They became lovers, Michell set up house close to the Redgraves, and he became a surrogate " uncle " to Redgrave's children ( then aged 11, 9 and 5 ), who adored him.

Their search ended at the Sydney Opera House library, where, as she recounts in her play Shakespeare For My Father ( page 48 ), they came up with Redgrave's obituary, learning that he had died on 25 May 1922, and was buried at South Head Cemetery.

Redgrave's final theatre appearance came in May 1979 when he portrayed Jasper in Simon Gray's Close of Play, directed on the Lyttelton stage at the National Theatre by Harold Pinter.

Leamington is 49 and has a loveless, childless marriage with Ellen ( Rachel Kempson, Lynn Redgrave's real life mother ).

The event is probably most noted for Steve Redgrave's winning his fifth Olympic gold medal in as many games in the British men's coxless four.

Redgrave's daughters, Natasha Richardson ( 1963 – 2009 ) and Joely Richardson ( b. 1965 ) from her 1962 – 67 marriage to film director Tony Richardson, also built respected acting careers.

Highlights of Redgrave's early film career include her first starring role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ( for which she earned an Oscar nomination, a Cannes award, a Golden Globe nomination and a BAFTA Film Award nomination ); her portrayal of a cool London swinger in 1966's Blowup ; her spirited portrayal of dancer Isadora Duncan in Isadora ( for which she won a National Society of Film Critics ' Award for Best Actress, a second Prize for the Best Female Performance at the Cannes Film Festival, along with a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination in 1969 ); and various portrayals of historical figures – ranging from Andromache in The Trojan Women, to Mary, Queen of Scots in the film of the same name.

The original 1951 film version, starring Michael Redgrave as Crocker-Harris, won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, one for Rattigan's screenplay, the other for Redgrave's performance.

Roger Ebert awarded the film four stars out of four, describing Redgrave's performance as " superb ", and praising the work of Oldman and Molina: " The great performances in the movie are, of course, at its center.

The performance was originally slated to debut on 27 April, but was pushed due to the death of Redgrave's daughter Natasha.

Redgrave's performance in Julia garnered an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1978, Rabbi Meir Kahane published a book entitled Listen Vanessa, I am a Zionist, which was later renamed Listen World, Listen Jew, in direct response to Redgrave's comments at the Academy Awards.

Her final appearance on Broadway was as Miss Tina in the 1962 production of Michael Redgrave's adaptation of The Aspern Papers, from the Henry James novella.

Alongside John Dexter's Chichester staging of Saint Joan, Olivier's Uncle Vanya was first revived in Chichester in 1963 before transferring to the Old Vic as part of the nascent Royal National Theatre's inaugural season, winning rave reviews and Redgrave's second win as Best Actor in the 1963 Evening Standard Awards.

Critic Michael Billington recalled: " In Redgrave's Vanya you saw both a tremulous victim of a lifetime's emotional repression and the wasted potential of a Chekhovian might-have-been: as Redgrave and Olivier took their joint curtain call, linked hands held triumphantly aloft, we were not to know that this was to symbolise the end of their artistic amity.

A card was found among Redgrave's effects after his death.

Redgrave's funeral was held on the 8th of May at the First Congregational Church in Kent, Connecticut.

Redgrave's Century of Painters of the English School and John Burnet's Practical Essays on the Fine Arts may also be referred to for a critical estimate of his works.

* VAM. ac. uk, Richard Redgrave's ' The Governess ' discussed at the V & A Museum.

On 14 March 2008, Top Gear " resurrected " Ground Force in a Sport Relief special called Top Ground Gear Force where the presenters of Top Gear conducted a Ground Force style show on Sir Steve Redgrave's garden.

In 1940, she played the role of Jenny Sunley, the self-centred, frivolous wife of Redgrave's character in The Stars Look Down.

* Redgrave's Dictionary.

Verdi was born the son of Carlo Giuseppe Verdi and Luigia Uttini in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto, then in the Département Taro which was a part of the First French Empire after the annexation of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.

Count Carlo ( died after 1485 ), son of another Napoleone ( died October 3, 1480 ), was Papal Gonfaloniere.

It descends from Francesco ( died 1456 ), a son of Count Carlo of Bracciano.

The son of the man who bought the unfinished palace on the Grand Canal ( now Ca ' Rezzonico ) and finished its construction, Carlo the pontiff was notorious for his rampant nepotism.

After Paolo's death in 1886, he was succeeded by his son, Carlo I.

Carlo was succeeded upon his death in 1928 by his son King Paolo II.

In 1935, Carlo Alessi ( born 1916 ), son of Giovanni, was named chief designer.

* Gallery of rare pictures of Roberto Calvi supplied by his son Carlo Calvi

Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, Prince Français, Comte de Saint-Leu ( 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846 ), King of Holland ( 1806 – 10 ), was the fifth surviving child and the fourth surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino.

Jérôme was born Girolamo Buonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica as the eighth and last surviving child, fifth surviving son, of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino.

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Français, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano ( 21 May 1775 – 29 June 1840 ), born Luciano Buonaparte, was the third surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and his wife Letizia Ramolino.

Carlo Emanuele Ferdinando Maria di Savoia was born in Turin, the eldest son of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy, King of Sardinia and of his wife Infanta Maria Antonietta of Spain.

Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, formerly Crown Prince of Italy ( Vittorio Emanuele Alberto Carlo Teodoro Umberto Bonifacio Amedeo Damiano Bernardino Gennaro Maria di Savoia ; born 12 February 1937 ) is the only son of the Umberto II, the last King of Italy.

His son Carlo, one of the most respected condottieri of the time, enlarged the Riminese possessions and restored the port.

* Dr. Nicola Forte ( 1963 -), Neapolitan son of Prof. Ing. Carlo Forte, writer history about Kingdom of Two Sicily

The third king of Tavolara was Carlo I, who was succeeded upon his death in 1928 by his son King Paolo II.

The Duke of Andria, Fabrizio Carafa, a member of one of the most prestigious families of the Neapolitan nobility, honoured Maestro Broschi by taking a leading part in the baptism of his second son, who was baptised Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola ( in later life, Farinelli wrote: " Il Duca d ' Andria mi tenne al fonte "-" the Duke of Andria held me at the font ").

Separated from his wife and son by the effects of the war, Andrew died in Monte Carlo in 1944.

Carlo Giuliani, born in Rome, was the son of Giuliano Giuliani, a CGIL trade union activist, and Haidi Giuliani, who after his death would become a Senator for the Communist Refoundation Party.

Carlo Chiti designed an entirely new car for Ferrari: the Ferrari 246 Dino, named for Enzo Ferrari's recently deceased son.

The Gonzaga-Nevers later came to rule Mantua again, when Louis's son Charles ( Carlo ) inherited Mantua and Montferrat, triggering the War of the Mantuan Succession.

( The traditional father-to-son Beretta dynasty was interrupted when Ugo Gussalli Beretta assumed the firm's control ; uncles Carlo and Giuseppe Beretta were childless ; Carlo adopted Ugo, son of sister Giuseppina Gussalli, and named him a Beretta.