Richard Attenborough

All Movies of Richard Attenborough

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 Year

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  6.3
  Closing the Ring
  In Kentucky, 1941, the wild and beautiful Ethel is courted by three friends, Jack, Chuck and Teddy, all of whom, unsurprisingly, are smitten with Ethel. But it is Teddy who becomes her sweetheart, and when the three friends are se...
  Director of the film

   2007

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  Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (TV)
  The life and times of actor Steve McQueen, on the 75th anniversary of his birth.
  Character: Self - Interviewee (as Lord Richard Attenborough)

   2005

• 
  8.4
  Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
  American film historian and author Richard Schickel directs the documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin. Schickel offers an exploration into Chaplin's life, from his childhood in London until his death in 1977. Th...
  Character: Himself - Director of 'Chaplin'

   2003

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  5.9
  Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (TV)
  This ambitious miniseries begins with Jack's descendant (Matthew Modine) and works its way backward to the story of the original young man and the beanstalk. Because the first Jack used that towering vine to steal a giant's magic ...
  Character:  Magog - Arbiter of Justice Great Council of Mac Slec 2 episodes, 2001

   2001

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  The Railway Children (TV)
  The film opens in a happy, comfortable upper class home in London, in the early twentieth century. Roberta, Phyllis and Peter are the three children of a wonderful mother and father. One day the father, who works at the Foreign Of...
  Character: The Old Gentleman

   2000

• 
  7.2
  Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  A humourously musical retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph.
  Character: Jacob

   1999

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  5.5
  Grey Owl
  In the 1930s, young Englishman Archibald Belaney (Pierce Brosnan) emigrates to Canada, and decides to live as a Native American named Grey Owl. While travelling as a trapper he meets Pony, a young Mohawk woman who is immediately e...
  Director of the film

   1999

• 
  7.6
  Elizabeth
  When catholic Queen Mary dies the succession goes to Elizabeth, the protestant half-sister Mary was not prepared to execute. The new queen finds herself surrounded by advisors, some supportive but some plotting to restore the cath...
  Character: Sir William Cecil

   1998

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  6.0
  In Love and War
  Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty, he is injured and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky
  Director of the film

   1997

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  The Making of 'Lost World'
  This feature-length documentary is incredibly informative with all its interviews with both the cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes footage filmed during the making of the film and special looks to the creation of the anim...
  Character: Self

   1997

• 
  6.2
  The Lost World: Jurassic Park
  John Hammond summons chaos theorist and onetime colleague Ian Malcolm to his home with some startling information -- while nearly everything at his Jurassic Park had been destroyed, engineers were also operating a second site, whe...
  Character: John Hammond

   1997

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  7.6
  Hamlet
  When Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) returns from his studies to find his father dead, and his mother married to his uncle, he grows suspicious. After being visited by his dead father as a ghost, his suspicions are confirmed and Hamlet f...
  Character: English Ambassador

   1996

• 
  6.4
  Miracle on 34th Street
  A little girl discovers dreams do come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the "secret" about Santa a long time ago, so Sus...
  Character: Kris Kringle

   1994

• 
  8.1
  Jurassic Park
  Billionaire John Hammond builds a theme park by cloning dinosaur DNA into living dinosaurs. Because of the accidental death of one of his workers, he hires several scientists to endorse the park: Alan Grant, a paleontologist, Elli...
  Character: Hammond

   1993

• 
  7.4
  Shadowlands
  Based on a true story, C S Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) is a world renowned writer and professor. Unmarried he leads a gentlemans life filled by intellectual pursuits, remaining untouched by any great passion, until he meets Joy Gresha...
  Director of the film

   1993

• 
  6.8
  Chaplin
  Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, and Chaplin's real-l...
  Director of the film

   1992

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  6.9
  Cry Freedom
  An epic drama based on the true story of newspaper editor Donald Woods' investigation into the murder of nationalist leader Steven Biko. Mistrustful of each other at first, but joined in their common desire to end apartheid, the b...
  Director of the film

   1987

• 
  5.9
  A Chorus Line
  An adaptation of one of the most successful and unusual musicals of all time. A group of Broadway hopefuls auditioning for a place in the chorus line of a new show, relate the stories of their lives -- their disappointments, their...
  Director of the film

   1985

• 
  8.1
  Gandhi
  Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed up with the unjust political system, he j...
  Director of the film

