From 1991 onwards, Redgrave, and the crews in which he rowed, became renowned for their consistent dominance.

In 2000, Redgrave won his fifth consecutive Olympic Gold Medal, retired from the sport, and became the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Redgrave became well known in the United States after appearing in the television series House Calls, for which she received an Emmy nomination.

The divorce proceedings were acrimonious and became front page news, with Clark alleging that Redgrave had also been unfaithful.

The name became popular in modern times following the success of actress Vanessa Redgrave.

Christie herself became the subject of a mystery film in 1979's Agatha starring Vanessa Redgrave.

The Drama company also nurtured the careers of stars – Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Sybil Thorndike, Edith Evans, Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, Maurice Evans, Ralph Richardson-and became famous for stylish productions under the artistic directorship of Tyrone Guthrie during the 1930s.

Image: 1st_bridge_on_Waveney, _Redgrave_Fen. jpg | First crossing, at source, Redgrave & S. Lopham Fen

The First production in the new theatre at Holybourne was " Cat on the Fiddle " by John Dole and the first night was Thursday 6 May 1971 when Sir Michael Redgrave opened the theatre.

At the medal ceremony after his win at the 2000 Summer Olympics Redgrave was presented with a gold Olympic pin by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch in recognition of his winning gold at 5 consecutive Olympic Games.

* 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress

* 1939 – Corin Redgrave, English actor and activist ( d. 2010 )

* 1943 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress ( d. 2010 )

** Michael Redgrave, English actor ( d. 1985 )

* March 8 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress ( d. 2010 )

** Vanessa Redgrave, English actress

** Sir Steve Redgrave, English rower

Vanessa Redgrave, CBE ( born 30 January 1937 ) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.

Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, CBE ( 20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985 ) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager and author.

Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE ( 8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010 ) was an English actress.

On 2 April 1967, Redgrave married English actor John Clark Together they had three children, airline pilot Benjamin Clark ( born 1968 ), singer-songwriter Pema ( originally Kelly ) Clark ( born 1970 ), and author and photographer Annabel Lucy Clark ( born 1981 ).

Rachel, Lady Redgrave ( 28 May 1910 – 24 May 2003 ), known primarily by her birth name Rachel Kempson, was an English actress.

* Natasha Richardson, Tony Award-winning English actress and member of the Redgrave family

* Vanessa Redgrave, English actress and political activist

* Richard Redgrave ( 1804 – 1888 ), English artist

George Ellsworthy " Roy " Redgrave ( 26 April 1873 – 25 May 1922 ) was an English stage and silent film actor.

* Samuel Redgrave, A Dictionary of Artists of the English School, 1878

Corin William Redgrave ( 16 July 19396 April 2010 ) was an English actor and political activist.

* Pollard, A. W. and Redgrave, G. R., A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475 – 1640, 3 vols ( London: Bibliographical Society, 1976 – 1991 )

The Redgrave family is an English acting dynasty, spanning four generations.

* Born: Natasha Richardson, English actress, daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and Tony Richardson ( died 2009 )

Kurtz recruits a radical left-wing English actress, Charlie ( allegedly based on Vanessa Redgrave, who was then noted for her pro-Palestinian political sympathies ), and uses her in an elaborate scheme to discover Khalil's whereabouts.

Richard Redgrave RA ( 30 April 1804-14 December 1888 ) was an English artist.

* 1953, Michael Redgrave played Antony and Peggy Ashcroft played Cleopatra at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.

* Sir Nicholas Hickman Ponsonby Bacon, 14th Baronet ( Redgrave ), 15th Baronet ( Mildenhall ) ( born 1953 )

Other noteworthy European films which contained nudity include Era Lui, Si Si ( 1952, with Sophia Loren ), Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika ( 1953 ), Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur ( 1956, with Isabelle Corey, then aged 16 ), François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player ( 1960 ), Brigitte Bardot's casual nude scenes in Contempt ( 1963 ) by Jean-Luc Godard, the French film The Game Is Over ( 1966, with Jane Fonda ), Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour ( 1967, with Catherine Deneuve ), and Isadora ( 1968, with Vanessa Redgrave ).

Notable later 20th century productions include the Hilton Edwards ' 1959 production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, starring Milo O ' Shea and Anna Manahan ; John Barton's 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Peter O ' Toole and Peggy Ashcroft, and which included both the complete Induction and the epilogue from A Shrew ; Maurice Daniels's 1961 RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Derek Godfrey and Vanessa Redgrave ; Trevor Nunn's 1969 RSC production also at the Aldwych, starring Michael Williams and Janet Suzman ; Clifford Williams ' 1973 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Alan Bates and Susan Fleetwood ; William Ball's 1976 commedia dell ' arte-style production at the American Conservatory Theater ; Wilford Leach's 1978 production at the Delacorte Theater, starring Raúl Juliá and Meryl Streep ; Barry Kyle's 1982 RSC production at the Barbican Centre, starring Alun Armstrong and Sinéad Cusack ; Toby Robertson's 1986 production at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, starring Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave ; Jonathan Miller's 1987 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Brian Cox and Fiona Shaw ; A. J.

In 2007, Redgrave played Joan Didion in her Broadway stage adaptation of her 2005 book, The Year of Magical Thinking, which played 144 regular performances in a 24-week limited engagement at the Booth Theatre.

* 1986, Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave in the title roles at Clwyd Theatr Cymru and Haymarket Theatre.

On October 5, 2000, the National Theatre in London mounted a revival, directed by Jeremy Sams and starring Patricia Hodge, Peter Egan and Aden Gillett, that ran for two years, transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End on May 14, 2001 with Lynn Redgrave and Stephen Mangan replacing Hodge and Egan, respectively.

* Lafont in six matinees of Parisienne, a comedy by Henry Becque, translated by Ashley Dukes, ( Redgrave also directed and managed ) co-starring Sonia Dresdel, St James's Theatre June 1943

* Colonel Stjerbinsky in Jacobowsky and the Colonel, a comedy by Franz Werfel, adapted by S N Behrman, ( Redgrave also directed ) with Rachel Kempson as Marianne, Piccadilly Theatre, June 1945

Redgrave joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company at Stratford-upon-Avon and for the 1951 season appeared as Prospero in The Tempest as well as playing Richard II, Hotspur and Chorus in the Cycle of Histories, for which he also directed Henry IV Part Two.

* Jack Dean in The Tiger and the Horse by Robert Bolt ( which Redgrave also co-presented, directed by Frith Banbury ), Queen's Theatre August 1960

Michael Redgrave in costume for lead role in Uncle Vanya, backstage at Chichester Festival Theatre, 1962.

Redgrave played ( and co-presented ) Lancelot Dodd MA in Arthur Watkyn's Out of Bounds at Wyndham's Theatre in November 1962, following it at the Old Vic with his portrayal of Claudius opposite the Hamlet of Peter O ' Toole in 22 October 1963.

In May and June 1965 Redgrave directed the opening festival of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, including directing and playing Rakitin in A Month in the Country ( co-starring with Ingrid Bergman as Natalya Petrovna ), and Samson in Samson Agonistes ( co-starring with Rachel Kempson as Chorus ).

The Redgrave Theatre in Farnham, Surrey, 1974 – 1998, was named in his honour.

The Castle Theatre in Castle Street was replaced by the Redgrave Theatre in 1974 which, itself, closed down in 1998 due to the decline of repertory theatre in England.

The Farnham Theatre Association campaigns for a theatre in Farnham, either in the form of a restored Redgrave Theatre or a new build.