Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 29, 1923
Died
Aug 24, 2014
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Credits
132 titles
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 known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street (1994) and Jurassic Park. He was the older brother of David Attenborough, a naturalist and broadcaster, and John Attenborough, an executive at Alfa Romeo. He was married to actress Sheila Sim from 1945 until his death.
Known For
Filmography
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
Self
Diana: The People's Princess
Self
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
Return to Jurassic Park
Self (archive footage)
Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out
Strolling Into the Sunset
Self
Chaplin the Hero
Self
The Most Famous Man in the World!
Self
Closing the Ring
Director
British Film Forever
The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'
Self
The One Show
Self
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
Self
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
Self
Within the Way Without
(voice)
A Bridge Too Far: Richard Attenborough - A Director Remembers
Self - Interviewee
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
Self
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Self
Forever Ealing
Self
Puckoon
Writer/Director
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Magog
Beyond Jurassic Park
Self
The Children Who Cheated the Nazis
Narrator
The Railway Children
The Old Gentleman
Light Keeps Me Company
Self
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self
The Spirit of Grey Owl
Self
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Jacob
Grey Owl
Director
Elizabeth
Sir William Cecil
Diana: Queen of Hearts
Self - Narrator
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
Self (archive footage)
Parkinson
Self
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
John Hammond
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Self
Hamlet
English Ambassador
In Love and War
Director
E=MC²
The Visitor
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
Self / John Hammond
Miracle on 34th Street
Kris Kringle
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
Self
A Century of Cinema
Self
Shadowlands
Director
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Self
Jurassic Park
Hammond
Chaplin
Producer
Pictures of Europe
Self
This Morning
Self
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Self