   1982

• 
  8.1
  The Human Factor
  This tense drama was the final film from director Otto Preminger (Laura, Anatomy of a Murder), with a star-studded cast and a screenplay by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love) adapted from Graham Greene's spy novel. At the offices ...
  Character: Colonel John Daintry

   1979

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  6.4
  Magic
  An eerie, terrifying story scripted by William Goldman from his own novel boasts Anthony Hopkins as a ventriloquist whose foul-mouthed dummy, Fats, begins to assert his own personality, leading Hopkins to question his sanity.
  Director of the film

   1978

• 
  7.6
  The Chess Players
  Set in colonial India in 1856. The British Resident of the East India Company (Richard Attenborough) has observed that the monarch of Lucknow, which is in his trading region, seems to be completely uninterested in government. He t...
  Character: General Outram

   1977

• 
  6.9
  A Bridge Too Far
  Richard Attenborough‘s star–studded re–telling of the allies‘ attempts to capture several bridges in Germany during World War II, in a campaign called operation Market Garden.
  Director of the film

   1977

• 
  5.8
  Brannigan
  Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law ...
  Character: Cmdr. Swann

   1975

• 
  5.0
  Rosebud
  In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group capers the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the 5 millionaires daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to h...
  Character: Edward Sloat

   1975

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  6.0
  Conduct Unbecoming
  A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating th...
  Character: Maj. Lionel E. Roach

   1975

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  6.0
  And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)
  Based on one of Agatha Christie's famous novels about a group of people who are lured to a Persian hotel and murdered one by one......
  Character: Judge Cannon

   1974

• 
  6.5
  Young Winston
  This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parli
  Director of the film

   1972

• 
  7.8
  10 Rillington Place
  London, 1949. John Christie is an unassuming, middle aged man who, along with his wife Ethel, manages the apartment building at 10 Rillington Place. His unassuming demeanor masks the fact of being a serial killer. His modus operan...
  Character: Christie

   1971

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  6.0
  The Last Grenade
  Two soldiers of fortune, Harry Grigsby and Kip Thompson, used to be the best of friends when they fought side by side in the Congo. But now Kip has changed sides and Grigsby does not forgive him for what he regards as a betrayal, ...
  Character: Gen. Charles Whiteley

   1970

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  A Severed Head
  Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in...
  Character: Palmer Anderson

   1970

• 
  7.5
  Loot
  Based on the play by 'Joe Orton' this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor and they have a coffin to spare. Then th...
  Character: Inspector Truscott

   1970

• 
  5.3
  The Magic Christian
  A series of strange sequences connected with a satire on greed.
  Character: Oxford Coach

   1969

• 
  6.0
  David Copperfield (TV)
  Character: Mr. Tungay

   1969

• 
  6.0
  The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
  Harriet Blossom, the lonely wife of a workaholic brassiere manufacturer, breaks her sewing machine and ends up in bed with the repairman, a mechanic from one of her husband's factories. The man, Ambrose, is supposed to leave durin...
  Character: Robert Blossom

   1969

• 
  6.9
  Oh! What a Lovely War
  A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the mo...
  Director of the film

   1969

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  Only When I Larf
  This is a glossy tongue-in-cheek tale of two conmen and their girlfriend accomplice constantly trying to keep one step a head of the game with mixed success. A love-triangle develops as the young protege tries to take over from...
  Character: Silas

   1968

• 
  4.9
  Doctor Dolittle
  Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet...
  Character: Albert Blossom

   1967

• 
  7.4
  The Sand Pebbles
  Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice...
  Character: Frenchy Burgoyne

   1966

• 
  7.2
  The Flight of the Phoenix
  After a cargo plane crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara, the surviving crew must fight starvation and their own fears in order to escape from the harsh desert before their meager supplies of food and water run out. The Flight of ...
  Character: Lew Moran

   1965

• 
  6.0
  The Third Secret
  Character: Alfred Price-Gorham

   1964

• 
  7.1
  Guns at Batasi
  A British regiment stationed in a Newly independent African state is preparing to celebrate the Queen's birthday when Colonel Deal is ordered to hand over command to the African Captain Abraham pending the result of political agit...
  Character: Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale

