Lord Attenborough Filmography

28 May 08

From The Angry Silence and Guns of Batasi to Gandhi and Cry Freedom, Richard Attenborough has excelled as an actor, director and producer in a superlative career.

Producer/Director Richard Attenborough and Actor Ben Kingsley on the set of Gandhi (1982)

Richard Attenborough has acting credits in the following films unless otherwise stated.

1942	In Which We Serve
1943	Schweik’s New adventures
1943	The Hundred Pound Window
1945	Journey Together
1945	The True Glory
1946	A Matter of Life and Death
1946	School for Secrets
1947	The Man Within
1947	Dancing with Crime
1947	Brighton Rock
1948	London Belongs to Me
1948	The Guinea Pig
1949	The Lost People
1949	Boys in Brown
1949	Morning Departure
1951	Hell is Sold Out
1951	The Magic Box
1952	The Gift Horse
1952	Father’s Doing Fine
1953	Eight O’Clock Walk
1955	The Ship that Died of Shame
1955	Private’s Progress
1956	The Baby and the Battleship
1956	Brothers in Law
1957	The Scamp
1958	Dunkirk
1958	The Man Upstairs
1958	Sea of Sand
1958	Danger Within
1959	I’m All Right, Jack
1959	Jet Storm
1959	S.O.S Pacific
1959	The Angry Silence (Actor, Producer)
1960	The League of Gentlemen
1960	Man in the Moon (Director for Allied Film Makers)
1961	Only Two Can Play
1961	All Night Long
1961	Whistle Down the Wind (Producer)
1961	Victim (Director for Allied Film Makers)
1962	The Dock Brief
1962	The Great Escape
1962	Life for Ruth (Director for Allied Film Makers)
1962	The L-Shaped Room (Producer)

1964	Séance on a Wet Afternoon
1964	The Third Secret
1964	Guns at Batasi
1965	The Flight of the Phoenix
1966	The Sand Pebbles
1967	Doctor Dolittle
1968	The Bliss of Mrs Blossom
1968	Only When I Larf
1969	The Last Grenade
1969	The Magic Christian
1969	Oh! What a Lovely War (Director)
1970	David Copperfield
1970	A Severed Head
1970	Loot
1970	10 Rillington Place
1972	Young Winston (Director)
1974	And Then There Were None
1974	Rosebud
1975	Brannigan
1975	Conduct Unbecoming
1977	A Bridge Too Far (Director)
1977	The Chess Players
1978	Magic (Director)
1979	The Human Factor
1982	Gandhi (Director)
1985	A Chorus Line (Director)
1985	Mother Theresa (Narrator)
1987	Cry Freedom (Director)
1992	Chaplin (Director)
1993	Jurassic Park
1993	Shadowlands (Director/Producer)
1994	Miracle on 34th Street
1996	E=MCsquared
1996	Hamlet
1996	In Love and War (Director/Producer)
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1998	Elizabeth
1999	Grey Owl
1999	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2002	Puckoon
2007	Closing the Ring (Director/Producer)

Attenborough at the Awards

First nominated by the Academy in 1961 for his role in Guy Green's The Angry Silence (a film Attenborough also produced), a further British Actor nomination followed in 1963 for The Dock Brief. It wasn't until 1965 though that Attenborough finally won the British Actor Award for his performances in Guns of Batasi and Seance on a Wet Afternoon.

The Academy first recognised Attenborough's directorial talents in 1970 by nominating his film Oh! What a Lovely War, but he missed out to John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy. However, at the Awards in 1983 Gandhi brought him multiple success. The film maker took home Masks in the Best Film and Direction categories while Ben Kingsley picked up Acting and Newcomer Awards and Rohini Hattangadi won for Best Supporting Actress.

Attenborough also notched up another double-win in 1998 as Cry Freedom won both the Direction and Best Film BAFTAs. His biopic of writer CS Lewis, Shadowlands, won him yet another mask in 1994 and the film received two further nominations in the Best Film and Direction Categories.

For more information on the career of Richard Attenborough see his IMDB page .