Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough

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: Acting

Born: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, 1923-08-29

Died: 2014-08-24

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1942	In Which We Serve	Young Stoker	68
2	1943	Schweik's New Adventures	Railway worker	80
3	1944	The Hundred Pound Window	Tommy Draper	0
4	1945	The True Glory	Commentator	63
5	1945	Journey Together	David Wilton	64
6	1946	A Matter of Life and Death	An English Pilot	78
7	1946	School for Secrets	Jack Arnold	70
8	1947	The Man Within	Francis Andrews	57
9	1947	Dancing with Crime	Ted Peters	61
10	1948	Brighton Rock	Pinkie Brown	69
11	1948	The Guinea Pig	Jack Read	72
12	1948	London Belongs to Me	Percy Boon	70
13	1949	The Lost People	Jan	57
14	1949	Boys in Brown	Jackie Knowles	65
15	1950	Morning Departure	Stoker Snipe	66
16	1951	Hell Is Sold Out	Pierre Bonnet	57
17	1952	The Magic Box	Jack Carter	63
18	1952	Gift Horse	Dripper Daniels	66
19	1952	Father's Doing Fine	Dougall	63
20	1953	Box for One	The Caller	0
21	1954	Eight O'Clock Walk	Thomas Leslie Manning	67
22	1955	The Ship That Died of Shame	George Hoskins	69
23	1956	Private's Progress	Pvt. Percival Henry Cox	66
24	1956	The Baby and the Battleship	Knocker White	60
25	1957	Brothers in Law	Henry Marshall	71
26	1957	The Scamp	Stephen Leigh	63
27	1958	Dunkirk	John Holden	68
28	1958	The Man Upstairs	Peter Watson	61
29	1958	Sea of Sand	Brody	65
30	1959	Danger Within	Capt. 'Bunter' Phillips	62
31	1959	I'm All Right Jack	Sidney De Vere Cox	67
32	1959	Jet Storm	Ernest Tilley	69
33	1959	SOS Pacific	Whitey Mullen	69
34	1960	The Angry Silence	Tom Curtis	71
35	1960	The League of Gentlemen	Lexy	71
36	1962	Only Two Can Play	Gareth L. Probert	59
37	1962	All Night Long	Rod Hamilton	67
38	1962	Trial and Error	Herbert Fowle	65
39	1963	The Great Escape	Bartlett 'Big X'	79
40	1964	The Third Secret	Alfred Price-Gorham	61
41	1964	Seance on a Wet Afternoon	Bill	72
42	1964	Guns at Batasi	Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale	71
43	1965	The Flight of the Phoenix	Lew Moran	72
44	1966	The Sand Pebbles	Frenchy Burgoyne	72
45	1967	Doctor Dolittle	Albert Blossom	62
46	1968	Only When I Larf	Silas	64
47	1968	The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom	Robert Blossom	67
48	1969	David Copperfield	Mr. Tungay	54
49	1969	The Magic Christian	Oxford Coach	57
50	1969	Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?		0
51	1970	Don't Make Me Laugh		0
52	1970	The Last Grenade	General Charles Whiteley	52
53	1970	Loot	Inspector Truscott	58
54	1971	A Severed Head	Palmer Anderson	53
55	1971	10 Rillington Place	John Christie	73
56	1974	And Then There Were None	Judge Arthur Cannon	57
57	1975	Brannigan	Cmdr. Charles Swann	60
58	1975	Rosebud	Edward Sloat	49
59	1975	Conduct Unbecoming	Maggiore Lionel E. Roach	59
60	1977	A Bridge Too Far	Lunatic with Glasses (uncredited)	72
61	1977	The Chess Players	General Outram	71
62	1979	The Human Factor	Colonel John Daintry	59
63	1983	Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi	Self	0
64	1983	James Bond: The First 21 Years	Self	50
65	1985	The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio	Self	60
66	1986	Mother Teresa	Narrator (voice)	0
67	1990	Pictures of Europe	Self	0
68	1993	Jurassic Park	Hammond	80
69	1993	Audrey Hepburn: Remembered	Self	70
70	1994	A Century of Cinema	Self	80
71	1994	In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid	Self	0
72	1994	Miracle on 34th Street	Kris Kringle	68
73	1995	The Making of 'Jurassic Park'	Self / John Hammond	72
74	1996	E=MC²	The Visitor	0
75	1996	Hamlet	English Ambassador	73
76	1997	The Making of 'The Lost World'	Self	68
77	1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	John Hammond	66
78	1998	Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century	Self (archive footage)	77
79	1998	Diana: Queen of Hearts	Self - Narrator	55
80	1998	Elizabeth	Sir William Cecil	72
81	1999	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat	Jacob	62
82	2000	The Spirit of Grey Owl	Self	0
83	2000	Sir John Mills' Moving Memories	Self	0
84	2000	Light Keeps Me Company	Self	78
85	2000	The Railway Children	The Old Gentleman	66
86	2000	The Children Who Cheated the Nazis	Narrator	50
87	2001	Beyond Jurassic Park	Self	68
88	2002	Puckoon	Writer/Director	62
89	2002	Forever Ealing	Self	68
90	2003	Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin	Self	69
91	2003	The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough	Self	0
92	2004	Within the Way Without	(voice)	20
93	2004	Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival	Self	0
94	2005	Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool	Self	60
95	2007	The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'	Self	0
96	2008	Strolling Into the Sunset	Self	0
97	2008	Chaplin the Hero	Self	0
98	2008	The Most Famous Man in the World!	Self	0
99	2011	Return to Jurassic Park	Self (archive footage)	66
100	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
101	2014	Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film	Self	48
102	2017	Diana: The People's Princess	Self	0
103	2017	And the Winner Isn't	Self (archive footage)	57
104	2025	Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee/Presenter	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
3	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
4	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
5	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
6	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
7	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
8	1988	This Morning	Self	52
9	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
10	2001	Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story	Magog	68
11	2006	The One Show	Self	45
12	2013	Talking Pictures	Self (archive footage)	50