Actor
Richard Attenborough
Biography

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, Kt, CBE (29 August 1923 – 24 August 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, A ...

Known For
Acting
2017 -- And the Winner Isn't | Self (archive footage)
2017 -- Diana: The People's Princess | Self
2014 -- Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2011 -- Return to Jurassic Park | Self (archive footage)
2008 -- Strolling Into the Sunset | Self
2008 -- The Most Famous Man in the World! | Self
2008 -- Chaplin the Hero | Self
2007 -- The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles' | Self
2005 -- Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool | Self
2004 -- Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival | Self
2004 -- Within the Way Without | (voice)
2003 -- The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough | Self
2003 -- Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin | Self
2002 -- Forever Ealing | Self
2002 -- Puckoon | Writer/Director
2001 -- Beyond Jurassic Park | Self
2000 -- Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain | Self
2000 -- The Children Who Cheated the Nazis | Narrator
2000 -- The Railway Children | The Old Gentleman
2000 -- Light Keeps Me Company | Self
2000 -- Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self
2000 -- The Spirit of Grey Owl | Self
1999 -- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Jacob
1998 -- Elizabeth | Sir William Cecil
1998 -- Diana: Queen of Hearts | Self - Narrator
1998 -- Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century | Self (archive footage)
1997 -- The Lost World: Jurassic Park | John Hammond
1997 -- The Making of 'The Lost World' | Self
1996 -- Hamlet | English Ambassador
1996 -- E=MC² | The Visitor
1995 -- The Making of 'Jurassic Park' | Self / John Hammond
1994 -- Miracle on 34th Street | Kris Kringle
1994 -- In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid | Self
1994 -- A Century of Cinema | Self
1993 -- Audrey Hepburn: Remembered | Self
1993 -- Jurassic Park | Hammond
1990 -- Pictures of Europe | Self
1986 -- Mother Teresa | Narrator (voice)
1985 -- The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio | Self
1983 -- James Bond: The First 21 Years | Self
1983 -- Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi | Self
1979 -- The Human Factor | Colonel John Daintry
1977 -- The Chess Players | General Outram
1977 -- A Bridge Too Far | Lunatic with Glasses (uncredited)
1975 -- Conduct Unbecoming | Maggiore Lionel E. Roach
1975 -- Rosebud | Edward Sloat
1975 -- Brannigan | Cmdr. Charles Swann
1974 -- And Then There Were None | Judge Arthur Cannon
1971 -- 10 Rillington Place | John Christie
1971 -- A Severed Head | Palmer Anderson
1970 -- Loot | Inspector Truscott
1970 -- The Last Grenade | General Charles Whiteley
1970 -- Don't Make Me Laugh |
1969 -- The Magic Christian | Oxford Coach
1969 -- David Copperfield | Mr. Tungay
1968 -- The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom | Robert Blossom
1968 -- Only When I Larf | Silas
1967 -- Doctor Dolittle | Albert Blossom
1966 -- The Sand Pebbles | Frenchy Burgoyne
1965 -- The Flight of the Phoenix | Lew Moran
1964 -- Guns at Batasi | Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale
1964 -- Seance on a Wet Afternoon | Bill
1964 -- The Third Secret | Alfred Price-Gorham
1963 -- The Great Escape | Bartlett 'Big X'
1962 -- Trial and Error | Herbert Fowle
1962 -- All Night Long | Rod Hamilton
1962 -- Only Two Can Play | Gareth L. Probert
1960 -- The League of Gentlemen | Lexy
1960 -- The Angry Silence | Tom Curtis
1959 -- SOS Pacific | Whitey Mullen
1959 -- Jet Storm | Ernest Tilley
1959 -- I'm All Right Jack | Sidney De Vere Cox
1959 -- Danger Within | Capt. 'Bunter' Phillips
1958 -- Sea of Sand | Brody
1958 -- The Man Upstairs | Peter Watson
1958 -- Dunkirk | John Holden
1957 -- The Scamp | Stephen Leigh
1957 -- Brothers in Law | Henry Marshall
1956 -- The Baby and the Battleship | Knocker White
1956 -- Private's Progress | Pvt. Percival Henry Cox
1955 -- The Ship That Died of Shame | George Hoskins
1954 -- Eight O'Clock Walk | Thomas Leslie Manning
1953 -- Box for One | The Caller
1952 -- Father's Doing Fine | Dougall
1952 -- Gift Horse | Dripper Daniels
1952 -- The Magic Box | Jack Carter
1951 -- Hell Is Sold Out | Pierre Bonnet
1950 -- Morning Departure | Stoker Snipe
1949 -- Boys in Brown | Jackie Knowles
1949 -- The Lost People | Jan
1948 -- London Belongs to Me | Percy Boon
1948 -- The Guinea Pig | Jack Read
1948 -- Brighton Rock | Pinkie Brown
1947 -- Dancing with Crime | Ted Peters
1947 -- The Man Within | Francis Andrews
1946 -- School for Secrets | Jack Arnold
1946 -- A Matter of Life and Death | An English Pilot
1945 -- Journey Together | David Wilton
1945 -- The True Glory | Commentator
1944 -- The Hundred Pound Window | Tommy Draper
1943 -- Schweik's New Adventures | Railway worker
1942 -- In Which We Serve | Young Stoker
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