Richard Attenborough
Birthday: August 29, 1923
Birth Place: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Height: 5' 7"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Richard Attenborough. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

Biography

Movie Credits

The Snow Prince	(2006)
[ John Mills ]
Puckoon	(2002)
[ Elliott Gould ][ David Kelly ][ John Lynch ][ John Michie ]
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story	(2001)
[ Jon Voight ][ Matthew Modine ][ Freddie Highmore ][ Jonathan Hyde ]
The Railway Children	(2000)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat	(1999)
[ Donny Osmond ][ Ian McNeice ]
Elizabeth	(1998)
[ Geoffrey Rush ][ Daniel Craig ][ Joseph Fiennes ][ Vincent Cassel ][ Christopher Eccleston ]
Trespasser	(1998)
[ Michael Crichton ]
The Lost World: Jurassic Park	(1997)
[ Vince Vaughn ][ Jeff Goldblum ][ Peter Stormare ][ John Williams ][ Joseph Mazzello ]
Hamlet	(1996)
[ Robin Williams ][ Kenneth Branagh ][ Charlton Heston ][ Jack Lemmon ][ Billy Crystal ]
E=mc2	(1996)
[ Jeremy Piven ][ Dominic West ]
Miracle on 34th Street	(1994)
[ Elvis Presley ][ John Hughes ][ James Remar ][ Dylan McDermott ][ J.T. Walsh ]
Jurassic Park	(1993)
[ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Jeff Goldblum ][ Sam Neill ][ Wayne Knight ][ John Williams ]
The Human Factor	(1979)
[ Derek Jacobi ][ John Gielgud ]
A Bridge Too Far	(1977)
[ Sean Connery ][ Anthony Hopkins ][ Robert Redford ][ Gene Hackman ][ Michael Caine ]
Shatranj Ke Khilari	(1977)
[ Amitabh Bachchan ]
Conduct Unbecoming	(1975)
[ Christopher Plummer ][ Michael York ][ Stacy Keach ]
Brannigan	(1975)
[ John Wayne ][ John Vernon ][ Mel Ferrer ]
Rosebud	(1975)
[ Peter O'Toole ][ Cliff Gorman ]
And Then There Were None	(1974)
[ Orson Welles ][ Oliver Reed ][ Herbert Lom ]
Cup Glory	(1972)
10 Rillington Place	(1971)
[ John Hurt ][ Robert Hardy ][ Edward Woodward ]
A Severed Head	(1970)
[ Ian Holm ]
The Last Grenade	(1970)
[ Julian Glover ][ John Thaw ]
Loot	(1970)
David Copperfield	(1969)
[ Laurence Olivier ]
The Magic Christian	(1969)
[ Christopher Lee ][ John Cleese ][ Roman Polanski ][ Peter Sellers ][ Yul Brynner ]
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom	(1968)
[ John Cleese ][ Barry Humphries ]
Only When I Larf	(1968)
Doctor Dolittle	(1967)
[ Rex Harrison ][ Geoffrey Holder ]
The Sand Pebbles	(1966)
[ Steve McQueen ][ Mako ][ Richard Crenna ]
The Flight of the Phoenix	(1965)
[ James Stewart ][ Ernest Borgnine ][ George Kennedy ]
Guns at Batasi	(1964)
[ Graham Stark ]
Seance on a Wet Afternoon	(1964)
The Third Secret	(1964)
The Great Escape	(1963)
[ Steve McQueen ][ Charles Bronson ][ James Garner ][ Donald Pleasence ]
The Dock Brief	(1962)
[ Peter Sellers ]
Only Two Can Play	(1962)
[ Peter Sellers ][ Desmond Llewelyn ][ Graham Stark ]
All Night Long	(1961)
[ Patrick McGoohan ]
The Angry Silence	(1960)
[ Oliver Reed ]
SOS Pacific	(1959)
Jet Storm	(1959)
Danger Within	(1959)
[ Michael Caine ]
I'm All Right Jack	(1959)
[ Peter Sellers ]
The League of Gentlemen	(1959)
[ Oliver Reed ]
Sea of Sand	(1958)
The Man Upstairs	(1958)
Dunkirk	(1958)
[ John Mills ]
Brothers in Law	(1957)
The Scamp	(1957)
The Baby and the Battleship	(1956)
[ John Mills ]
Private's Progress	(1956)
[ Christopher Lee ]
The Ship That Died of Shame	(1955)
Gift Horse	(1952)
Eight O'Clock Walk	(1952)
Father's Doing Fine	(1952)
The Magic Box	(1951)
[ Laurence Olivier ][ Peter Ustinov ][ David Tomlinson ]
Hell Is Sold Out	(1951)
[ Herbert Lom ]
Morning Departure	(1950)
[ John Mills ]
Boys in Brown	(1949)
The Lost People	(1949)
London Belongs to Me	(1948)
The Guinea Pig	(1948)
Brighton Rock	(1947)
Dancing with Crime	(1947)
The Man Within	(1947)
School for Secrets	(1946)
[ David Tomlinson ]
A Matter of Life and Death	(1946)
[ David Niven ]
Journey Together	(1946)
[ Rex Harrison ][ David Tomlinson ]
The Hundred Pound Window	(1944)
Schweik's New Adventures	(1943)
In Which We Serve	(1942)
[ David Lean ][ John Mills ]

