History Creator / RichardAttenborough

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As his directing career took off, Attenborough spent less time in front of the camera, and had no film acting roles at all in the 1980s and early 1990s. (With the exception of a CreatorCameo in ''A Bridge Too Far'', he never acted in any of the films he directed). This changed when he accepted the role of John Hammond in ''Film/JurassicPark'' (1993), and was followed by several more films in which he played grandfatherly or elder-statesman types.

* ''Film/JurassicPark'' (1993)

* EpicMovie: ''Gandhi'', ''Chaplin'', and ''A Bridge Too Far'' in particular were big sweeping epics with long run times and huge casts.

* AllStarCast: His epic movies ''Gandhi'', ''A Bridge Too Far'', and ''Chaplin'' all had huge casts with big stars, often playing small parts or cameos. Attenborough got Creator/DanAckroyd and Creator/MarisaTomei to show up for basically one scene in ''Chaplin'', as Chaplin's producer Mack Sennett and his (unwilling) co-star Marisa Tomei as Creator/MabelNormand.

* AllStarCast: His epic movies ''Gandhi'', ''A Bridge Too Far'', and ''Chaplin'' all had huge casts with big stars, often playing small parts or cameos. Attenborough got Creator/DanAkroyd and Creator/MarisaTomei to show up for basically one scene in ''Chaplin'', as Chaplin's producer Mack Sennett and his (unwilling) co-star Marisa Tomei as Creator/MabelNormand.

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Richard Samuel Attenborough[[note]][[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Kt, CBE, FRSA]][[/note]] (29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was a British actor and director. He was knighted in 1976, and made a life peer, with the title of [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Baron Attenborough of Richmond upon Thames, in 1993. He also served in the Royal Air Force during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

Richard Samuel Attenborough[[note]][[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Kt, CBE, FRSA]][[/note]] (29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was a British actor and director. He was knighted in 1976, and made a life peer, with the title of [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Baron]] Attenborough, in 1993. He also served in the Royal Air Force during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

On stage he was one of the original cast members of ''Theatre/TheMousetrap'', and played Pinkie Brown in the 1944 theatre adaptation of ''Literature/BrightonRock''; the latter became his breakout film role when the play was adapted to film in 1947, and was followed by many film roles as criminals and wrong 'uns of various stripes. His first major Hollywood film was ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' (1963), in which he played Bartlett, the head of the escape committee.

He made his directorial debut with ''Film/OhWhatALovelyWar'' in 1969. One of his most famous films is ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'' (1982), which he worked for over a decade to get made, and which won him both the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward and the Golden Globe.

As his directing took off, he spent less time in front of the camera, and had no film acting roles at all in the 1980s and early 1990s. (With the exception of a CreatorCameo in ''A Bridge Too Far'', he never acted in any of the films he directed). This changed when he accepted the role of John Hammond in ''Film/JurassicPark'' (1993), followed by several more roles of a grandfatherly or elder statesman type.

He was the elder brother of Creator/DavidAttenborough, the famous maker of nature documentaries.

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Richard Samuel Attenborough (29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014) was a British actor and director. He was knighted in 1976, and made a life peer, with the title of [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Baron]] Attenborough, in 1993. He also served in the Royal Air Force during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.