Richard Attenborough
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday29 August 1923
Died24 August 2014 (age 90)
Place of birthCambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Known credits133
Biography
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 Gold…
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
2025 · Self
Diana: The People's Princess
2017 · Self
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014 · Self
Talking Pictures
2013 · Self (archive footage)
Return to Jurassic Park
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out
2009
Strolling Into the Sunset
2008 · Self
Chaplin the Hero
2008 · Self
The Most Famous Man in the World!
2008 · Self
Closing the Ring
2007 · Director
Closing the Ring
2007 · Producer
British Film Forever
2007
The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'
2007 · Self
The One Show
2006 · Self
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
2005 · Self
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
2004 · Self
Parkinson
2004 · Self - Guest
Within the Way Without
2004 · (voice)
A Bridge Too Far: Richard Attenborough - A Director Remembers
2003 · Self - Interviewee
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003 · Self
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003 · Self
Forever Ealing
2002 · Self
Puckoon
2002 · Writer/Director
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001 · Magog
Beyond Jurassic Park
2001 · Self
The Children Who Cheated the Nazis
2000 · Narrator
The Railway Children
2000 · The Old Gentleman
Light Keeps Me Company
2000 · Self
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000 · Self
The Spirit of Grey Owl
2000 · Self
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
1999 · Jacob
Grey Owl
1999 · Director
Grey Owl
1999 · Producer
Elizabeth
1998 · Sir William Cecil
Diana: Queen of Hearts
1998 · Self - Narrator
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
1998 · Self (archive footage)
Parkinson
1998 · Self
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · John Hammond
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997 · Self
Hamlet
1996 · English Ambassador
In Love and War
1996 · Director
In Love and War
1996 · Producer
E=MC²
1996 · The Visitor
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995 · Self / John Hammond
Miracle on 34th Street
1994 · Kris Kringle
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
1994 · Self
A Century of Cinema
1994 · Self
Shadowlands
1993 · Director
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