   1964

• 
  7.6
  Séance on a Wet Afternoon
  Myra (Kim Stanley), a self-styled psychic in London, concocts a scheme to gain celebrity. She convinces Billy, her weak-willed husband, to kidnap the young daughter of wealthy parents. She and Billy will demand money, and then she...
  Character: William Henry 'Bill' Savage

   1964

• 
  8.2
  The Great Escape
  The German high command has filtered out all of the allies' most talented escape artists and placed them in a POW camp specifically designed to foil any unwanted departures. But as soon as they arrive, the prisoners begin to work ...
  Character: Bartlett 'Big X'

   1963

• 
  6.0
  The Dock Brief
  Character: Fowle

   1962

• 
  6.0
  Only Two Can Play
  John Lewis is bored by his librarian's job and henpecked at home. Then Liz, wife of a local counciller, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair
  Character: Gareth L. Probert

   1962

• 
  6.6
  All Night Long
  The film, based on Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best Jazz musicians of the period - including Dave Brubeck and Charlie Mingus.
  Character: Rod Hamilton

   1962

• 
  7.4
  The Angry Silence
  The right of every individual to be different from his fellow men is the theme behind this internationally-hailed, British production. The story tells of a man's dilemma when he refused to participate in an unofficial strike, wher...
  Character: Tom Curtis

   1960

• 
  6.7
  The League of Gentlemen
  Character: Lexy

   1959

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  6.6
  I'm All Right Jack
  Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the t...
  Character: Sidney De Vere Cox

   1959

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  Jet Storm
  Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and everyone on board a...
  Character: Ernest Tilley

   1959

• 
  6.0
  SOS Pacific
  A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-ti...
  Character: Whitey Mullen

   1959

• 
  6.9
  Danger Within
  Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
   1959

• 
  6.5
  Dunkirk
  One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent but reserved treatment in Dunkirk. The film takes place during the 1940 evacuation of Allied troops across ...
  Character: John Holden

   1958

• 
  9.0
  The Man Upstairs
  Peter Watson is troubled with pain and and an inability to sleep. He tries to light the gas-fire and seeks held from another lodger, artist Nicholas, who is spending the night with his model and is reluctant to be disturbed. Anoth...
  Character: The Man Upstairs

   1958

• 
  6.0
  Sea of Sand
  A small British army team is sent to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Whilst they are there they spot a large number of tanks and realise that army intellige...
  Character: Brody

   1958

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  The Scamp
  Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
  Character: Stephen Leigh

   1957

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  Brothers in Law
  Newly qualified barrister Roger Thursby joins his flatmate as a trainee at a London law firm.
  Character: Henry Marshall

   1957

• 
  6.0
  The Baby and the Battleship
  After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts t...
  Character: Knocker White

   1956

• 
  6.0
  The Ship That Died of Shame (PT Raiders)
  After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
  Character: George Hoskins

   1955

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  Eight O'Clock Walk
  Taxicab driver Tom Banning is led to an abandoned bomb-site by an eight-year-old girl as an April-fool prank. The girl is later found murdered and Manning is picked up by Scotland Yard for questioning and is later arrested and cha...
  Character: Tom Manning

   1954

• 
  6.0
  Gift Horse
  The captain of a old destroyer in 1940 struggles with his crew as well as the Nazis.
  Character: Able Seaman 'Dripper' Daniels

   1952

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  7.0
  The Magic Box
  Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic ...
  Character: Jack Carter

   1951

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  Morning Departure
  The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
  Character: Stoker Snipe

   1950

• 
  6.0
  Boys in Brown
  Character: Jackie Knowles

   1949

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  London Belongs to Me
  Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, Percy becomes mixed up with gangsters and a murder. The story focuses on the effects this has...
  Character: Percy Boon

   1948

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  The Man Within
  Told in flashback, the film opens on a brutal scene of a 17-year-old boy, Francis Andrews, being brutally lashed during a police interrogation in which the boy thinks back to the past that placed him in this situation. He betrayed...
  Character: Francis Andrews

   1947

• 
  7.0
  A Matter of Life and Death
  Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talk...
   1946

• 
  6.6
  In Which We Serve
  Based on the true story of Lord Mountbatten's destroyer, In Which We Serve is one of the most memorable British films made during World War II. Unfolding in flashback as survivors cling to a dingy, the film interweaves the history...
  Character: Young Stoker

   1942