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Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born 29 August 1923) is an English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He is the elder brother of naturalist and wildlife filmmaker Sir David...
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10 Rillington Place
10 Rillington Place, Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, London, was the site of the crimes of John Reginald Halliday Christie, one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. The case against Christie was particularly controversial because of his...
A Matter of Life and Death
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) is a romantic fantasy film set in the Second World War by the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was originally released in U.S. under the title Stairway to Heaven,...
Brannigan
Brannigan is a 1975 British action film set in London starring John Wayne and Richard Attenborough, directed by Douglas Hickox. It tells the story of a Chicago detective sent to Britain to organize the extradition of an American mobster (John Vernon...
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle is a 1967 musical film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on the series of childrens books by Hugh Lofting, which tells the story of a doctor, Doctor Dolittle, who learns from his pet parrot Polynesia to talk to animals. The film...
Elizabeth
Elizabeth is a 1998 film loosely based on the early reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The film was written by Michael Hirst and directed by Shekhar Kapur. It stars Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Christopher Eccleston, and...
Hamlet
Hamlet is a 1996 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play of the same name, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the title role as Prince Hamlet. It is set in the 19th century, and uses Blenheim Palace for exterior...
I'm All Right Jack
I'm All Right Jack is a British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting released in 1959 as a sequel to their 1956 film Private's Progress. Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas and Miles Malleson all...
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park is a 1993 science fiction thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. The film centers on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park...
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Private's Progress
Private's Progress is a British comedy film of 1956, based on the novel by Alan Hackney. It was directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting, from a script by John Boulting and Frank Harvey.
The action takes place during World War II and follows...
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a 1964 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the novel by Mark McShane in which an unstable medium convinces her husband to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and collect the ransom. The...
The Angry Silence
The Angry Silence is a 1960 British drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough. Screenwriter Bryan Forbes won a BAFTA Award and an Oscar nomination for his contribution.
The story is about a factory worker who refuses to take...
The Great Escape
The Great Escape is a 1963 film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II. It is based on the book The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill, which is a novelization of the true story of a mass escape from Stalag...
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (also known as Jurassic Park 2 and The Lost World) is a 1997 science fiction thriller film, directed by Steven Spielberg. The film was produced by Bonnie Curtis, Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen and Colin Wilson. The...
The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles a 1966 film directed by Robert Wise, is a period war story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy Machinist Mate sailor aboard the USS San Pablo gunboat on "show the flag" river patrols in 1920s China.
The Sand Pebbles features...
All Night Long
All Night Long is a 1962 British film directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Paul Harris, Keith Michell, Richard Attenborough and Betsy Blair. The story, written by Nel King and Paul Jarrico, writing under the name...
Ten Little Indians
Ten Little Indians (a.k.a. And Then There Were None) is a 1974 remake of Agatha Christie's classic novel. Two previous theatrical adaptations were released in 1945 and 1965, and a made-for-television version was broadcast in 1959. This was the...
Guns at Batasi
Guns at Batasi (1964) is a film set at a military outpost during the last days of the British Empire in East Africa.
The film, which is based on the novel The Siege of Battersea by Robert Holles, stars Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora...
London Belongs to Me
London Belongs to Me (also known as Dulcimer Street) is a 1948 British film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim. It was based on the novel of the same name by Norman Collins. The same story was made into a...
The Ship That Died of Shame
The Ship That Died of Shame is a black-and-white 1955 Ealing Studios crime film starring George Baker, Richard Attenborough and Bill Owen.
It is based on a story written by Nicholas Monsarrat (better known as the author of The Cruel Sea). It was...
Sea of Sand
Sea of Sand is a 1958 war film starring Michael Craig, John Gregson and Richard Attenborough. Other actors featured include Barry Foster, Vincent Ball, Harold Goodwin, Ray McAnally and Percy Herbert.
Directed by Guy Green and written by Robert...
Dunkirk
Dunkirk is a World War II film made in 1958, starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee.
The film relates the story of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of surrounded English and French troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. It does so...
