Roy Redgrave
Roy Redgrave and Miss Tittell Brune appearing in Leah Kleschna circa 1907.
Birth name	George Edward Redgrave
Born	April 26, 1873 Kennington, Lambeth, South London, England, United Kingdom
Died	May 25, 1922 (aged 49) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse(s)	Margaret Scudamore (m. ? – 25 May 1922) (his death) 1 child = Michael Redgrave Ellen Maud Pratt (m. September 1894 – div. ?) 3 children = John Kyrle, Robin Roy and Nallie Maud Esther Mary Cooke (m. ? div. ?) 1 child = Victor
Official site	Family website

Roy Redgrave (26 April 1873^[1] – 25 May 1922) was a stage and silent film actor. Roy Redgrave was the eldest son of George Augustus Redgrave, a maker of the board game Bagatelle, and Zoe Beatrice Elsworthy Pym and was the patriarch of the Redgrave acting family. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Roy Redgrave and Miss Tittell Brune appearing in Leah Kleschna circa 1907. ... April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Kennington is an area of south London, situated within the London Borough of Lambeth. ... Lambeth is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... South London area South London (known colloquially as South of the River) is the area of London south of the River Thames. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Australia. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $305,437 (1st)  - Product per capita  $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006)  - Population  6,817,100 (1st)  - Density  8. ... Look up wife in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... “Matrimony” redirects here. ... The term Unknown is used in a number of contexts: To indicate the lack of knowledge, such as the list of unsolved problems, unsolved problems in physics or the unknown unknown To refer to anonymity In mathematics, as a noun, the unknowns of an equation are the quantities (or variables... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... Look up September in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... For the record label, see Divorce Records. ... April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... The Redgrave family is one of the enduring theatrical dynasties, which is now into its fifth generation. ...

Early Life

Born George Edward Redgrave in Kennington, a district of Lambeth in South London in late 1872 or early 1873, Redgrave was by 1897 professionally known as 'Roy' Redgrave apparently in the belief that he was descended from Rob Roy. The Redgrave family originated in the Northamptonshire village of Crick and a tentative link has been established to another Northamptonshire village Stowe Nine Churches in the early 16th Century. Roy also assumed the middle name "Elsworthy" from his mother Zoe Beatrice Elsworthy Pym, and his sister took the stage name Dolly Elsworthy. Kennington is an area of south London, situated within the London Borough of Lambeth. ... Lambeth is a place in the London Borough of Lambeth. ... South London area South London (known colloquially as South of the River) is the area of London south of the River Thames. ... Portrait engraving of Rob Roy circa 1820s Robert Roy MacGregor, (March 7, 1671 - December 28, 1734) usually known simply as Rob Roy or alternately Red MacGregor, was a famous Scottish folk hero and outlaw of the early 18th century, who is sometimes known as the Scottish Robin Hood. ... Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM (June 8, 1916 – July 28, 2004) was one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. ...

Family

His first wife was actress Ellen Maud Pratt, stage name Judith Kyrle, the daughter of prosperous Devon farmer, John Dew Pratt of Buckland Monachorum. They were married in Littleham cum Exmouth, Devon on the first of September 1894. Their careers reached a high point at their joint debut at the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton in April 1900 with Roy billed as "The Dramatic Cock o' the North". They had three children, John Kyrle born in 1895, Robin Roy (father of Maj. Gen. Sir Roy Redgrave) born in 1897 and Nellie Maud born in 1898. “Devonshire” redirects here. ... Hoxton Square. ...

About this time Roy fell in love with a young actress named Esther Mary Cooke, (known on the stage as Ettie Carlisle), daughter of Victor Cooke, huntsman and riding master. Ellen discovered the affair and Ettie fled England for South Africa. Roy followed her to South Africa and persuaded her to return to England in 1903. They had one son, Victor (later known as Victor Carlisle).

Ar some point Roy left for Australia alone. In the History of Australian Theatre archives American actress Tittell Brune made her first appearance in Australia on 21 September 1904 at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, in the play Sunday, supported by Roy Redgrave. Roy toured with her on the JC Williamson circuit. According to Corin Redgrave, Ellen (Judith) pursued Roy to Australia, arriving in time to pay his unsettled hotel bills. Ellen was unable to persuade him to return him home with her to his family. Ellen remarried Frederick John Nettlefold, a respectable landed gentleman in 1907.

