Richard Attenborough
Director, Actor
- Brighton Rock (1947)
- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
- One of the coolest British crime flicks sees Richard Attenborough give an attention–grabbing portrayal of a delinquent gang leader who wants…
- Boys in Brown, The (1949)
- Dir. Montgomery Tully
Feat. Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde…
- Soft youth rebellion drama with Jack Warner as warden of a borstal struggling to keep his tempestuous young charges in line. Mostly of note for its…
- Morning Departure (Operation Disaster) (1950)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough
- A British submarine patrolling in the period just after WWII, hits a leftover mine and plunges seriously damaged to the sea–bed. The captain…
- Private's Progress (1956)
- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas…
- Popular Ealing war satire finds Ian Carmichael, as the film’s spotty college freshman, conscripted to military service where he’s whipped into…
- Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) (1958)
- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Michael Craig…
- Brit war thriller about an army team sent to destroy a German petrol dump in preparation for an attack who are confronted by their enemies in the…
- Dunkirk (1958)
- Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Richard Attenborough, John Mills, Bernard Lee…
- British war film set during the 1940 evacuation of French and British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk, following the contrasting perspectives of a…
- Danger Within (1959)
- Dir. Don Chaffey
Feat. Richard Attenborough
- In an Italian POW camp in WW2, 400 plan to escape but one plans to betray. Can you spot the traitor? Richard Attenborough leads the cast of suspects.
- I'm All Right Jack (1959)
- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas…
- Brilliant satire of labour and class relations, makes a glorious mockery of unions and management alike as upperclass twit Ian Carmichael joins the…
- League of Gentlemen, The (1960)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes…
- A high–class league of British actor gents – Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Roger Livesy and others – conspire…
- Angry Silence, The (1960)
- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig…
- Probing social drama unfurls labour conflicts in the sixties and the breakdown of trade unions, with Richard Attenborough as the antagonised factory…
- Only Two Can Play (1961)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough…
- One of Peter Seller's earlier films sees him in rare semi–dramatic part, playing a librarian in a small Welsh town who has an affair. Dryly…
- All Night Long (Die Heisse Nacht) (1961)
- Dir. Basil Dearden, Michael Relph
Feat. Patrick McGoohan, Richard Attenborough, Keith Michell…
- Set in London's smoky jazz scene, this updating of Othello is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best Jazz musicians of the…
- Trial and Error (The Dock Brief) (1962)
- Dir. James Hill
Feat. Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Beryl Reid
- Sellers plays a washed–up barrister who must represent wife–murderer Attenborough, who insists upon his guilt. This is ignored by Sellers…
- Great Escape, The (1963)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough…
- McQueen heads a star–studded international cast in this superb drama based on a true account of an escape from a German POW camp by a group of…
- Seance On a Wet Afternoon (1964)
- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough
- This British classic boasts a rare performance by the amazing Kim Stanley as a gently off–her–rocker matron who goads her meek husband…
- Guns At Batasi (1964)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Dame Flora Robson…
- Set during the last days of the British Empire in East Africa, an anachronistic martinet RSM is caught in a local coup d'etat, and must use his…
- Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch…
- One of the great survival–adventure films has an all–star cast crash landing their cargo plane deep in the Sahara, with no obvious means…
- Sand Pebbles, The (1966)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen
- An epic series of adventures on an American gunboat in the turbulent China of the 1920s, Steve McQueen giving a particularly underrated performance,…
- Magic Christian, The (1969)
- Dir. Joseph McGrath
Feat. Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Richard Attenborough…
- From Terry Southern's novel, a wildly loopy satire about an eccentric multi–millionaire (Peter Sellers) who adopts a destitute son (Ringo…
- Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves…
- Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
- Loot (1970)
- Dir. Silvio Narizzano
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Milo O'Shea…
- Broad English farce, based around Joe Orton's stageplay, in which bank–robbers hide their loot in a coffin under the body. As slapstick comedy…
- Last Grenade, The (1970)
- Dir. Gordon Flemyng
Feat. Sir Stanley Baker, Honor Blackman, Alex Cord…
- Slam–bang action pic with Baker and Cord as opposing mercenaries duking it out in exotic Hong Kong locales, shot in scope and with a…
- 10 Rillington Place (1971)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt…
- Richard Attenborough re–creates the activities of UK serial–killer John Christie.
- Young Winston (1972)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward…
- The early life of Britain's greatest political leader, through his time in India, Sudan and the Boer War to his ascendancy at the House of Commons.
