Remembering Michael Scudamore Redgrave (1908-85), the great English film, television, stage and radio actor / producer / playwright / screenwriter and author, born in Bristol #OnThisDay. His acting career spanned from Shakespeare at the Old Vic in the 1930s and Fritz Lang's #SecretBeyondTheDoor (1947) to the Uncle in Jack Clayton's #TheInnocents (1961) and several classic British films...

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Unforgettable as the musicologist hero of Hitchcock's #TheLadyVanishes (1938) and the fracturing ventriloquist in the standout segment of Ealing's #DeadOfNight (1945).

#MichaelRedgrave #BritishActor #BritishHorror #BritishCinema #Gothic #GothicHorror #GhostStories

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@CineRequiem #deadofnight ought to get a lot more recognition than it does. Fabulous little film in which Redgrave is excellent.