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posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on August 29, 2017 at 6:54 PM
on his birthday, Richard Attenborough (Born: August 29, 1923; Died: Aug 24, 2014).
Richard Attenborough is known for his roles as Pinkie Brown in the movie "Brighton Rock (1947)", as Roger Bartlett "Big X" in "The Great Escape (1963)", as Lew Moran in "The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)", as John Hammond in the movies "Jurassic Park (1993)" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)" and as Kris Kringle in "Miracle on 34th Street (1994)".
Some other movies he appeared in are "The Hundred Pound Window (1944)", "Journey Together (1945)", "Stairway to Heaven (1946)", "Secret Flight (1946)", "the Smugglers (1947)", "Dancing with Crime (1947)", "Dulcimer Street (1948)", "The Outsider (1948)", "The Lost People (1949)", "Boys in Brown (1949)", "Operation Disaster (1950)", "Hell Is sold Out (1951)", "The Magic Box (1951)", "Glory at Sea (1952)", "Father's doing Fine (1952)", "Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)", "PT Raiders (1955)", "Private's Progress (1956)", "The Baby and the Battleship (1956)", "Brothers in Law (1957)", "Strange Affection (1957)", "Dunkirk (1958)", "The Man Upstairs (1958)", "Desert Patrol (1958)", "Breakout (1959)", "I'm All Right Jack (1959)", "Jet Storm (1959)", "SOS Pacific (1959)", "The Angry Silence (1960)", "The League of Gentlemen (1960)", "Only Two Can Play (1962)", "All Night Long (1962)", "Trial and Error (1962)", "The Third Secret (1964)", "Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)", "Guns at Batasi (1964)", "The Sand Pebbles (1966)", "Doctor DoLittle (1967)", "Only When I Larf (1968)", "The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)", "The Magic Christian (1969)", "David Copperfield (1970)", "The Last Grenade (1970)", "Loot (1970)", "A Severed Head (1970)", "10 Rillington Place (1971)", "Ten Little Indians (1974)", "Brannigan (1975)", "Rosebud (1975)", "Conduct Unbecoming (1975)", "The Chess Players (1977)", "The Human Factor (1979)", "Hamlet (1996)", "E=mc2 (1996)", "Elizabeth (1998)" and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)".
In 1983 he won the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Picture for the movie "Gandhi (1982)".
Reply by rudely_murray
on August 29, 2017 at 8:17 PM
A much better actor than director - his performances in Brighton Rock and Seance on a Wet Afternoon are particularly memorable. That said, he did a fine job with Shadowlands, the only one of his films as director (of those I've seen) that I'd call memorable.
His younger brother David is my lifelong hero, though. :)