Richard Attenborough
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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 Golden Globe Awards. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street (1994) and Jurassic Park. He was the older brother of David Attenborough, a naturalist and broadcaster, and John Attenborough, an executive at Alfa Romeo. He was married to actress Sheila Sim from 1945 until his death.
Known for
Credits
Jurassic Park (1993)
as Hammond
The Great Escape (1963)
as Bartlett 'Big X'
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Lunatic with Glasses (uncredited)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
as Kris Kringle
Elizabeth (1998)
as Sir William Cecil
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
as Lew Moran
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
as Albert Blossom
And Then There Were None (1974)
as Judge Arthur Cannon
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
as An English Pilot
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
as Frenchy Burgoyne
Hamlet (1996)
as English Ambassador
In Which We Serve (1942)
as Young Stoker
Return to Jurassic Park (2011)
as Self (archive footage)
Only When I Larf (1968)
as Silas
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio (1985)
as Self
The Human Factor (1979)
as Colonel John Daintry
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
as Lexy
London Belongs to Me (1948)
as Percy Boon
The Magic Christian (1969)
as Oxford Coach
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)
as Jacob
Only Two Can Play (1962)
as Gareth L. Probert
Dunkirk (1958)
as John Holden
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough (2003)
as Self
Brannigan (1975)
as Cmdr. Charles Swann
10 Rillington Place (1971)
as John Christie
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
as Self
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century (1998)
as Self (archive footage)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
as Bill
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
as Sidney De Vere Cox
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
as George Hoskins
The Baby and the Battleship (1956)
as Knocker White
Rosebud (1975)
as Edward Sloat
A Century of Cinema (1994)
as Self
The Making of 'Jurassic Park' (1995)
as Self / John Hammond
James Bond: The First 21 Years (1983)
as Self
Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out (2009)
Actor
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (2005)
as Self
Light Keeps Me Company (2000)
as Self
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered (1993)
as Self
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014)
as Self
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute (1988)
as Self
Gift Horse (1952)
as Dripper Daniels
The Making of 'The Lost World' (1997)
as Self
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
as Major Lionel E. Roach
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
as Robert Blossom
The Magic Box (1952)
as Jack Carter
Forever Ealing (2002)
as Self
Sea of Sand (1958)
as Brody
Svejk Wrecks Germany (1943)
as Railway worker
The Angry Silence (1960)
as Tom Curtis
Brighton Rock (1948)
as Pinkie Brown
Pictures of Europe (1990)
as Self
The Third Secret (1964)
as Alfred Price-Gorham
Guns at Batasi (1964)
as Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale
Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)
as Thomas Leslie Manning
All Night Long (1962)
as Rod Hamilton
Hell Is Sold Out (1951)
as Pierre Bonnet
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000)
as Self
Jet Storm (1959)
as Ernest Tilley
School for Secrets (1946)
as Jack Arnold
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? (1969)
as Self
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid (1994)
as Self
The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
as Tommy Draper
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain (2025)
as Self
The Guinea Pig (1948)
as Jack Read
Private's Progress (1956)
as Pvt. Percival Henry Cox
A Bridge Too Far: Richard Attenborough - A Director Remembers (2003)
as Self - Interviewee
The Chess Players (1977)
as General Outram
Father's Doing Fine (1952)
as Dougall
The Last Grenade (1970)
as General Charles Whiteley
The Lost People (1949)
as Jan
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi (1983)
as Self
Loot (1970)
as Inspector Truscott
The Railway Children (2000)
as The Old Gentleman
The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles' (2007)
as Self
Diana: The People's Princess (2017)
as Self
Brothers in Law (1957)
as Henry Marshall
Morning Departure (1950)
as Stoker Snipe
The Man Within (1947)
as Francis Andrews
Journey Together (1945)
as David Wilton
The Children Who Cheated the Nazis (2000)
as Narrator
A Severed Head (1971)
as Palmer Anderson
David Copperfield (1969)
as Mr. Tungay
Boys in Brown (1949)
as Jackie Knowles
Dancing with Crime (1947)
as Ted Peters
Beyond Jurassic Park (2001)
as Self
The Man Upstairs (1958)
as Peter Watson
The Most Famous Man in the World! (2008)
as Self
Puckoon (2002)
as Writer/Director
Within the Way Without (2004)
as (voice)
Box for One (1953)
as The Caller
The True Glory (1945)
as Commentator
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival (2004)
as Self
Danger Within (1959)
as Capt. 'Bunter' Phillips
SOS Pacific (1959)
as Whitey Mullen
Strolling Into the Sunset (2008)
as Self
E=MC² (1996)
as The Visitor
Diana: Queen of Hearts (1998)
as Self - Narrator
The Dock Brief (1962)
as Herbert Fowle
The Scamp (1957)
as Stephen Leigh
Don't Make Me Laugh (1970)
Actor
Mother Teresa (1986)
as Narrator (voice)
Chaplin the Hero (2008)
as Self
The Spirit of Grey Owl (2000)
as Self
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
as John Hammond