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Richard Attenborough
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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 Esc…
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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.
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Richard Attenborough's Filmography
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Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
as Self
Diana: The People's Princess
as Self
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
Return to Jurassic Park
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out
No Poster
Chaplin the Hero
as Self
No Poster
Strolling Into the Sunset
as Self
No Poster
The Most Famous Man in the World!
as Self
The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'
as Self
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
as Self
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
as Self
No Poster
Within the Way Without
as (voice)
A Bridge Too Far: Richard Attenborough - A Director Remembers
as Self - Interviewee
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
as Self
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as Self
Forever Ealing
as Self
Puckoon
as Writer/Director
Beyond Jurassic Park
as Self
The Children Who Cheated the Nazis
as Narrator
The Railway Children
as The Old Gentleman
Light Keeps Me Company
as Self
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self
The Spirit of Grey Owl
as Self
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
as Jacob
Elizabeth
as Sir William Cecil
Diana: Queen of Hearts
as Self - Narrator
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
as Self (archive footage)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as John Hammond
The Making of 'The Lost World'
as Self
Hamlet
as English Ambassador
E=MC²
as The Visitor
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
as Self / John Hammond
Miracle on 34th Street
as Kris Kringle
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
as Self
A Century of Cinema
as Self
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
as Self
Jurassic Park
as Hammond
Pictures of Europe
as Self
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
as Self
Mother Teresa
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
as Self
James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Self
No Poster
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
as Self
The Human Factor
as Colonel John Daintry
The Chess Players
as General Outram
A Bridge Too Far
as Lunatic with Glasses (uncredited)
Conduct Unbecoming
as Major Lionel E. Roach
Rosebud
as Edward Sloat
Brannigan
as Cmdr. Charles Swann
And Then There Were None
as Judge Arthur Cannon
10 Rillington Place
as John Christie
A Severed Head
as Palmer Anderson
Loot
as Inspector Truscott
The Last Grenade
as General Charles Whiteley
No Poster
Don't Make Me Laugh
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
as Self
The Magic Christian
as Oxford Coach
David Copperfield
as Mr. Tungay
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
as Robert Blossom
Only When I Larf
as Silas
Doctor Dolittle
as Albert Blossom
The Sand Pebbles
as Frenchy Burgoyne
The Flight of the Phoenix
as Lew Moran
Guns at Batasi
as Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
as Bill
The Third Secret
as Alfred Price-Gorham
The Great Escape
as Bartlett 'Big X'
The Dock Brief
as Herbert Fowle
All Night Long
as Rod Hamilton
Only Two Can Play
as Gareth L. Probert
The League of Gentlemen
as Lexy
The Angry Silence
as Tom Curtis
SOS Pacific
as Whitey Mullen
Jet Storm
as Ernest Tilley
I'm All Right Jack
as Sidney De Vere Cox
Danger Within
as Capt. 'Bunter' Phillips
Sea of Sand
as Brody
The Man Upstairs
as Peter Watson
Dunkirk
as John Holden
The Scamp
as Stephen Leigh
Brothers in Law
as Henry Marshall
The Baby and the Battleship
as Knocker White
Private's Progress
as Pvt. Percival Henry Cox
The Ship That Died of Shame
as George Hoskins
Eight O'Clock Walk
as Thomas Leslie Manning
No Poster
Box for One
as The Caller
Father's Doing Fine
as Dougall
Gift Horse
as Dripper Daniels
The Magic Box
as Jack Carter
Hell Is Sold Out
as Pierre Bonnet
Morning Departure
as Stoker Snipe
Boys in Brown
as Jackie Knowles
The Lost People
as Jan
London Belongs to Me
as Percy Boon
The Guinea Pig
as Jack Read
Brighton Rock
as Pinkie Brown
Dancing with Crime
as Ted Peters
The Man Within
as Francis Andrews
School for Secrets
as Jack Arnold
A Matter of Life and Death
as An English Pilot
Journey Together
as David Wilton
The True Glory
as Commentator
No Poster
The Hundred Pound Window
as Tommy Draper
Svejk Wrecks Germany
as Railway worker
In Which We Serve
as Young Stoker