Richard Attenborough

1923-

Biography: life and films

Richard Attenborough is an English actor, film director and producer. He was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England on 29th August 1923.

His best films as an actor include John Boulting's crime-thriller Brighton Rock (1947), I'm All Right Jack (1959), John Sturges's The Great Escape (1963), Richard Fleischer's 10 Rillington Place (1971) and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996), and whose best work as a film director include A Bridge Too Far (1977), Gandhi (1982) and Shadowlands (1993).

Richard Attenborough has so far appeared in 65 films and directed 12 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: John Boulting (5 films), Basil Dearden (4), Guy Green (3), Steven Spielberg (2), Sidney Gilliat (2), Roy Boulting (2), Richard Fleischer (2), Otto Preminger (2), Michael Anderson (2), Joseph McGrath (2) and Don Chaffey (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (49 films), War (16), comedy (13), Thriller (12), Biography (11), romance (6), history (5), comedy-drama (5), crime-thriller (4), Fantasy (3) and Documentary (2).

Our average rating for Richard Attenborough over all films is: 3.3

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director

Schweik's New Adventures (1943) [a]

The Hundred Pound Window (1944) [a]

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) [a]

Journey Together (1946) [a]

School for Secrets (1946) [a]

Brighton Rock (1947) [a]

Dancing with Crime (1947) [a]

The Man Within (1947) [a]

London Belongs to Me (1948) [a]

The Guinea Pig (1948) [a]

Boys in Brown (1949) [a]

The Lost People (1949) [a]

Morning Departure (1950) [a]

Hell Is Sold Out (1951) [a]

The Magic Box (1951) [a]

Father's Doing Fine (1952) [a]

Gift Horse (1952) [a]

Eight O'Clock Walk (1954) [a]

The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) [a]

Private's Progress (1956) [a]

The Baby and the Battleship (1956) [a]

Brothers in Law (1957) [a]

The Scamp (1957) [a]

Dunkirk (1958) [a]

Sea of Sand (1958) [a]

The Man Upstairs (1958) [a]

Danger Within (1959) [a]

I'm All Right Jack (1959) [a]

Jet Storm (1959) [a]

SOS Pacific (1959) [a]

The Angry Silence (1960) [a]

The League of Gentlemen (1960) [a]

All Night Long (1962) [a]

Only Two Can Play (1962) [a]

The Dock Brief (1962) [a]

The Great Escape (1963) [a]

Guns at Batasi (1964) [a]

Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) [a]

The Third Secret (1964) [a]

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) [a]

The Sand Pebbles (1966) [a]

Doctor Dolittle (1967) [a]

Only When I Larf (1968) [a]

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) [a]

Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) [d]

The Magic Christian (1969) [a]

A Severed Head (1970) [a]

Loot (1970) [a]

The Last Grenade (1970) [a]

10 Rillington Place (1971) [a]

Cup Glory (1972) [a]

Young Winston (1972) [d]

Ein Unbekannter rechnet ab (1974) [a]

Brannigan (1975) [a]

Conduct Unbecoming (1975) [a]

Rosebud (1975) [a]

A Bridge Too Far (1977) [d]

The Chess Players (1977) [a]

Magic (1978) [d]

The Human Factor (1979) [a]

Gandhi (1982) [d]

Chorus Line (1985) [d]

Mother Teresa (1986) [a]

Cry Freedom (1987) [d]

Chaplin (1992) [d]

Jurassic Park (1993) [a]

Shadowlands (1993) [d]

A Century of Cinema (1994) [a]

Miracle on 34th Street (1994) [a]

E=mc2 (1996) [a]

Hamlet (1996) [a]

In Love and War (1996) [d]

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) [a]

Elizabeth (1998) [a]

Grey Owl (1999) [d]

Puckoon (2002) [a]

Closing the Ring (2007) [d]



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