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]
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]
Father's Doing Fine (1952) [a]
Gift Horse (1952) [a]
Eight O'Clock Walk (1954) [a]
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) [a]
The Baby and the Battleship (1956) [a]
The Scamp (1957) [a]
Dunkirk (1958) [a]
Sea of Sand (1958) [a]
The Man Upstairs (1958) [a]
Danger Within (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]
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]
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]
The Last Grenade (1970) [a]
Loot (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]
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]
The best French Films of the 1910s
The brighter side of Franz Kafka
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