Cast & creator
Richard Attenborough
Best known for The Mike Douglas Show, The One Show, Great Performances
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.
Also known as: Baron Attenborough, Lord Richard Samuel Attenborough, CBE, Ричард Аттенборо, Sir Richard Attenborough, Richard Samuel Attenborough
129
film credits
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television credits
122
1942–2025 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (146)
Showing 146 of 146 credits
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The One Show
Self
2006
Great Performances
Self
1971
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee/Presenter
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Sacrée soirée
Self
1987
The South Bank Show
1978
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974Film '72
Self
1971
Parkinson
Self
1998
Parkinson
Self - Guest
2004
Jurassic Park
Hammond
1993
The Great Escape
Bartlett 'Big X'
1963
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
2013
A Bridge Too Far
Lunatic with Glasses (uncredited)
1977A Bridge Too Far
Director
1977
Miracle on 34th Street
Kris Kringle
1994
Gandhi
Director
1982Gandhi
Producer
1982
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Magog
2001
This Morning
Self
1988
British Film Forever
2007
The Flight of the Phoenix
Lew Moran
1965
Elizabeth
Sir William Cecil
1998
In Love and War
Director
1996In Love and War
Producer
1996
Chaplin
Director
1992Chaplin
Producer
1992
A Matter of Life and Death
An English Pilot
1946
Cry Freedom
Director
1987Cry Freedom
Producer
1987
Doctor Dolittle
Albert Blossom
1967
A Chorus Line
Director
1985
And Then There Were None
Judge Arthur Cannon
1974
Hamlet
English Ambassador
1996Friday People
1985
Closing the Ring
Director
2007Closing the Ring
Producer
2007
The Sand Pebbles
Frenchy Burgoyne
1966
Shadowlands
Director
1993Shadowlands
Producer
1993
The Human Factor
Colonel John Daintry
1979
Grey Owl
Director
1999Grey Owl
Producer
1999
Magic
Director
1978
10 Rillington Place
John Christie
1971
Oh! What a Lovely War
Director
1969Oh! What a Lovely War
Producer
1969
Only When I Larf
Silas
1968
In Which We Serve
Young Stoker
1942
London Belongs to Me
Percy Boon
1948
The L-Shaped Room
Producer
1962
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Robert Blossom
1968
The Magic Christian
Oxford Coach
1969
Return to Jurassic Park
Self (archive footage)
2011
I'm All Right Jack
Sidney De Vere Cox
1959
Brannigan
Cmdr. Charles Swann
1975
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
Self / John Hammond
1995
The League of Gentlemen
Lexy
1960
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Jacob
1999
Whistle Down the Wind
Producer
1961
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Bill
1964Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Producer
1964The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Self
1985
Young Winston
Director
1972
Dunkirk
John Holden
1958
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Self
1983
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Self
2003
A Century of Cinema
Self
1994
Only Two Can Play
Gareth L. Probert
1962
Gift Horse
Dripper Daniels
1952
Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
Self (archive footage)
1998
Private's Progress
Pvt. Percival Henry Cox
1956
Eight O'Clock Walk
Thomas Leslie Manning
1954
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
2014
Conduct Unbecoming
Major Lionel E. Roach
1975Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out
2009
Brighton Rock
Pinkie Brown
1948
Guns at Batasi
Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale
1964
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
Self
2003
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Self
1988
Rosebud
Edward Sloat
1975
The Third Secret
Alfred Price-Gorham
1964
Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool
Self
2005
The Ship That Died of Shame
George Hoskins
1955
Light Keeps Me Company
Self
2000
Pictures of Europe
Self
1990
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
Self
1993
Sea of Sand
Brody
1958
The Baby and the Battleship
Knocker White
1956
Hell Is Sold Out
Pierre Bonnet
1951
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Self
2000
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Self
1997
A Bridge Too Far: Richard Attenborough - A Director Remembers
Self - Interviewee
2003
Svejk Wrecks Germany
Railway worker
1943
Forever Ealing
Self
2002
School for Secrets
Jack Arnold
1946
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
Self
1969
Beyond Jurassic Park
Self
2001
The Angry Silence
Tom Curtis
1960The Angry Silence
Producer
1960
The Magic Box
Jack Carter
1952
A Severed Head
Palmer Anderson
1971
The Chess Players
General Outram
1977
The Guinea Pig
Jack Read
1948
Father's Doing Fine
Dougall
1952Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Self
1983
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
Self
2025
The Railway Children
The Old Gentleman
2000
All Night Long
Rod Hamilton
1962
The Lost People
Jan
1949
Journey Together
David Wilton
1945The Hundred Pound Window
Tommy Draper
1944
Jet Storm
Ernest Tilley
1959
Brothers in Law
Henry Marshall
1957
The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'
Self
2007
The Last Grenade
General Charles Whiteley
1970
The Man Within
Francis Andrews
1947
Dancing with Crime
Ted Peters
1947
Morning Departure
Stoker Snipe
1950
David Copperfield
Mr. Tungay
1969
Danger Within
Capt. 'Bunter' Phillips
1959The Most Famous Man in the World!
Self
2008
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
Self
1994
Loot
Inspector Truscott
1970
SOS Pacific
Whitey Mullen
1959
The Children Who Cheated the Nazis
Narrator
2000
Diana: The People's Princess
Self
2017
Boys in Brown
Jackie Knowles
1949
The Man Upstairs
Peter Watson
1958Within the Way Without
(voice)
2004
The True Glory
Commentator
1945
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
Self
2004
Diana: Queen of Hearts
Self - Narrator
1998
Puckoon
Writer/Director
2002Box for One
The Caller
1953
The Dock Brief
Herbert Fowle
1962
E=MC²
The Visitor
1996Strolling Into the Sunset
Self
2008
The Scamp
Stephen Leigh
1957
Mother Teresa
Narrator (voice)
1986
The Spirit of Grey Owl
Self
2000
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
John Hammond
1997Don't Make Me Laugh
1970Chaplin the Hero
Self
2008