I remember him from Jurassic park but never knew who he was. His younger brother David is more familiar to me do to his narration of nature films over the years.
Enjoyed him in Jurassic Park and The Great Escape, and as the director of Magic and Shadowlands both with Anthony Hopkins. I think he also had at least an adult child killed in the Christmas tsunami if I’m remembering correctly. I’ll have to look that up. Rest in Peace to him.
I think he and James Garner were the last of the main Great Escape cast members to pass away, both this year.
RIP
Richard Attenborough: ‘I can’t bear to celebrate Christmas since my family’s tsunami tragedy’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-504359/Richard-Attenborough-I-bear-celebrate-Christmas-familys-tsunami-tragedy.html
Last updated at 09:00 24 December 2007
Richard Attenborough has spoken movingly of how he can’t bear to celebrate Christmas because of the devastating loss of his daughter and granddaughter in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
The Great Escape completed. RIP Sir Richard.
I most remember him from The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles, and A Matter of Life and Death as an actor. As a director, i think of Young Winston and Gandhi.
Quite a body of work.. For a mortal. :-)
RIP SiR Richard
My favorite Attenborough film is his first, 1942’s “In Which They Serve,” with Noel Coward and John Mills. Attenborough is a sailor who deserts his battle station during an engagement, but later redeems himself during another fight. Great WWII story and acting, both at sea and on the home front.
RIP, Big X.
Great actor. Rest in peace, sir.
Liked him in the original Flight of the Phoenix.
Liked him in the original Flight of the Phoenix.
May God be with you Richard Attenborough...hope you were a Christian.
Nice to see the article mentioning Brighton Rock, great film, great performance and one of the three best British crime/gangster films of all time.
As a Brit, I can list a long list of great films he was in, some not well known in the US: Dunkirk, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Sea of Sand, Guns at Batasi, The League of Gentlemen....to name just a few.
RIP my Lord Attenborough.