Richard Attenborough

**Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough**,  (; 29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was an English movie producer, director and actor.

## Early life and education

He was born in Cambridge, England. Attenborough left his home when he was 17 to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He earned his first West End theatre role, then went to national stardom in the play _Brighton Rock_.

## Career

Attenborough later became a producer and director. He produced and directed the movie _Gandhi_. Attenborough said that the movie _Gandhi_ was his dream project and waited years to make it. _Gandhi_ won 5 British Academy Awards and 8 American Oscars. In 1983 he won the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, a lifetime achievement award. In his movie roles, he is mostly known for his roles in _The Great Escape_ and in _Jurassic Park_. He was the older brother of naturalist David Attenborough.

After years of poor health, Attenborough died in London of heart failure on 24 August 2014, five days before his 91st birthday.

## His movies

|Year|Title|Credited as||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1942|_In Which We Serve_||||Young Stoker|
|1943|_Schweik's New Adventures_||||Railway worker|
|1944|_The Hundred Pound Window_||||Tommy Draper|
|1946|_Journey Together_||||David Wilton|
|_A Matter of Life and Death_||||An English pilot||
|_School for Secrets_||||Jack Arnold||
|1947|_Brighton Rock_||||Pinkie Brown|
|_The Man Within_||||Francis Andrews||
|_Dancing with Crime_||||Ted Peters||
|1948|_London Belongs to Me_||||Percy Boon|
|_The Guinea Pig_||||Jack Read||
|1949|_The Lost People_||||Jan|
|_Boys in Brown_||||Jackie Knowles||
|1950|_Morning Departure_||||Stoker Snipe|
|1951|_The Magic Box_||||Jack Carter|
|_Hell is Sold Out_||||Pierre Bonnet||
|1952|_Father's Doing Fine_||||Dougall|
|_Eight O’Clock Walk_||||Thomas "Tom" Leslie Manning||
|_Gift Horse_||||Dripper Daniels||
|1955|_The Ship That Died of Shame_||||George Hoskins|
|1956|_Private's Progress_||||Pvt. Percival Henry Cox|
|_The Baby and the Battleship_||||Knocker White||
|1957|_The Scamp_||||Stephen Leigh|
|_Brothers in Law_||||Henry Marshall||
|1958|_Dunkirk_||||John Holden|
|_The Man Upstairs_||||Peter Watson||
|_Sea of Sand_||||Brody||
|1959|_The League of Gentlemen_||||Lexy|
|_I'm All Right Jack_||||Sidney De Vere Cox||
|_Danger Within_||||Capt. "Bunter" Phillips||
|_Jet Storm_||||Ernest Tiller||
|_SOS Pacific_||||Whitney Mullen||
|1960|_The Angry Silence_||||Tom Curtis|
|1961|_Whistle Down the Wind_|||||
|1962|_Only Two Can Play_||||Probert|
|_The L-Shaped Room_||||||
|_Trial and Error_||||Herbert Fowle||
|1963|_The Great Escape_||||Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett|
|1964|_The Third Secret_||||Alfred Price-Gorham|
|_Séance on a Wet Afternoon_||||Billy Savage||
|_Guns at Batasi_||||Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale||
|1965|_The Flight of the Phoenix_||||Lew Moran|
|1966|_The Sand Pebbles||||Frenchy Burgoyne|
|1967|_Doctor Dolittle||||Albert Blossom|
|1968|_Only When I Larf_||||Silas|
|_The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom_||||Robert Blossom||
|1969|_The Magic Christian_||||Oxford coach|
|_Oh! What A Lovely War_||||||
|1970|_Loot_||||Inspector Truscott|
|_The Last Grenade_||||Gen. Charles Whiteley||
|_A Severed Head_||||Palmer Anderson||
|1971|_10 Rillington Place_||||John Reginald Christie|
|1972|_Cup Glory_||||Narrator|
|_Young Winston_||||||
|1974|_And Then There Were None_||||Judge Arthur Cannon|
|1975|_Rosebud_||||Edward Sloat|
|_Brannigan_||||Cmdr. Sir Charles Swann||
|_Conduct Unbecoming_||||Maj. Lionel E. Roach||
|1977|_Shatranj Ke Khiladi_||||General Outram|
|_A Bridge Too Far_||||Lunatic wearing glasses||
|1978|_Magic_|||||
|1979|_The Human Factor_||||Col. John Daintry|
|1982|_Gandhi_|||||
|1985|_A Chorus Line_|||||
|1987|_Cry Freedom_|||||
|1992|_Chaplin_|||||
|1993|_Jurassic Park_||||John Hammond|
|_Shadowlands_||||||
|1994|_Miracle on 34th Street_||||Kris Kringle|
|1996|''Hamlet||||English Ambassador to Denmark|
|_In Love and War_||||||
|1997|_The Lost World: Jurassic Park_||||John Hammond|
|1998|_Elizabeth_||||William Cecil|
|1999|_Grey Owl_|||||
|_Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat_||||Jacob||
|2002|_Puckoon_||||Narrator|
|2007|_Closing the Ring_|||||

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord Attenborough
- **image**: RichardAttenborough07TIFF.jpg
- **caption**: Attenborough at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
- **birth place**: Cambridge, England
- **death place**: London, England
- **nationality**: British
- **children**: 3, including Michael Attenborough, Michael and Charlotte Attenborough, Charlotte
- **father**: Frederick Attenborough
- **mother**: Mary Clegg
- **relatives**: David Attenborough (brother)
John Attenborough (brother)
- **occupation**: Actor, director, producer, entrepreneur, politician
- **office**: Member of the House of Lords
Lords Temporal, Lord Temporal
- **party**: Labour Party (UK), Labour Party
- **term start**: 30 July 1993
- **term end**: 24 August 2014

Life peerage
- **allegiance**: United Kingdom
- **branch**: Royal Air Force
- **serviceyears**: 1940–1945
- **unit**: Royal Air Force Film Production Unit
- **rank**: Sergeant
- **battles**: World War II