Home / Discover / People

Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough, in full Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames was known for his charity works, as well as his work as an actor, director and producer. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Bartlett 'Big X' in The Great Escape and as Professor John Hammond in the Jurassic Park franchise.

Aliases
  • Richard Samuel Attenborough
  • Baron Attenborough
  • Lord Richard Attenborough
  • Sir Richard Attenborough
English
Filmography

And the Winner Isn't

2017
as Himself (archive footage)

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

2014
as Himself

The Greatest Footie Ads Ever

2012
as Richard Attenborough

David Lean in Close-Up

2009
as Richard Attenborough

Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool

2005
as Himself - Interviewee

Within the Way Without

2004
as (voice)

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

2003
as Himself

Forever Ealing

2002
as Self - Interviewee

Puckoon

2002
as Writer-Director

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

2001

Beyond Jurassic Park

2001
as Himself

The Railway Children

2000
as The Old Gentleman

Light Keeps Me Company

2000
as Himself - Interviewee

Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain

2000
as Richard Attenborough

Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

2000
as Richard Attenborough

The Children Who Cheated the Nazis

2000
as Narrator

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

1999
as Jacob

Elizabeth

1998
as Sir William Cecil

Diana

1998
as Richard Attenborough

Making the 'Lost World'

1997
as Richard Attenborough

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

1997
as John Hammond

Hamlet

1996
as English Ambassador

In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid

1994
as Richard Attenborough

Miracle on 34th Street

1994
as Kris Kringle

A Century of Cinema

1994
as Richard Attenborough

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

1993
as Richard Attenborough

Jurassic Park

1993
as John Hammond

Mother Teresa

1986
as Narrator (voice)

Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios

1986
as Richard Attenborough

The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio

1985
as Self - Interviewee

James Bond: The First 21 Years

1983
as Himself

The Human Factor

1979
as Colonel John Daintry

The Chess Players

1977
as General Outram

Brannigan

1975
as Cmdr. Charles Swann

Conduct Unbecoming

1975
as Maggiore Lionel E. Roach

Rosebud

1975
as Edward Sloat

Ten Little Indians

1974
as Judge Arthur Cannon

10 Rillington Place

1971
as John Christie

A Severed Head

1970
as Palmer Anderson

The Last Grenade

1970
as Gen. Charles Whiteley

Loot

1970
as Inspector Truscott

Will the Real Mr. Sellers...

1969
as Richard Attenborough

The Magic Christian

1969
as Oxford Coach

David Copperfield

1969
as Mr. Tungay

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

1968
as Robert Blossom

Only When I Larf

1968
as Silas

Doctor Dolittle

1967
as Albert Blossom

The Sand Pebbles

1966
as Frenchy Burgoyne

The Flight of the Phoenix

1965
as Lew Moran

Guns at Batasi

1964
as Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

1964
as Bill Savage

The Third Secret

1964
as Alfred Price-Gorham

The Great Escape

1963
as Roger Bartlett

Only Two Can Play

1962
as Gareth L. Probert

All Night Long

1962
as Rod Hamilton

Trial and Error

1962
as Herbert Fowle

The Angry Silence

1960
as Tom Curtis

The League of Gentlemen

1960
as Lexy

SOS Pacific

1959
as Whitey Mullen

I'm All Right Jack

1959
as Sidney De Vere Cox

Danger Within

1959
as Capt. 'Bunter' Phillips

Jet Storm

1959
as Ernest Tilley

The Man Upstairs

1958
as The Man Upstairs

Sea of Sand

1958
as Brody

Dunkirk

1958
as John Holden

The Scamp

1957
as Stephen Leigh

The Baby and the Battleship

1957
as Knocker White

Private's Progress

1956
as Pvt. Percival Henry Cox

The Ship That Died of Shame

1955
as George Hoskins

Eight O'Clock Walk

1954
as Thomas Leslie Manning

Gift Horse

1952
as Dripper Daniels

Father's Doing Fine

1952
as Dougall

Hell Is Sold Out

1951
as Pierre Bonnet

The Magic Box

1951
as Jack Carter

Morning Departure

1950
as Stoker Snipe

The Lost People

1949
as Jan

Boys in Brown

1949
as Jackie Knowles

The Guinea Pig

1948
as Jack Read

London Belongs to Me

1948
as Percy Boon

Dancing with Crime

1947
as Ted Peters

Brighton Rock

1947
as Pinkie Brown

The Man Within

1947
as Francis Andrews

School for Secrets

1946
as Jack Arnold

A Matter of Life and Death

1946
as An English Pilot

Journey Together

1945
as David Wilton

The Hundred Pound Window

1944
as Tommy Draper

Schweik's New Adventures

1943
as Railway worker

In Which We Serve

1942
as Young Stoker

Director

Movie Closing the Ring 2007
Movie Grey Owl 1999
Movie In Love and War 1996
Movie Shadowlands 1993
Movie Chaplin 1992
Movie Cry Freedom 1987
Movie A Chorus Line 1985
Movie Gandhi 1982
Movie Magic 1978
Movie A Bridge Too Far 1977
Movie Young Winston 1972
Movie Oh! What a Lovely War 1969

Producer

Movie Shadowlands 1993
Movie Chaplin 1992
Movie Cry Freedom 1987
Movie Gandhi 1982
Movie Oh! What a Lovely War 1969
Movie Seance on a Wet Afternoon 1964
Movie The L-Shaped Room 1962
Movie Whistle Down the Wind 1961

Guest Star

Episode BBC Documentaries
The Kindertransport Story 		2009
Episode RiffTrax
Jurassic Park 		2008
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Richard Attenborough 		1993
Episode This is Your Life (UK)
Peter Saunders 		1992
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Lana Cantrell, Jill Ireland 		1972
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Lauren Bacall, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Richard Attenborough 		1971
Episode Frost on Sunday
Frost at the London Palladium for the British Film and Television Awards 		1970
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Redd Foxx, Richard Attenborough, Patty Duke, James J. Kilpatrick 		1969
Episode This is Your Life (UK)
Richard Attenborough 		1962