Cast: Michael Redgrave

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Michael Redgrave. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Innocents

1961 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Deborah Kerr · Peter Wyngarde · Megs Jenkins · Pamela Franklin

Plot In Victorian England, the uncle of orphaned niece Flora and nephew Miles hires Miss Giddens as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and authority. Soon...

7.7

8K votes

7.7

8K votes

The Browning Version

1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · Jean Kent · Nigel Patrick · Ronald Howard

Plot Andrew Crocker-Harris, "The Crock" as his students call him, knows he isn't loved like the fictional Mr. Chips, but in the span of just over a day he is forced...

7.5

663 votes

7.5

663 votes

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

1962 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Tom Courtenay · Michael Redgrave · James Bolam · Avis Bunnage

Plot A Borstal boy has nothing going for him except the ability to run. He is selected to compete against a public school and starts a training programme, during which he...

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

The Lady Vanishes

1938 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Michael Redgrave · Dame May Whitty · Paul Lukas

Plot While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Max

7.4

6K votes

7.4

6K votes

The Hill

1965 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Sean Connery · Harry Andrews · Ian Bannen · Alfred Lynch

Plot In a British Army "glasshouse" (military detention camp) in the Libyan Desert, the prisoners are British soldiers convicted of service offences such as insubordination, drunkenness on duty, or profiteering, and...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Go-Between

1971 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Julie Christie · Alan Bates · Margaret Leighton · Michael Redgrave

Plot Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Dead of Night

1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti · Basil Dearden · Charles Crichton · Robert Hamer

Cast Michael Redgrave · Googie Withers · Mervyn Johns · Roland Culver

Plot Visiting a country house, architect Walter Craig realises that it and his fellow guests are familiar from a recurring nightmare. As the guests share their own tales of the supernatural,...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

A Diary for Timothy

1945 · Documentary · 40 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Humphrey Jennings

Cast Michael Redgrave · Myra Hess · John Gielgud

Plot This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in...

7.0

42 votes

7.0

42 votes

The 25th Hour

1967 · Movie · 130 min. · France

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Anthony Quinn · Virna Lisi · Grégoire Aslan · Michael Redgrave

Plot Wartime drama, with Anthony Quinn as a Romanian farmer who falls foul of a local police captain (Gregoire Aslan) who desires Quinn's wife (Virna Lisi).

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Mr. Arkadin (Confidential Report)

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Robert Arden · Orson Welles · Paola Mori · Akim Tamiroff

Plot Orson Welles’s "Mr. Arkadin" tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past. Welles missed the editing deadline, so the producer handed over...

Max

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971 · Movie · 183 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Michael Jayston · Janet Suzman · Tom Baker · Laurence Olivier

Plot The tragic story of Nicholas II (1868-1918), the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. It is an inside look into the private lives of...

6.8

928 votes

6.8

928 votes

The Years Between

1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

6.8

24 votes

6.8

24 votes

Secret Beyond the Door...

1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Joan Bennett · Michael Redgrave · Anne Revere · Barbara O'Neil

Plot In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

1984

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Jan Sterling · Michael Redgrave · Donald Pleasence

Plot In a futuristic, state-run society controlled by "Big Brother" in which love is outlawed, employee of the state Winston Smith falls for Julia, and is tortured and brainwashed for his...

6.7

716 votes

6.7

716 votes

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1969 · Movie · 152 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Peter O'Toole · Petula Clark · Michael Redgrave · Alison Leggatt

Plot In this updated musical version of the James Hilton novel, Peter O'Toole plays Chips, the shy professor who falls in love with a musical-comedy actress (played by Petula Clark), complete...

6.7

713 votes

6.7

713 votes

The Magic Box

1951 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Robert Donat · Margaret Johnston · Maria Schell · Renée Asherson

Plot Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that...

6.7

42 votes

6.7

42 votes

The Importance of Being Earnest

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · Richard Wattis · Michel Dennison · Walter Hudd

Plot Jack Worthing lives in the country with his pretty ward Cecily Cardew. But in the city, he goes by the name of Earnest and is in love with Gwendolyn Fairfax....

6.6

541 votes

6.6

541 votes

The Way to the Stars

1945 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · John Mills · Rosamund John · Douglass Montgomery

Plot Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber...

6.6

27 votes

6.6

27 votes

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959 · Movie · 111 min. · Ireland

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast James Cagney · Don Murray · Dana Wynter · Glynis Johns

Plot 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...

6.6

117 votes

6.6

117 votes

The Captive Heart

1946 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Michael Redgrave · Rachel Kempson · Frederick Leister · Mervyn Johns

Plot In the summer of 1940, Captain Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave), a Czech soldier, escapes from Dachau concentration camp and assumes the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell....

6.5

41 votes

6.5

41 votes