Richard Attenborough

British actor, director, producer (1923–2014) | A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Dunkirk (1958), The Guinea Pig (1948)

British character actor who escaped from early typecasting as a young coward, revealed an ambitious range of characterisations, and went on to produce and direct

Richard Attenborough became a life peer in 1993. Married actress Sheila Sim in 1945.

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Born

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Born

Richard Attenborough was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire on 29^th August, 1923.
Died

Richard Attenborough died in Denville Hall, 62 Duck’s Hill Rd, Northwood, London on 24^th August, 2014, aged 90.

- The Sand Pebbles (1966)
- Tomorrow at 3.50pm on Sony Movies Action
- Tomorrow at 4.50pm on Sony Movies Action
- 27^th January at 3.40pm on Sony Movies Action
- 27^th January at 4.40pm on Sony Movies Action
- In 1926, an American gunboat patrolling the Yangtze river gets involved with Chinese warlords.
- Gandhi (1982)
- Monday at 2pm on Sky Cinema Greats HD
- 28^th January at 2.50pm on Sky Cinema Select HD
- 29^th January at 7.15am on Sky Cinema Select HD
- The life of the young Indian advocate who became a revolutionary, a saint and a martyr.