Richard Attenborough

Born: 29 August 1923, Cambridge, Cambs.

  • Portraits (20)

  • In Which We Serve (1942) (3)

  • The Hundred Pound Window (1943) (1)

  • Journey Together (1945) (4)

  • Brighton Rock (1947) (14)

  • The Guinea Pig (1948) (3)

  • London Belongs to Me (1948) (3)

  • Boys in Brown (1949) (6)

  • The Lost People (1949) (1)

  • Hell Is Sold Out (1951) (4)

  • The Magic Box (1951) (1)

  • The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) (1)

  • Brothers in Law (1956) (2)

  • Private's Progress (1956) (2)

  • The Scamp (1957) (1)

  • Dunkirk (1958) (1)

  • S O S Pacific (1959) (6)

  • I'm All Right Jack (1959) (2)

  • The Angry Silence (1959) (5)

  • The League of Gentlemen (1960) (2)

  • Whistle down the Wind (1961) (1)

  • The L-shaped Room (1962) (1)

  • The Great Escape (1963) (10)

  • The Third Secret (1964) (1)

  • Guns at Batasi (1964) (4)

  • Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) (5)

  • The Sand Pebbles (1966) (3)

  • Doctor Dolittle (1967) (1)

  • Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) (3)

  • The Magic Christian (1969) (1)

  • Loot (1970) (3)

  • 10 Rillington Place (1970) (7)

  • A Severed Head (1970) (1)

  • Young Winston (1972) (3)

  • Rosebud (1974) (1)

  • SHATRANJ KE KHILARI (1977) (3)

  • A Bridge Too Far (1977) (7)

  • Magic (1978) (1)

  • Gandhi (1982) (8)

  • A Chorus Line (1985) (3)

  • Cry Freedom (1987) (3)

  • Jurassic Park (1992) (5)

  • Chaplin (1992) (3)

  • Shadowlands (1993) (1)

  • Miracle on 34th Street (1994) (3)

  • In Love and War (1996) (1)

  • Grey Owl (1998) (2)

  • Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001) (2)

  • Closing the Ring (2006) (1)

  • Stills (26)

Highlighted works

Gandhi

The icon of India’s independence movement was described in newsreels as “the little man”, but the ambition and scale of Richard Attenborough’s biopic are nothing short of colossal.

Brighton Rock

Nastier than anything else in 1940s British cinema, Richard Attenborough’s intense performance as teenage gangster Pinkie Brown elevates this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel.

The Great Escape

A true-life WWII POW story gets all-star Hollywood treatment, topped by Steve McQueen’s iconic (and fictional) motorbike ride towards freedom.

I'm All Right Jack

Factory bosses’ scheming greed and their employees’ stubborn self-interest collide in this satire on the British at work and on strike.

A Matter of Life and Death

In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s audacious Technicolor fantasy, WWII airman David Niven finds himself summoned to heaven after surviving a plane crash that should have killed him.

In Which We Serve

In this wartime tribute to the courage of the British Navy, Noël Coward traces turbulent experiences across the ranks on an ill-fated destroyer.

Filmography

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