Richard Attenborough
1923–2014 · British actor
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough was an English actor, film director, and producer. He won a total of two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards for his directing and acting career spanning seven decades. He was knighted in 1976 for services to film and in 1983 he received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.
Richard Attenborough, in order
- 1942 In Which We Serve: acted · directed by David Lean and Noël Coward · critics 89%, audiences 75% · streaming on HBO Max, Roku Channel, Criterion Channel
- 1943 Schweik's New Adventures: acted · directed by Karel Lamač
- 1945 Journey Together: acted · directed by John Boulting
- 1946 A Matter of Life and Death: acted · directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell
- 1947 Brighton Rock: acted · directed by John Boulting
- 1947 Dancing with Crime: acted · directed by John Paddy Carstairs
- 1948 London Belongs to Me: wrote, acted · directed by Sidney Gilliat
- 1948 The Guinea Pig: acted · directed by Roy Boulting
- 1949 Boys in Brown: acted · directed by Montgomery Tully
- 1950 Morning Departure: acted · directed by Roy Ward Baker
- 1951 The Magic Box: acted · directed by John Boulting · audiences 76%
- 1952 Father's Doing Fine: acted · directed by Henry Cass
- 1952 Gift Horse: acted · directed by Compton Bennett
- 1954 Eight O'Clock Walk: acted · directed by Lance Comfort
- 1955 The Ship That Died of Shame: acted · directed by Basil Dearden
- 1956 Private's Progress: acted · directed by John Boulting
- 1956 The Baby and the Battleship: acted · directed by Jay Lewis
- 1957 Brothers in Law: acted · directed by Roy Boulting
- 1957 The Scamp: acted · directed by Wolf Rilla
- 1958 Dunkirk: acted · directed by Leslie Norman
- 1958 Sea of Sand: acted · directed by Guy Green
- 1958 The Man Upstairs: acted · directed by Don Chaffey
- 1959 Danger Within: acted · directed by Don Chaffey
- 1959 I'm All Right Jack: acted · directed by John Boulting
- 1959 Jet Storm: acted · directed by Cy Endfield
- 1959 SOS Pacific: acted · directed by Guy Green
- 1960 The Angry Silence: produced, acted · directed by Guy Green
- 1960 The Dock Brief: acted · directed by James Hill and Raymond Menmuir
- 1960 The League of Gentlemen: acted · directed by Basil Dearden
- 1961 Whistle Down the Wind: produced · directed by Bryan Forbes
- 1962 All Night Long: acted · directed by Basil Dearden
- 1962 Only Two Can Play: acted · directed by Sidney Gilliat
- 1962 The L-Shaped Room: produced · directed by Bryan Forbes
- 1963 The Great Escape: acted · directed by John Sturges · critics 94%, audiences 95% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
- 1964 Guns at Batasi: acted · directed by John Guillermin
- 1964 Séance on a Wet Afternoon: produced, acted · directed by Bryan Forbes
- 1964 The Third Secret: acted · directed by Charles Crichton
- 1965 The Flight of the Phoenix: acted · directed by Robert Aldrich · critics 90%, audiences 81% · streaming on fuboTV
- 1966 The Sand Pebbles: acted · directed by Robert Wise · critics 86%, audiences 87%
- 1967 Doctor Dolittle: acted · directed by Richard Fleischer
- 1968 Only When I Larf: acted · directed by Basil Dearden
- 1968 The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom: acted · directed by Joseph McGrath
- 1969 David Copperfield: acted · directed by Delbert Mann
- 1969 Oh! What a Lovely War: directed
- 1969 The Magic Christian: acted · directed by Joseph McGrath · critics 59%, audiences 68% · streaming on Plex, Fawesome
- 1970 A Severed Head: acted · directed by Dick Clement
- 1970 Loot: acted · directed by Silvio Narizzano
- 1970 The Last Grenade: acted · directed by Gordon Flemyng
- 1971 10 Rillington Place: acted · directed by Richard Fleischer
- 1972 Young Winston: directed
- 1974 And Then There Were None: acted · directed by Peter Collinson · audiences 32% · streaming on Kanopy
- 1975 Brannigan: acted · directed by Douglas Hickox
- 1975 Conduct Unbecoming: acted · directed by Michael Anderson · critics 63%, audiences 39% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Prime Video (free)
- 1975 Rosebud: acted · directed by Otto Preminger
- 1977 A Bridge Too Far: directed, acted
- 1977 The Chess Players: acted · directed by Satyajit Ray
- 1978 Magic: directed
- 1979 The Human Factor: acted · directed by Otto Preminger
- 1982 Gandhi: directed, produced · critics 89%, audiences 92% · streaming on YouTube (free)
- 1985 A Chorus Line: directed · critics 48%, audiences 61% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, YouTube (free)
- 1987 Cry Freedom: directed, produced
- 1992 Chaplin: directed, produced
- 1993 Jurassic Park: acted · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 91%, audiences 91% · streaming on Peacock, Philo, Starz
- 1993 Shadowlands: directed, produced
- 1994 A Century of Cinema: acted · directed by Caroline Thomas
- 1994 Miracle on 34th Street: acted · directed by Les Mayfield
- 1996 Hamlet: acted · directed by Kenneth Branagh
- 1996 In Love and War: directed, produced
- 1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park: acted · directed by Steven Spielberg · critics 57%, audiences 52% · streaming on Philo, Starz
- 1998 Elizabeth: acted · directed by Shekhar Kapur · critics 85%, audiences 86%
- 1999 Grey Owl: directed, produced
- 1999 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: acted · directed by David Mallet
- 2000 Sven Nykvist: Light Keeps Me Company: acted · directed by Carl-Gustaf Nykvist · critics 100%, audiences 69% · streaming on Philo, Kanopy
- 2001 Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (TV movie): acted · directed by Brian Henson
- 2003 Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin: acted · directed by Richard Schickel · critics 95%, audiences 90%
- 2007 Closing the Ring: directed
- Royal Air Force Film Production Unit: acted