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Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave (March 20, 1908 - March 21, 1985) was an English actor. Born in Bristol, the son of the Australian silent film star Roy Redgrave and the actress Margaret Scudamore, he graduated from Cambridge University and was briefly a schoolmaster before becoming an actor in 1934. His first major film role was in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes in 1938.
Redgrave moved to Hollywood after a successful career in the British theatre. His first major American role was opposite Rosalind Russell in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In the early 1950s, he starred in The Browning Version, The Importance of Being Earnest and 1984.
Redgrave was knighted in 1959. He was married to the actress Rachel Kempson for fifty years from 1935 until his death. He is the father of the actor Corin Redgrave and the actresses Lynn Redgrave and Vanessa Redgrave, and the grandfather of the actresses Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson and Jemma Redgrave. He died in a Denham nursing home from Parkinson's disease in 1985, aged 77. He is the author of a play "The Aspen Papers" and four books:
- The Actor's Ways and Means
- Mask or Face
- The Mountebank Tale
- In My Mind's Eye
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