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.Actor, director Richard Attenborough dies at 90

His movies
Year Title Credited asProducerDirectorActor Role 1942  In Which We Serve    Young Stoker 1943 Schweik's New Adventures    Railway worker 1944 The Hundred Pound Window    Tommy Draper1946  Journey Together    David Wilton A Matter of Life and Death    An English pilot School for Secrets    Jack Arnold1947  Brighton Rock    Pinkie Brown The Man Within    Francis AndrewsDancing with Crime    Ted Peters1948  London Belongs to Me    Percy Boon The Guinea Pig    Jack Read1949 The Lost People    Jan Boys in Brown    Jackie Knowles 1950  Morning Departure    Stoker Snipe1951  The Magic Box    Jack Carter Hell is Sold Out    Pierre Bonnet1952  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 Hoskins1956  Private's Progress    Pvt. Percival Henry Cox The Baby and the Battleship    Knocker White1957  The Scamp    Stephen Leigh Brothers in Law    Henry Marshall1958  Dunkirk    John Holden The Man Upstairs    Peter Watson Sea of Sand    Brody1959  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   ProbertThe L-Shaped Room    Trial and Error    Herbert Fowle 1963  The Great Escape    Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett1964  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 || || || ||align=left|Frenchy Burgoyne
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| 1967 ||align=left| Doctor Dolittle    Albert Blossom1968  Only When I Larf    Silas The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom    Robert Blossom1969  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 Christie1972  Cup Glory    Narrator Young Winston     1974  And Then There Were None    Judge Arthur Cannon1975  Rosebud    Edward Sloat Brannigan    Cmdr. Sir Charles Swann Conduct Unbecoming    Maj. Lionel E. Roach1977  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 Kringle1996  Hamlet || || || ||align=left|English Ambassador to Denmark
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| align=left| In Love and War || || || ||
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| 1997 ||align=left| The Lost World: Jurassic Park || || || ||align=left|John Hammond
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| 1998 ||align=left| Elizabeth || || || ||align=left|William Cecil
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| rowspan=2|1999 ||align=left| Grey Owl || || || ||
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| align=left| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat || || ||  ||align=left|Jacob
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| 2002 ||align=left| Puckoon || || || ||align=left|Narrator
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| 2007 ||align=left| Closing the Ring''    

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