Michael Redfern
Acting • Born 1943-03-30 – Died 2022-07-29
Biography
Michael Redfern was born on 30 March 1943 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England, UK. In a career that stretched back to the 1960s, he played a lot of policemen in film and TV, but was perhaps best known for playing the hisband of Lynda Bellingham, the patriarch of "the Oxo family" in the long running television ad campaign for Oxo. In real life he was married to Carol and he died on 29 July 2022 in Spain.
Filmography
38 credits
In the Secret State
Movie • 1985
Watcher

Fool's Gold: The Story Of The Brink's Mat Robbery
Movie • 1992
Det. Chief Supt. Brian Boyce

Porridge: The Desperate Hours
Movie • 1976
Tulip

The Secrets of Love: Three Rakish Tales
Movie • 1986
Weaver

In Deep Water
Movie • 1964

The Searchers
Movie • 1964

Kidnapped
Movie • 1964
Goldie

Trapped
Movie • 1964

Two Left Feet
Movie • 1963
Yob

The Offence
Movie • 1973
Policeman

The Jealous God
Movie • 2005
Tom Ardrahan

Big Zapper
Movie • 1973
Kono's Boy

Filthy Rich & Catflap
Movie • 1987
Policeman

Bottom Mindless Violence
Movie • 2004
Mr. Cooper (archive footage)

The Young Ones
TV • 1982
Policeman

The Young Ones
TV • 1982
Angry Policeman

Three of a Kind
TV • 1981
Self

Minder
TV • 1979
Driver

The Detectives
TV • 1993
Copper

The New Statesman
TV • 1985
Postman

Terry and June
TV • 1979
Bowler

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Mac

Bottom
TV • 1991
Mr. Cooper

Filthy Rich & Catflap
TV • 1987
Policeman

Filthy Rich & Catflap
TV • 1987
Prison Officer

Softly from Paris
TV • 1986
Le tisserand

Out
TV • 1978
Rhys Upcott

The Professionals
TV • 1977
Vic

Three Up, Two Down
TV • 1985
Barman

Never the Twain
TV • 1981
Fred Littlewood

The Nineteenth Hole
TV • 1989
Jack

Cold Warrior
TV • 1984
Usher

In Sickness and in Health
TV • 1985
Policeman

Man About the House
TV • 1973
Tom

Man About the House
TV • 1973
Removal Man

Man About the House
TV • 1973
Mike

The Young Detectives
TV • 1963
Goldie

Open All Hours
TV • 1976
Southerner