Trivia

• It was his life ambition to direct Gandhi (1982).
• Philosphies include believing in content as opposed to style and sincerity rather than intelligence.
• He reprised his Jurassic Park (1993) character, John Hammond, for Universal Studio's Jurassic Park: The Ride attraction. He appears in a short film at the beginning of the ride telling you that the NEW Jurassic Park (the ride you're on) is completely safe, and that there will never be another incident like that at Costa Rica in 1993.
• 57 years after he starred in Brighton Rock (1947), his son, Michael Attenborough, is directing a musical version of Graham Greene's novel. [2004]
• Was the first to star in Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" in 1952, now the longest-running play in the world.
• Has two brothers, naturalist/presenter David Attenborough, and John Attenborough. Also, during World War Two, his parents adopted two German Jewish girls, who had been brought to Britain as part of the Kindertransport.
• Appointed a CBE in 1967, knighted in 1976 and created a life peer in 1993.
• Third president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) [2002-]
• Vice-president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) [1971-1994]
• Freeman of the City of Leicester, 1990.
• Fellow of King's College, London, 1993.
• Created an honorary D.Litt of the Universities of Leicester, Kent and Sussex in 1970, 1981 and 1987 respectively.
• In December 2002 he said he would go back on his claim to never appear in front of the camera again for one role only: that of Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.
• Brother-in-law of actor Gerald Sim
• Former father-in-law of actress Jane Seymour
• Life Vice-President of Chelsea Football Club
• Was made President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 2003, a role that had been vacant since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.
• He was awarded the Patricia Rothermere Award for his lifelong service to theatre at the 2003 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
• He was trained at RADA (The Royal Acadamy of Dramatic Arts), where he later became Chairman.
• Father of director Michael Attenborough and actress Charlotte Attenborough
• Often casts Anthony Hopkins.
• Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 78-84. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
• Steven Spielberg has named him as an influence.
• Members of his family - daughter Jane, son-in-law Michael Holland, grandchildren Sam, Lucy and Alice and Michael's mother Jane - were holidaying in Phuket, Thailand when the area was hit by the South Asian tsunami on Boxing Day 2004. Lord Attenborough lost his daughter, her mother-in-law and his fourteen-year-old granddaughter Lucy in the tragedy. His elder granddaughter, seventeen-year-old Alice, was seriously injured and his son-in-law and grandson survived physically unscathed. [December 26, 2004]
• Has been involved in some form with the University of Sussex since 1970; he was elected Chancellor of the University on March 20, 1998, replacing the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, who had held that post since 1985.
• Attended the funeral of British film producer Lord John Brabourne in September 2005.
• He was a close friend of the English actor Sir John Mills for many years, and gave the eulogy at his funeral in April 2005.
• On 11 May 2005, he gave a reading at a national British memorial service for the victim of the South Asian tsunami. Lord Attenborough lost three members of his family in the tragedy.
• Godfather of Emma Forbes.
• Directed 4 different performers in Oscar-nominated performances: Ben Kingsley, Denzel Washington, Robert Downey Jr. and Debra Winger. Kingsley won an Oscar for his performance in Gandhi (1982).

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