Michael Redgrave — Actor (38)
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Assignment K (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Assignment K
director: Val Guest actor: Stephen Boyd / Camilla Sparv …
other title: Superspia K / Geheimauftrag K …
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
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Young Cassidy (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Young Cassidy
director: Jack Cardiff actor: Rod Taylor / Julie Christie …
other title: Il magnifico irlandese / O Rebelde Sonhador …
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.
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The 25th Hour (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La Vingt-cinquième Heure
director: Henri Verneuil actor: Anthony Quinn / Virna Lisi …
other title: La 25ª ora / Femogtyvende time …
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
director: Herbert Ross actor: Peter O'Toole / Petula Clark …
other title: Adiós, Mr. Chips
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
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Hedda Gabler (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hedda Gabler
director: Alex Segal actor: Ingrid Bergman / Michael Redgrave …
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.
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Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Shake Hands with the Devil
director: Michael Anderson actor: James Cagney / Don Murray …
other title: Il fronte della violenza / Ein Händedruck des Teufels …
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization by his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
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Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Mourning Becomes Electra
director: Dudley Nichols actor: Rosalind Russell / Michael Redgrave …
other title: Il lutto si addice ad Elettra / Le deuil sied à Électre …
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
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The Captive Heart (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Captive Heart
director: Basil Dearden actor: Michael Redgrave / Rachel Kempson …
other title: Cuore prigioniero / Das gefangene Herz …
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.
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Time Without Pity (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Time Without Pity
director: Joseph Losey actor: Michael Redgrave / Ann Todd …
other title: L'alibi dell'ultima ora / Tempo Impiedoso …
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
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The Quiet American (1958) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Quiet American
director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Audie Murphy / Michael Redgrave …
other title: Un americano tranquillo / Den stilfærdige amerikaner …
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
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A Christmas Carol (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Christmas Carol
director: Richard Williams actor: Alastair Sim / Michael Redgrave …
other title: Un Cuento De Navidad / A Christmas Carol (film 1971)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
director: Lewis Gilbert actor: Michael Redgrave / Dirk Bogarde …
During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
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A Diary for Timothy (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Diary for Timothy
director: Humphrey Jennings actor: Michael Redgrave / Myra Hess …
A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.