Richard Attenborough

1923–2014 | British actor, producer, director

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

Died

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.

- Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
- Thursday at 2.50am on Sony Movies Classic
- Thursday at 3.50am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- 8^th February at 2.50am on Sony Movies Classic
- 8^th February at 3.50am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- In an officers’ mess in India in the 1890s, a cadet is accused of assault on a lady, but the real culprit is a paranoiac who has taken to pig-sticking in quite the wrong way.
- Gandhi (1982)
- Today at 9.30am on Sony Movies Classic
- Today at 10.30am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- Today at 10.30am on Sony Movies Classic
- Today at 11.30am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
- The life of the young Indian advocate who became a revolutionary, a saint and a martyr.
- The Scamp (1957)
- Tuesday at 11.30am on Talking Pictures
- A couple decide to adopt a lovable but mischievous boy.