From The Angry Silence and Guns of Batasi to Gandhi and Cry Freedom, Richard Attenborough has excelled as an actor, director and producer in a superlative career.
Richard Attenborough has acting credits in the following films unless otherwise stated:
1942 | In Which We Serve |
1943 | Schweik’s New adventures |
1943 | The Hundred Pound Window |
1945 | Journey Together |
1945 | The True Glory |
1946 | A Matter of Life and Death |
1946 | School for Secrets |
1947 | The Man Within |
1947 | Dancing with Crime |
1947 | Brighton Rock |
1948 | London Belongs to Me |
1948 | The Guinea Pig |
1949 | The Lost People |
1949 | Boys in Brown |
1949 | Morning Departure |
1951 | Hell is Sold Out |
1951 | The Magic Box |
1952 | The Gift Horse |
1952 | Father’s Doing Fine |
1953 | Eight O’Clock Walk |
1955 | The Ship that Died of Shame |
1955 | Private’s Progress |
1956 | The Baby and the Battleship |
1956 | Brothers in Law |
1957 | The Scamp |
1958 | Dunkirk |
1958 | The Man Upstairs |
1958 | Sea of Sand |
1958 | Danger Within |
1959 | I’m All Right, Jack |
1959 | Jet Storm |
1959 | S.O.S Pacific |
1959 | The Angry Silence (Actor, Producer) |
1960 | The League of Gentlemen |
1960 | Man in the Moon (Director for Allied Film Makers) |
1961 | Only Two Can Play |
1961 | All Night Long |
1961 | Whistle Down the Wind (Producer) |
1961 | Victim (Director for Allied Film Makers) |
1962 | The Dock Brief |
1962 | The Great Escape |
1962 | Life for Ruth (Director for Allied Film Makers) |
1962 | The L-Shaped Room (Producer) |
1964 | Séance on a Wet Afternoon |
1964 | The Third Secret |
1964 | Guns at Batasi |
1965 | The Flight of the Phoenix |
1966 | The Sand Pebbles |
1967 | Doctor Dolittle |
1968 | The Bliss of Mrs Blossom |
1968 | Only When I Larf |
1969 | The Last Grenade |
1969 | The Magic Christian |
1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War (Director) |
1970 | David Copperfield |
1970 | A Severed Head |
1970 | Loot |
1970 | 10 Rillington Place |
1972 | Young Winston (Director) |
1974 | And Then There Were None |
1974 | Rosebud |
1975 | Brannigan |
1975 | Conduct Unbecoming |
1977 | A Bridge Too Far (Director) |
1977 | The Chess Players |
1978 | Magic (Director) |
1979 | The Human Factor |
1982 | Gandhi (Director) |
1985 | A Chorus Line (Director) |
1985 | Mother Theresa (Narrator) |
1987 | Cry Freedom (Director) |
1992 | Chaplin (Director) |
1993 | Jurassic Park |
1993 | Shadowlands (Director/Producer) |
1994 | Miracle on 34th Street |
1996 | E=MCsquared |
1996 | Hamlet |
1996 | In Love and War (Director/Producer) |
1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park |
1998 | Elizabeth |
1999 | Grey Owl |
1999 | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
2002 | Puckoon |
2007 | Closing the Ring (Director/Producer) |
!!! Attenborough at the Awards
First nominated by the Academy in 1961 for his role in Guy Green's The Angry Silence (a film Attenborough also produced), a further British Actor nomination followed in 1963 for The Dock Brief. It wasn't until 1965 though that Attenborough finally won the British Actor Award for his performances in Guns of Batasi and Seance on a Wet Afternoon.
The Academy first recognised Attenborough's directorial talents in 1970 by nominating his film Oh! What a Lovely War, but he missed out to John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy. However, at the Awards in 1983 Gandhi brought him multiple success. The film maker took home Masks in the Best Film and Direction categories while Ben Kingsley picked up Acting and Newcomer Awards and Rohini Hattangadi won for Best Supporting Actress.
Attenborough also notched up another double-win in 1998 as Cry Freedom won both the Direction and Best Film BAFTAs. His biopic of writer CS Lewis, Shadowlands, won him yet another mask in 1994 and the film received two further nominations in the Best Film and Direction Categories.