The Turn of the Screw (TV Movie) as
    Professor
    2009
    Glorious 39 as
    Oliver
    2009
    The Calling as
    The Bishop
    2008
    La rabbia as
    Producer 1
    2007
    The Relief of Belsen (TV Movie) as
    Glyn Hughes
    2005
    The Girl in the Café (TV Movie) as
    Prime Minister
    2005
    The Trial of the King Killers as
    Sir Orlando Bridgman
    2004
    Goode Fellowes (Video short) as
    Redgrave
    2003
    Foyle's War (TV Series) as
    Asst. Commissioner Rose / A.C.C. Rose
    - A War of Nerves (2004) - Asst. Commissioner Rose
    - The Funk Hole (2003) - A.C.C. Rose
    2004
    MI-5 (TV Series) as
    David Swift
    - A Prayer for My Daughter (2004) - David Swift (uncredited)
    2004
    Enduring Love as
    Professor
    2004
    Shameless (TV Series) as
    Mr Hammersley
    - Affairs (2004) - Mr Hammersley
    2003
    Imagine (TV Series) as
    Sir John Soane
    - Entertaining Mr Soane (2003) - Sir John Soane
    2003
    To Kill a King as
    Lord de Vere
    2002
    Epoca: The Making of History (Documentary) as
    Narrator (English version, voice)
    1997
    Trial & Retribution (TV Series) as
    Robert Rylands / Robert Rylands QC, MP / Robert Rylands QC MP / ...
    - Trial & Retribution VI - Part Two (2002) - Robert Rylands QC, MP
    - Trial & Retribution IV - Part Two (2000) - Robert Rylands QC MP
    - Trial & Retribution IV - Part One (2000) - Robert Rylands
    - Trial & Retribution I - Part Two (1997) - Rylands
    - Trial & Retribution I - Part One (1997) - Robert Rylands
    2002
    Waking the Dead (TV Series) as
    Sir James Beatty
    - Special Relationship: Part 2 (2002) - Sir James Beatty
    - Special Relationship: Part 1 (2002) - Sir James Beatty
    2002
    Close Your Eyes as
    Chief Inspector Clements
    2002
    The Forsyte Saga (TV Series) as
    Old Jolyon Forsyte
    - Episode #1.4 (2002) - Old Jolyon Forsyte
    - Episode #1.3 (2002) - Old Jolyon Forsyte
    - Episode #1.2 (2002) - Old Jolyon Forsyte
    - Episode #1.1 (2002) - Old Jolyon Forsyte
    2002
    Bertie and Elizabeth (TV Movie) as
    General Montgomery
    2002
    Sunday (TV Movie) as
    Edward Heath
    2002
    Shackleton (TV Mini Series) as
    Lord Curzon
    - Episode #1.2 (2002) - Lord Curzon
    - Episode #1.1 (2002) - Lord Curzon
    2001
    Gypsy Woman as
    Devine
    2001
    Enigma as
    Admiral Trowbridge
    2000
    Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story as
    Klaus Mann (voice)
    2000
    Honest as
    Duggie Ord
    1999
    The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka: The Mystery of Chopin as
    Judge
    1999
    Kavanagh QC (TV Series) as
    John Woodley
    - The More Loving One (1999) - John Woodley
    1999
    The Vice (TV Series) as
    Lord Buller
    - Dabbling: Part 2 (1999) - Lord Buller
    - Dabbling: Part 1 (1999) - Lord Buller
    1998
    Ultraviolet (TV Mini Series) as
    Dr. Paul Hoyle / John Doe
    - Persona Non Grata (1998) - Dr. Paul Hoyle / John Doe
    - Terra Incognita (1998) - Dr. Paul Hoyle / John Doe
    1998
    The Man Who Drove with Mandela (Documentary) as
    Cecil Williams - One Man Show sequence
    1997
    The Woman in White (TV Movie) as
    Dr. Kidson
    1997
    Prime Suspects as
    Commissioner (uncredited)
    1997
    The Ice House (TV Mini Series) as
    D.C.I. Walsh
    - Episode #1.2 (1997) - D.C.I. Walsh
    - Episode #1.1 (1997) - D.C.I. Walsh
    1996
    Indecent Acts as
    Oscar Wilde
    1995
    Circles of Deceit: Dark Secret (TV Movie) as
    Harry Summers
    1995
    England, My England as
    William of Orange
    1995
    Dangerfield (TV Series) as
    Patrick Hooper
    - The Unfaithful Husband (1995) - Patrick Hooper
    1994
    Performance (TV Series) as
    Earl of Worcester / Angelo
    - Henry IV (1995) - Earl of Worcester
    - Measure for Measure (1994) - Angelo
    1995
    Persuasion (TV Movie) as
    Sir Walter Elliot
    1995
    Screen Two (TV Series) as
    Sir Walter Elliot
    - Persuasion (1995) - Sir Walter Elliot
    1994
    Four Weddings and a Funeral as
    Hamish - Wedding Three
    1993
    In the Name of the Father as
    Robert Dixon
    1993
    The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) as
    Berlioz
    - I, Berlioz (1993) - Berlioz
    1990
    The Fool as
    Sir Thomas Neathouse
    1983
    Wagner (TV Mini Series) as
    Dr. Pusinelli
    - Episode #1.5 (1983) - Dr. Pusinelli
    - Episode #1.1 (1983) - Dr. Pusinelli
    1983
    Eureka as
    Worsley
    1982
    L'ombre sur la plage (TV Movie) as
    Harry
    1981
    Excalibur as
    Cornwall
    1977
    The Governor (TV Mini Series) as
    Sir George Grey
    - To the death (1977) - Sir George Grey
    - The Mutinous Lieutenant (1977) - Sir George Grey
    - No way to treat a lady (1977) - Sir George Grey
    - He Iwi Ko Tahi Tatou (1977) - Sir George Grey
    - The Lame Seagull (1977) - Sir George Grey
    - The Reverend Traitor (1977) - Sir George Grey
    1976
    Surreal Estate as
    Eric Sange
    1974
    Between Wars as
    Dr. Edward Trenbow
    1974
    Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) as
    Octavius (Augustus Caesar)
    1971
    Omnibus (TV Series documentary) as
