1. George Ellsworthy "Roy" Redgrave was an English stage and silent film actor.
11 Facts About Roy Redgrave
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The Roy Redgrave family originated in the Northamptonshire village of Crick.
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Roy Redgrave assumed the middle name "Elsworthy" from his mother, and his sister took the stage name Dolly Elsworthy.
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About this time Roy Redgrave fell in love with a young actress named Esther Mary Cooke, daughter of Victor Cooke, huntsman and riding master.
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Ettie then left Clayton Parrett and went with Roy Redgrave to Australia where she then bore him a son, Victor Roy Redgrave Parrett, born 25 July 1906 in Australia.
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At some point after initial Australian theatre work, Roy Redgrave left for England alone.
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However Roy Redgrave did return to Britain, appearing in repertory at the Grand Theatre, Brighton, where he met Daisy Bertha Mary Scudamore.
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Six months after Michael's birth, Roy Redgrave left Daisy and returned to Australia again, this time permanently.
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Roy Redgrave's name appears in June 1909, when he performed in the play The Bank of England.
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Anderson was ruined financially by an expensive flop, and had to lease away his King's Theatre, and Roy Redgrave turned his attention to the new and burgeoning film industry, under contract to Lincoln-Cass Films.
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Roy Redgrave remained in Australia until his death sometime in the 1920s, but exactly where he lived and when he died remained a mystery to his family in Britain until his granddaughter Lynn Roy Redgrave visited Sydney with her then husband John Clark, and vowed to find him.