- And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) (1974)
- Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough…
- Agatha Christie’s "Ten Little Indians" receives a clunky, if still entertaining makeover in this stacked international adaptation of the macabre…
- Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard
- Well–made, though somewhat old–fashioned version of Barry England's play about misbehaviour among the British Army in India. The stars…
- Brannigan (1975)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson…
- Effective late–career casting for Wayne, playing a Chicago cop who pursues a criminal across the Atlantic to London. Although featuring a…
- Rosebud (1975)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Peter Lawford…
- Preminger's penultimate film is sadly a mess. Members of the Palestinian Liberation Army kidnap five heiresses in order to bring attention to their…
- Chess Players, The (1977)
- Dir. Satyajit Ray
Feat. Richard Attenborough
- India's first internationally renowned film–maker draws upon the ancient game of chess as a metaphor for Anglo–Indian political relations…
- Bridge Too Far, A (1977)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Robert Redford, Sean Connery…
- Perhaps a battle–scene too far for some, but for afficiandos this epic account of an abortive Allied invasion of Holland is sure to provide…
- Magic (1978)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith
- Anthony Hopkins is tormented by his evil ventriloquist dummy in an off–kilter thriller, that misses a little screen magic. Scripted by William…
- Human Factor, The (1979)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi…
- Otto Preminger last film is a mild espionage affair, concerning a low–level British informant suspected of being a double agent. A hefty cast…
- Gandhi (1982)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox…
- Epic retelling of the life of the inspirational Indian leader with Ben Kingsley as 'The Mahatma'. Won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.
- A Chorus Line (1985)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Michael Douglas
- Michael Douglas plays the cantankerous Broadway director in Sir Richard Attenborough's perfunctory adaptation of the highly successful stage musical.…
- Cry Freedom (1987)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline
- Potent political cinema based on the story of black South African activist Steve Biko (Denzel Washington), whose suspicious death was investigated by…
- Chaplin (1992)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Hopkins
- A reverent yet captivating biopic of comic genius Charlie Chaplin, boasting an uncanny central performance from Robert Downey Jnr. Commendably…
- Shadowlands (1993)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger
- Anthony Hopkins is terrific as academic and children's author C.S. Lewis, who discovers a well of unfathomable emotion when his American divorcee…
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum…
- Richard Attenborough's eccentric billionaire has perfected his tropical island themepark. With cutting edge science; he has revived the dinosaurs!…
- Miracle On 34th Street (1994)
- Dir. Les Mayfield
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott
- Richard Attenborough plays Kris Kringle, a department store Santa who defiantly thinks he's the real thing. Sweet remake of classic Christmas tale…
- In Love and War (1996)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Chris O'Donnell, Sandra Bullock, Margot Steinberg
- Semi–biographical account of the young, manful Ernest Hemingway's WWI romance/Florence Nightingale complex, based on Agnes von Kurowsky's…
- Lost World, The (Jurassic Park 2) (1997)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite…
- Spielberg steals a few licks from KING KONG for this perfunctory JURASSIC PARK sequel. Yup, its more of the same, really, so its no surprise that the…
- Elizabeth (1998)
- Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes…
- Attended by much ballyhoo, Australian actress Cate Blanchett fruitfully represents England's famous Queen as a key player in the sex…
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)
- Dir. Steven Pimlott, David Mallet
Feat. Donny Osmond, Joan Collins, Richard Attenborough
- Early, Bible–story musical from the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice team and taken from the London Palladium production.
- Grey Owl (1999)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Annie Galipeau
- True–story of Englishman Archie Belany, whose obsession with all things Native American led to his emigration to the North American wilderness,…
- Railway Children, The (2000)
- Dir. Catherine Morshead
Feat. Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen, Richard Attenborough
- Reviving Edith Nesbit’s classic turn–of–the–century tale of three siblings displaced to the English countryside is this freshly…
- Jack and the Beanstalk - The Real Story (2001)
- Dir. Brian Henson
Feat. Matthew Modine, Jon Voight, Vanessa Redgrave…
- TV sequel to the fairytale of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' in which a descendant of Jack (Modine) must lift a family curse by returning the world of the…
- Puckoon (2002)
- Dir. Terence Ryan
Feat. Elliott Gould, John Lynch, Griff Rhys-Jones…
- A flawed but unique adaptation of Spike Milligan's 1963 satirical novel set on the troubled borders of Northern Ireland in the 1920s.
With a plot…
- Closing the Ring (2007)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton…
- Richard Attenborough–directed romance set both in the '40s and present–day, following the wartime history of a ring and an unbreakable…