Richard Attenborough

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-08-29 (91 years old)

Deathday

2014-08-24

Place of Birth

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Richard Attenborough

Biography

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, Kt, CBE (August 29, 1923 – August 24, 2014) was an English actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Attenborough joined the Royal Air Force during World War II and served in the film unit. He went on several bombing raids over Europe and filmed action from the rear gunner's position. As a film director and producer, Attenborough won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1983. He also won four BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. As an actor, he is perhaps best k...

Acting

1994

Miracle on 34th Street

as Kris Kringle

1996

Hamlet

as English Ambassador

1975

Rosebud

as Edward Sloat

1998

Elizabeth

as Sir William Cecil

1974

And Then There Were None

as Judge Arthur Cannon

1958

Sea of Sand

as Brody

1966

The Sand Pebbles

as Frenchy Burgoyne

1963

The Great Escape

as Bartlett 'Big X'

1969

The Magic Christian

as Oxford Coach

2000

The Railway Children

as The Old Gentleman

1971

10 Rillington Place

as John Christie

1948

Brighton Rock

as Pinkie Brown

1975

Brannigan

as Cmdr. Charles Swann

1959

I'm All Right Jack

as Sidney De Vere Cox

1946

A Matter of Life and Death

as An English Pilot

1959

Jet Storm

as Ernest Tilley

1962

Trial and Error

as Herbert Fowle

1962

All Night Long

as Rod Hamilton

1971

A Severed Head

as Palmer Anderson

1967

Doctor Dolittle

as Albert Blossom

1964

Guns at Batasi

as Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale

1950

Morning Departure

as Stoker Snipe

1979

The Human Factor

as Colonel John Daintry

1958

Dunkirk

as John Holden

1953

Box for One

as The Caller

1968

1977

The Chess Players

as General Outram

1952

The Magic Box

as Jack Carter

1952

Gift Horse

as Dripper Daniels

1959

SOS Pacific

as Whitey Mullen

1946

School for Secrets

as Jack Arnold

1962

Only Two Can Play

as Gareth L. Probert

1960

The Angry Silence

as Tom Curtis

1956

Private's Progress

as Pvt. Percival Henry Cox

1947

Dancing with Crime

as Ted Peters

1995

The Making of 'Jurassic Park'

as Self / John Hammond

1955

1970

The Last Grenade

as General Charles Whiteley

1956

1975

Conduct Unbecoming

as Maggiore Lionel E. Roach

1954

Eight O'Clock Walk

as Thomas Leslie Manning

1964

The Third Secret

as Alfred Price-Gorham

1958

The Man Upstairs

as Peter Watson

1969

David Copperfield

as Mr. Tungay

1948

1945

Journey Together

as David Wilton

1952

1949

Boys in Brown

as Jackie Knowles

2002

1957

Brothers in Law

as Henry Marshall

1970

Loot

as Inspector Truscott

1996

E=MC²

as The Visitor

1957

The Scamp

as Stephen Leigh

1948

The Guinea Pig

as Jack Read

1949

1951

Hell Is Sold Out

as Pierre Bonnet

1942

In Which We Serve

as Young Stoker

2008

1968

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

as Robert Blossom

1986

Mother Teresa

as Narrator (voice)

1998

Diana: Queen of Hearts

as Self - Narrator

1945

The True Glory

as Commentator

1993

Jurassic Park

as Hammond

1947

The Man Within

as Francis Andrews

1998

1959

Danger Within

as Capt. 'Bunter' Phillips

1944

2002

Puckoon

as Writer/Director

2017

And the Winner Isn't

as Self (archive footage)

1977

A Bridge Too Far

as Lunatic with Glasses (uncredited)

1943

Schweik's New Adventures

as Railway worker

2011

Return to Jurassic Park

as Self (archive footage)

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1982

Gandhi

as Director

1982

Gandhi

as Producer

1985

A Chorus Line

as Director

1992

Chaplin

as Director

1992

Chaplin

as Producer

1993

Shadowlands

as Director

1993

Shadowlands

as Producer

1969

1977

A Bridge Too Far

as Director

1987

Cry Freedom

as Director

1987

Cry Freedom

as Producer

1996

In Love and War

as Director

1978

Magic

as Director

2007

Closing the Ring

as Director

1999

Grey Owl

as Director

1972

Young Winston

as Director

1961

1999

Grey Owl

as Producer

1969

1962

1960

1996

In Love and War

as Producer

2007

Closing the Ring

as Producer

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