    Franklin Lushington
    - There Was an Old Person Called Lear- (1971) - Franklin Lushington
    1971
    Vacation as
    Gigi
    1971
    Thick as Thieves (TV Movie) as
    Trevor
    1971
    Von Richthofen and Brown as
    Major Lanoe Hawker VC
    1971
    When Eight Bells Toll as
    Roy Hunslett
    1970
    Paul Temple (TV Series) as
    Rolf
    - Murder in Munich: Part 2 (1970) - Rolf
    - Murder in Munich: Part 1 (1970) - Rolf
    1970
    Callan (TV Series) as
    Amos Green
    - Amos Green Must Live (1970) - Amos Green
    1970
    BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) as
    Godfrey Kneller
    - In Good King Charles's Golden Days (1970) - Godfrey Kneller
    1970
    The Wednesday Play (TV Series) as
    Richard
    - Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred (1970) - Richard
    1970
    Hassan (TV Movie) as
    Rafi
    1970
    David Copperfield (TV Movie) as
    James Steerforth
    1969
    ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV Series) as
    Willie Tatham
    - Aren't We All? (1969) - Willie Tatham
    1969
    Canterbury Tales (TV Series) as
    Nicholas
    - The Miller's Tale/The Reeve's Tale (1969) - Nicholas
    1969
    Tower of London: The Innocent (TV Movie) as
    Perkin Warbeck
    1969
    Oh! What a Lovely War as
    Bertram Biddle 'Bertie' Smith
    1969
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (TV Series) as
    Arthur Huntingdon
    - Pursuit (1969) - Arthur Huntingdon
    - Revolt (1969) - Arthur Huntingdon
    - Marriage (1969) - Arthur Huntingdon
    1968
    Diamonds for Breakfast as
    Museum Visitor with Trilby Hat (uncredited)
    1968
    Mystery and Imagination (TV Series) as
    Jonathan Harker
    - Dracula (1968) - Jonathan Harker
    1968
    The Magus as
    Captain Wimmel
    1968
    The Girl with a Pistol as
    Frank Hogan
    1968
    Theatre 625 (TV Series) as
    Kelvin Walker
    - The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1968) - Kelvin Walker
    1968
    The Charge of the Light Brigade as
    Capt. Featherstonhaugh
    1968
    The Gambler (TV Mini Series) as
    Mr. Astley
    - Episode #1.2 (1968) - Mr. Astley
    - Episode #1.1 (1968) - Mr. Astley
    1967
    The Deadly Affair as
    Terry
    1967
    ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) as
    Luke
    - A Roof Over Our Mouths (1967) - Luke
    1966
    A Man for All Seasons as
    William Roper
    1965
    The Newcomers (TV Series) as
    Tony Hughes / Anthony Hughes
    1966
    The Big Spender (TV Series) as
    Copley
    - The Twist (1966) - Copley
    - The Snatch (1966) - Copley
    1965
    A Study in Terror as
    Rupert's Friend (uncredited)
    1964
    Crooks in Cloisters as
    Brother Lucius
    1964
    The Avengers (TV Series) as
    Quentin Slim
    - Lobster Quadrille (1964) - Quentin Slim
    1964
    Camera Three (TV Series) as
    Pilot Officer
    - Chips with Everything (1964) - Pilot Officer
    1963
    Chips with Everything (TV Movie) as
    Pilot-Offlcer
    1963
    Story Box (TV Series) as
    Theseus
    - Theseus and the Minotaur (1963) - Theseus
    Soundtrack
    1969
    Oh! What a Lovely War (performer: "Are We Downhearted? No!", "Goodbye-ee" - uncredited)
    Thanks
    2010
    Moving On (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
    - The Test (2010) - (in memory of)
    Self
    2006
    Welcome to World War One (Video documentary short)
    2006
    Film '72 (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 16 October 2006 (2006) - Self
    2006
    The King's Head: A Maverick in London (Video documentary) as
    Self
    2005
    2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards (Video) as
    Self - Presenter
    2003
    Arena (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Alec Guinness: A Secret Man (2003) - Self
    2003
    Richard II (TV Movie) as
    Self
    2000
    The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2000 (TV Special) as
    Self
    1996
    Charlie Rose (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest
    - Episode dated 26 March 1999 (1999) - Self - Guest
    - Episode dated 12 February 1996 (1996) - Self - Guest
    1997
    Omnibus (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Michael Redgrave - My Father (1997) - Self
    1992
    Entertainment UK (TV Series) as
    Self - Interviewee
    - Episode dated 6 October 1992 (1992) - Self - Interviewee
    1985
    Fathers by Sons (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Corin Redgrave (1985) - Self
    1977
    The Making of 'The Governor' (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1972
    Right to Work March (Short) as
    Self / Contributor
    1969
    Release (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - David Copperfield/A Single-Handed British Avant-Garde (1969) - Self
    1967
    The 39th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Audience Member
    Archive Footage
    2016
    The Brontes at the BBC (TV Movie documentary) as
    Arthur Huntingdon
    2002
    The Forsyte Saga (TV Series) as
    voice of Old Jolyon
    - Episode #1.6 (2002) - voice of Old Jolyon

    References

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