Ian Redford (actor)

Career

He has appeared widely in English theatre productions and on television and film. He played the main role of Alfieri in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. His film career includes Spaghetti House (1982), The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988), Getting It Right (1989), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), Just Like a Woman (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993), I.D. (1995), and the 1981 BBC TV play Artemis 81. He also starred in Bread or Blood for the BBC, based on William Henry Hudson's The Shepherd's Life. For Channel 4 he was the Henry VIII in Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant.

He received a best actor nomination in the Manchester Evening News awards in 2010 for his role as Creon in Antigone at the Manchester Royal Exchange. The Daily Mail called him "the key to this superb production's success", in a positive review that rated the production 5/5 stars. He was part of Max Stafford-Clark's regular company of actors for Out of Joint Theatre Company appearing in 11 productions over 20 years ; he received praise for his work in Stafford-Clark's touring production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good. He also appeared on stage in David Hare's The Permanent Way.

Redford co-wrote A Dish of Tea With Doctor Johnson with Max Stafford-Clark and Russell Barr and starred as Samuel Johnson in London and Edinburgh, opposite Barr as Boswell. The Guardian rated the production 4/5, saying "the two actors precisely convey ... the constantly shifting nature of the relationship" between the men and concluding "this is a rare treat in which the performers seem to own the material". The Independent praised his performance, "mercurial and greedy". Recently Ian has appeared

Selected theatre

Personal life

Redford is married, has three children and lives in London. He attended Rutlish Grammar School 1962-69, where he took a leading role in many school amateur dramatic productions.