Corin Redgrave

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Corin Redgrave (2007)

Corin William Redgrave (born July 16, 1939 in London , † April 6, 2010 ) was a British actor .

Life

Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, to actresses Rachel Kempson and Michael Redgrave . His sisters are actresses Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave . He attended Westminster School and received a scholarship to study age languages and classics at King's College of the University of Cambridge . However, he later switched subjects and studied English . During his student days he met the actors Trevor Nunn and Ian McKellen .

After graduating, he began his artistic career as an assistant director at the Royal Court Theater in London. His first own production followed in 1961 with The Scarecrow , an adaptation of Leonid Andreev's novel The Seven Hanged Men . In 1962 he made his acting debut as Lysander in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Court Theater. This was followed by Sebastian in Was Ihr wollt (1962, Royal Court Theater), Mr. Bodley in The Right Honorable Gentleman by Michael Dyne (1964, Her Majesty's Theater, London) and Cecil Graham in Lady Windermeres Fächer (1966, Phoenix Theater) . In 1972/1973 he played Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors , Octavius ​​Caesar in Julius Caesar and Antonius in Antonius and Cleopatra for the Royal Shakespeare Company .

In 1998, he played at Cottesloe Theater in London the role of Bert Whalen in But none of nightingales by Tennessee Williams . Also in 1998 he appeared with Vanessa Redgrave and Kika Markham at the Gielgud Theater in Noël Coward's play A Song At Twilight , in which he drew an impressive portrait of a homosexual man who suppresses his true feelings. Later theater roles were the title role in Macbeth and again alongside Vanessa Redgrave Leonid Andrejewitsch Gajew in Der Kirschgarten (both 2000). In 2004 he took on the title role in King Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2005 he gave readings with Oscar Wilde's De Profundis ; Most recently, he appeared in 2009 at the Jermyn Street Theater on a program in which he read letters from communist Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo .

His film career began in 1964 with the role of Brother Lucius in the crime comedy Crooks in Cloisters . In 1966 he played under the direction of Fred Zinnemann as William Roper the son-in-law of Thomas More in the period film A Man in Every Season , based on the play of the same name by Robert Bolt . In 1967 he played David in Sidney Lumet's thriller Call for the Dead . 1968 followed the role of Captain Featherstonhaugh in Tony Richardson's The Attack of the Light Brigade . He later worked in the films Excalibur and Four Weddings and a Death, among others . In 1995 he took on the role of Sir Walter Elliot in the literary film adaptation of Jane Austen's Seduction , based on the novel Persuasion by Jane Austen, in a BBC production . In the remake of the Forsyte Saga from 2003 he played the role of Jolyon Forsyte Sr. He also appeared in some television series, such as in 1970 on the side of Francis Matthews and Ros Drinkwater in a double episode of the British-German co-production Paul Temple .

Private

Redgrave, an avowed Marxist , was a politically thinking and acting actor throughout his life. Together with his sister Vanessa Redgrave, he was a member of the Workers' Revolutionary Party and founded with her their own political party called Peace and Progress . Among other things, he demonstrated against the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and supported the charity Viva Palestina .

Redgrave published a biography of his father in 1995 with the title My Father , in which he also addressed his bisexuality or homosexuality . Michael Redgrave was in a relationship with the playwright Noël Coward, in whose plays Corin Redgrave appeared several times.

Redgrave had had prostate cancer since 2000 . In 2005 he suffered a serious heart attack . Redgrave died on April 6, 2010 at St George's Hospital, Tooting , South West London.

Redgrave was married twice. In 1962 he married Deirdre Hamilton-Hill, a former model . The marriage ended in divorce in 1975. Deirdre Hamilton-Hill died of cancer in 1997 . This marriage had two children, actress Jemma Redgrave and cameraman Luke Redgrave . Corin Redgrave was married to the actress Kika Markham from 1985 in the second marriage . Two other sons Redgraves (* 1979 and * 1983) come from this connection.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corin Redgrave obituary in: Daily Telegraph, April 6, 2010
  2. ↑ Interview with Corin Redgrave p. 4, The Theater Archive Project
  3. ^ Corin Redgrave obituary obituary in The Guardian, April 6, 2010
  4. ↑ Corin Redgrave Biography (1939-) biography and list of roles at Filmreference.com
  5. ^ Corin Redgrave dies Obituary in: Der Standard from April 6, 2010
  6. ^ Actor Corin Redgrave dies obituary in: Die Presse from April 6, 2010
  7. ^ Britain's first family of acting mourns loss of its father figure Obituary in: The Independent of April 7, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Redgrave, Corin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Redgrave, Corin William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Marylebone , London
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2010
Place of death London , England