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor. The plot involves the crash of a transport aircraft in the middle of a desert and the survivors' desperate attempt to save themselves. It was the basis for a 1965 and later 2004 film...
Danger Within
Danger Within is a 1959 British war film set in a prisoner of war camp in northern Italy during the summer of 1943.
After a clever escape plan fails, the escape committee, led by Lieutenant Colonel David Baird (Richard Todd) suspects that there is...
The League of Gentlemen
The League of Gentlemen (1960) is a British crime film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick and Richard Attenborough. It was based on the 1958 novel by John Boland and adapted by Bryan Forbes, who also starred in the...
Brothers in Law
Brothers in Law was a 1955 comedy book by Henry Cecil, himself a County Court judge, about Roger Thursby — a young barrister — experiencing his first year in chambers. In 1957 the book was made into a film starring Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas...
The Guinea Pig
The Guinea Pig is a 1948 British film by Pilgrim Pictures, also known as The Outsider in the United States. The film is adapted from the 1946 play of the same name by Warren Chetham-Strode.
The "guinea pig" is 14-year old Jack Read (played by 25...
Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock is a 1947 British drama film directed by John Boulting based on the novel of the same name by Graham Greene. The film is considered one of the most successful British films noir. In the United States, the film was released under the...
Rosebud
Rosebud is a 1975 motion picture directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, and Peter Lawford.
Larry Martin (O'Toole) is a Newsweek reporter, secretly working for the CIA. He is tasked, along with Israeli...
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath. The screenplay by Alec Coppel and Denis Norden was adapted from a play by Coppel that was based on a short story by Josef Shaftel, who served as the film's producer....
Jet Storm
Jet Storm is a 1959 thriller where Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and...
Gift Horse
Gift Horse (AKA The Gift Horse or Glory At Sea) is a 1952 British film starring Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough.
A disgraced former Commander re-enlists into the Royal Navy during World War II. He forms the crew of his run-down ship, one of...
Conduct Unbecoming
Conduct Unbecoming is a 1975 British drama film, an adaptation of the Barry England play Conduct Unbecoming first staged in 1969. It was directed by Michael Anderson and starred an ensemble cast of actors.
Two young British officers arrive to join a...
The Flight of the Phoenix
The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1965 film based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Elleston Trevor.
The film was directed by Robert Aldrich, and stars James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Hardy Krüger, George Kennedy,...
Miracle on 34th Street
Miracle on 34th Street is a 1994 film directed by Les Mayfield. It is the fourth remake of the original 1947 film. The film was released by 20th Century Fox.
When the Cole's Santa Claus gets drunk before taking part in the Thanksgiving parade, Dorey...
The Magic Christian
The Magic Christian is a 1969 film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with noteworthy appearances by John Cleese, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski. It was loosely adapted from...
The Human Factor
The Human Factor is a 1979 British thriller film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Richard Attenborough, Derek Jacobi and John Gielgud. It is based on the novel The Human Factor by Graham Greene, with the screenplay written by Tom Stoppard. ...
Loot
Loot is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Silvio Narizzano. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
SOS Pacific
SOS Pacific is a 1959 drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough and Pier Angeli.
The pilot of a flying boat, along with five passengers, has to ditch his plane in a thunder storm. The plane ditches in the Pacific near an...
Ironclad
Ironclad is an upcoming 2010 American film, written and directed by Jonathan English. The first screenplay for the film is credited to Stephen McDool with a co-screenplay credit to Erick Kastel. The film chronicles the siege of Rochester Castle by...
Boys in Brown
Boys in Brown is a 1949 British drama film directed by Montgomery Tully. Depicting life in a borstal for young offenders, it starred Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde and Jimmy Hanley.
10 Rillington Place
10 Rillington Place is a 1971 British crime drama film starring Richard Attenborough, John Hurt and Judy Geeson adapted by Clive Exton from the book Ten Rillington Place by Ludovic Kennedy.
It dramatises the case of British serial killer John...
