Background
Rachel Kempson was born on May 28, 1910, in Dartmouth, Devon, United Kingdom. She was the daughter of Eric (1878-1948), the principal of Dartmouth Royal Naval College, and Beatrice Kempson (1884-1963).
1985
Bedford St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9ED, United Kingdom
From left to right, actors Joan Plowright, Laurence Olivier, Rachel Kempson, and Sir John Mills attend the memorial service for actor Sir Michael Redgrave at St Paul's Church in Covent Garden, London, 18th July 1985. Kempson is Redgrave's widow. Photo by Fox Photos
1985
Kew Meadows Path, London TW9 4EN, United Kingdom
British actresses Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010), Natasha Richardson (1963-2009), Rachel Kempson (1910-2003), Joely Richardson, Jemma Redgrave, and Vanessa Redgrave attend the funeral of Sir Michael Redgrave, held at Mortlake Crematorium in London, England. 26th March 1985. Photo by Harry Dempster
1945
The English actor Michael Scudamore Redgrave (1908-1985) with his wife, the actress Rachel Kempson. Photo by Gordon Anthony
1946
Married British actors, Michael Redgrave (1908 - 1985) and Rachel Kempson (1910 - 2003) with their three-year-old daughter Lynn, 31st October 1946. Photo by George Konig
1946
Actor Michael Redgrave and his wife Rachel Kempson watching their daughter Vanessa practice her dance lessons, with their son Corin behind them, 1946. Photo by George Konig
1959
Westminster, London SW1A 1AA, United Kingdom
After being Knighted by the Queen actor Michael Redgrave with his wife, actress Rachel Kempson his son Corin and daughter Lynn. Photo by Popperfoto
1967
Longford TW6, United Kingdom
English actor Michael Redgrave (1908 - 1985) with his wife, English actress Rachel Kempson (1910 - 2003) at Heathrow Airport, before leaving for Venice, London, United Kingdom, 12th June 1967. Photo by Dove
1971
Actors and spouses Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson reading a script together, photographed for Radio Times in connection with the BBC Radio 4 play 'With Great Pleasure,' February 15th, 1971. Photo by Don Smith
1979
Corin Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave with mother Rachel Kempson, 1979. Photo by Ben Martin
1985
Bedford St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9ED, United Kingdom
English actress Rachel Kempson (1910 - 2003) attends a memorial service for her late husband, actor Sir Michael Redgrave, at St Paul's Church in Covent Garden, London, 18th July 1985. Photo by Fox Photos
1985
Bedford St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9ED, United Kingdom
From left to right, actors Joan Plowright, Laurence Olivier, Rachel Kempson, and Sir John Mills attend the memorial service for actor Sir Michael Redgrave at St Paul's Church in Covent Garden, London, 18th July 1985. Kempson is Redgrave's widow. Photo by Fox Photos
1985
Kew Meadows Path, London TW9 4EN, United Kingdom
British actresses Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010), Natasha Richardson (1963-2009), Rachel Kempson (1910-2003), Joely Richardson, Jemma Redgrave, and Vanessa Redgrave attend the funeral of Sir Michael Redgrave, held at Mortlake Crematorium in London, England. 26th March 1985. Photo by Harry Dempster
1985
English actress Rachel Kempson (1910-2003) pictured during filming of the Anglia television drama series The Black Tower, an adaptation of the P D James Adam Dalgliesh novel, in England in 1985. Photo by Larry Ellis Collection
1990
From left to right, actress Lynn Redgrave, her mother Rachel Kempson (1910 - 2003) and sister Vanessa Redgrave, 12th December 1990. Lynn and Vanessa are starring with their niece Jemma Redgrave in a stage production of Chekhov's 'Three Sisters'. Photo by Dave Benett
62-64 Gower St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6ED, United Kingdom
Rachel Kempson attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
(In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identit...)
In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Captive-Heart/dp/B073PRFT74/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Captive+Heart&qid=1600067577&s=movies-tv&sr=1-1
1946
(Charles Boyer stars as a philanderer who’s accused of kil...)
Charles Boyer stars as a philanderer who’s accused of killing his wife in A Woman’s Vengeance, a gripping drama co-starring Ann Blyth and Jessica Tandy. When his invalid wife Emily (Rachel Kimpson) dies of a heart attack, it frees Henry Maurer (Boyer) to marry his young mistress Doris (Blyth). Confiding her suspicions that Henry murdered her patient, Emily’s nurse (Mildred Natick) is encouraged by a neighbor (Tandy) to tell the police. Suddenly Henry finds himself wrongly convicted and awaiting his fate while the family doctor (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) races against time to find the real killer and save his life.
https://www.amazon.com/Womans-Vengeance-Charles-Boyer/dp/B01LTHYN7S/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=A+Woman%27s+Vengeance&qid=1600067680&s=movies-tv&sr=1-1
1948
(A TV commentator refuses to believe that the death of his...)
A TV commentator refuses to believe that the death of his psychiatrist was a suicide. He obtains a list of the doctor's troubled patients from the man's 14-year-old daughter but soon learns that the girl herself is schizophrenic.
https://www.amazon.com/Third-Secret-Stephen-Boyd/dp/B000NO1XJK/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=The+Third+Secret&qid=1600069483&sr=8-2
1964
(After escaping from a mental institution, Patricia Stanle...)
After escaping from a mental institution, Patricia Stanley (Carole Gray) is rescued by scientist Martin Delambre (George Baker), the grandson of the doomed teleportation experimenter Andre Delambre. The two fall in love and marry, but Patricia quickly realizes her new husband's science experiments are as horrific as his family's past. As she investigates further, Patricia learns the unnerving secrets of the Delambre family and has to find a way to escape them before she becomes the next human-insect hybrid!
https://www.amazon.com/Curse-of-the-Fly/dp/B07T3JPM49/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Curse+of+the+Fly&qid=1600069413&sr=8-4
1965
(A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous att...)
