British Stage and Screen Actor Corin Redgrave Dies at Age 70

Tony-nominated actor Corin Redgrave, a member of the prominent British acting family, died at St. George’s Hospital in London on April 6, according to the BBC. He was 70 and had previously been treated for prostate cancer and a heart ailment.

The middle sibling of actresses Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave and uncle to the late Natasha Richardson and her actress sister Joely, Redgrave is best known for his role as Andie MacDowell’s husband Hamish in the 1994 film comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. He was nominated for a 1999 Best Actor Tony Award for playing a brutal prison warden in the Tennessee Williams play Not About Nightingales, a role that earned him the Laurence Olivier Award in London the previous year. Off-Broadway, he played Benedict Arnold in the 2002 production of Richard Nelson’s The General from America.

Born in London on July 16, 1939 to Sir Michael Redgrave and his actress wife Rachel Kempson, Corin Redgrave began acting while attending Cambridge University. He made his professional debut in 1961 as Lysander in a Royal Court production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by his brother-in-law Tony Richardson. Notable London stage credits include Noel Coward’s A Song at Twilight, Martin Sherman’s Some Sunny Day and Chips With Everything, a play in which he later made his Broadway debut in 1963.

In addition to his acting career, Redgrave was a political activist supporting Britain’s Socialist Labor League, the Workers’ Revolutionary Party, and a 2004 endeavor to impeach then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The actor is survived by his children, Luke, Harvey, Arden and Jemma.