However Roy did return to England, appearing in repertory at the Grand Theatre, Brighton, where he met Daisy Bertha Mary Scudamore. They married at Glasgow Registry Office in 1907 while touring in the north and had one child the actor Michael Redgrave born on 20 March 1908, later to become the father of actors Vanessa, Lynn and Corin. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... For other places with the same name, see Brighton (disambiguation). ... The actress Daisy Scudamore was born in Portsmouth on 13 October 1884) and died in London on 5 October 1958 began in ingenue roles. ... Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood in The Lady Vanishes (1938) Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, KBE (March 20, 1908 — March 21, 1985) was an English actor and the son of the Australian silent film star Roy Redgrave and the actress Margaret Scudamore. ... Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an Academy Award winning English actress and member of the Redgrave family, one of the enduring theatrical dynasties. ... Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE (born 8 March 1943 in London) is an English actress born into the famous acting Redgrave family. ... Corin William Redgrave (born 16 July 1939) is an English actor. ...

Six months after Michael's birth, Redgrave left for Australia again, this time permanently. William Anderson, a Melbourne producer, had just built the King's Theatre, and needed actors. His name appears in June 1909, when he performed in the play The Bank of England. The following year, Anderson, known for his fondness of the lurid and sensational, had Roy collaborate with him on a play about the just ended Crippen case. Crippen was hanged in November 1910. The play was called By Wireless Telegraphy, but there is no record that a production came out of it. In 1911, Anderson was ruined financially by an expensive flop, and had to lease away his King's Theatre, and Roy turned his attention to the new and burgeoning film industry, under contract to Lincoln-Cass Films. He appeared in several silent movies, beginning in 1911 with The Christian. Later he played the villain in Moondyne (1913) as well as 6 shorts, played the lead in The Hayseeds (1917), and co-starred in Robbery Under Arms (1920). Back, back in England, the forsaken Daisy had changed her name to Margaret and married Captain James Anderson, a wealthy Tea Planter. Taken pre-1910. ... This article is about the comedy film. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...

Remaining in Australia

Roy remained in Australia until his death sometime in the 1920's, but exactly where he lived and when he died remained a mystery to his family in England until his grand-daughter Lynn visited Sydney with her husband John, and vowed to find him. Their search ended at the Sydney Opera House library, where, as she recounts in her play Shakespeare For My Father at page 48, they came up with his obituary, learning that he had died 25 March, 1922, and was buried at South Head Cemetery. There they learned that he had been put in an unmarked grave by somebody called Minnie, who paid 15 shillings. (The idea that it may have been the religious Minnie Tittell Brune feeling sorry for him is enticing). They found the spot, and arranged for a headstone, asked his son Michael what it should say, and he said to put, simply, Roy Redgrave, Actor. It was later discovered that Roy married an Irish widow named Mary Leresche in 1916. His marriage certificate makes reference to his previous marriage to Ellen (Judith) but not to his subsequent marriage to Daisy. Mary died in 1948. John Clark was born on All Saints Day, November 1, 1932, and is perhaps best known now as the ex-husband of Lynn Redgrave, who divorced him December 22, 2000, after 32 years of marriage. ... This play, the first in a series about her family, was written by Lynn Redgrave with help from her husband John Clark in 1992. ... Headstones in the Japanese Cemetry in Broome, Western Australia A cemetery in rural Spain A typical late 20th century headstone in the United States A headstone, tombstone or gravestone is a marker, normally carved from stone, placed over or next to the site of a burial. ...

Silent filmography

• Robbery Under Arms (1920) .... Dan Moran
• Our Friends the Hayseeds (1917) aka The Hayseeds (Australia) .... Dad Hayseed
• The Crisis (1913)
• Moondyne (1913) .... Isaac Bowman
• The Remittance Man (1913)
• The Reprieve (1913)
• The Road to Ruin (1913)
• The Sick Stockrider (1913)
• Transported (1913)
• The Christian (1911) .... John Storm

References

See also

• Lynn Redgrave
• John Clark (actor/director)

Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE (born 8 March 1943 in London) is an English actress born into the famous acting Redgrave family. ... John Clark was born on All Saints Day, November 1, 1932, and is perhaps best known now as the ex-husband of Lynn Redgrave, who divorced him December 22, 2000, after 32 years of marriage. ...

External links

• Roy Redgrave at the Internet Movie Database
• Fortunatus History (Skidmore)
• History of Australian Theatre, Minnie Tittell Brune
• William Anderson and Kings Theatre, Melbourne
• Lynn Redgrave at the Internet Movie Database