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.
https://www.amazon.com/Georgy-Girl-James-Mason/dp/B00EI0KZ6M/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Georgy+Girl&qid=1600069643&sr=8-1
1966
(American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jord...)
American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard.
https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Prix-James-Garner/dp/B000MAK648/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Grand+Prix&qid=1600069853&sr=8-1
1966
(In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to t...)
In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to the British Light Brigade openly charging a Russian artillery position with tragic consequences.
https://www.amazon.com/Charge-Light-Brigade-Trevor-Howard/dp/B001ONWXRK/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Charge+of+the+Light+Brigade&qid=1600070095&sr=8-1
1968
(Plucked from poverty-stricken 1879 New York, kind and com...)
Plucked from poverty-stricken 1879 New York, kind and compassionate Cedric Errol (Michael Benz) is summoned by his hard-hearted grandfather (George Baker) to "live among the swells" in England as Lord Fauntleroy, the future Earl of Dorincourt. This engaging feature-length version of the lavish BBC miniseries captures all the heart of Francis Hodgson Burnett's classic story of redemption that has captivated generations of readers.
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Lord-Fauntleroy-Michael-Benz/dp/B000BVNS7A/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Little+Lord+Fauntleroy+1980&qid=1600072679&sr=8-2
1980
(In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantat...)
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Africa-Meryl-Streep/dp/B001VLKWUA/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Out+of+Africa&qid=1600073187&sr=8-1
1985
(In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beau...)
In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other. In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished.
https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Heaven-Derek-Lint/dp/B009G4NA4Y/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Stealing+Heaven&qid=1600073653&sr=8-1
1988
(This adaptation of Anton Chekov's classic play stars Davi...)
This adaptation of Anton Chekov's classic play stars David Warner, Ian Holm, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. A retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left by his deceased first wife, in the process plunging the play's characters into a precarious state, where, in Beckett's words, 'the boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being.'
https://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Vanya-David-Warner/dp/B075DJH25D/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Uncle+Vanya&qid=1600074078&sr=8-2
1991
(L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in...)
L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
https://www.amazon.com/Deja-Love-Story-Vanessa-Redgrave/dp/B073SJ5BY6/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=D%C3%A9j%C3%A0+Vu&qid=1600074878&sr=8-2
1997
Rachel Kempson was born on May 28, 1910, in Dartmouth, Devon, United Kingdom. She was the daughter of Eric (1878-1948), the principal of Dartmouth Royal Naval College, and Beatrice Kempson (1884-1963).
Rachel Kempson attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Rachel Kempson's first stage appearance was as Hera, in Much Ado About Nothing, in the 1933 Stratford-upon-Avon season, followed by Ophelia and Juliet. Also in 1933, Kempson made her first London appearance, as Bianca, in The Lady From Alfaqueque. In 1936 she appeared with the Old Vic Company, and later joined John Gielgud's season at the Queen's Theatre. In the 1950s, she appeared regularly at Stratford (she played Regan to her husband's Lear in the 1953 season) and continued to play a variety of roles in the classical repertoire throughout her life. Like many of her generation, she also had the courage and flexibility to reinvent herself with the rise of the new wave, joining George Devine's English Stage Company in 1956, the same year that John Osborne's Look Back In Anger made its appearance.
In the 1960s and 1970s, she continued to work steadily, appearing in Julian Mitchell's highly successful West End adaptation of Ivy Compton-Burnett's A Family And A Fortune (1975), Alan Bennett's The Old Country (1977), with Sir Alec Guinness, and a number of popular British films of the period - among them Tom Jones (1963), Georgy Girl (1966), which starred her daughter Lynn, The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1968), with her daughter Vanessa and son Corin, a movie made by her then son-in-law Tony Richardson, and The Virgin Soldiers (1969).
She appeared as Julia Shuttlewaite in a glittering West End revival of TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party in 1986; two years later, she was Maria Vasilyevna in Uncle Vanya (with Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi, and Jonathan Pryce); and the following year she was Volumnia in Corin Redgrave's production of Coriolanus at the Young Vic.
Among many television series and plays, she appeared in Elizabeth R, Jewel In The Crown, Love For Lydia, The Bell, The Black Tower, Uncle Vanya, and Lorna Doona, and late in the 1980s won a Bafta best actress nomination (for her television performance in Kate, The Good Neighbor.) On the radio, she was a memorable Hester in The Forsyte Saga.
Though her acting career inevitably slowed, Kempson continued to appear, often alongside Corin, on a number of occasions at poetry recitals.
(Plucked from poverty-stricken 1879 New York, kind and com...)
1980(After escaping from a mental institution, Patricia Stanle...)
1965(A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous att...)
1966(In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beau...)
1988(Charles Boyer stars as a philanderer who’s accused of kil...)
1948(In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to t...)
1968(American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jord...)
1966(In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantat...)
1985(In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identit...)
1946(This adaptation of Anton Chekov's classic play stars Davi...)
1991(A TV commentator refuses to believe that the death of his...)
1964(L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in...)
1997Rachel Kempson was not especially active politically.
When Rachel Kempson had seen Dame Sybil Thorndike playing the role of Katherine of Aragon, in Shakespeare's Henry VIII, she decided to become an actress at the theatre.
Rachel Kempson was a keen and creative gardener.
In 1935 Rachel Kempson married actor Michael Redgrave. They had three children: Vanessa, Corin, and Lynn Redgrave. In 1985 her husband died.