The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Emmanuelle Arsan, Mako
Director: Robert Wise
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Adventure | Drama
After an oil company plane crashes in the Sahara, the survivors are buoyed with hope by one of the passengers, an airplane designer who plans for them to build a flyable plane from the wreckage.
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen
Director: Robert Aldrich
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Richard Attenborough, Vince Vaughn
Director: Steven Spielberg
Young Winston (1972)
Biography | Drama | War
Complex family relationships, as well as a combat experience, form the personality of the future world-known politician.
Starring: Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Richard Attenborough
The Third Secret (1964)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
The first secret is what we don't tell people, the second secret is what we don't tell ourselves, and the third secret is the truth. The death of a psychologist is investigated by his teenage daughter and a former patient.
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin, Alan Webb
Director: Charles Crichton
Cry Freedom (1987)
Biography | Drama | History
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton, Josette Simon, Zakes Mokae, Garrick Hagon
Director: Richard Attenborough
Gandhi (1982)
Biography | Drama | History
Ben Kingsley stars as Mahatma Gandhi, who rose from small-time lawyer to India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule in India.
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Director: Richard Attenborough
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Based on Ludovic Kennedy's investigative book, this is the true and horrifying story of serial killer John Christie, chillingly played by Richard Attenborough. When Timothy Evans and his wife move into Christie's tiny flat, they do not know that they are now part of the latest plan Christie has hatched to lure yet another woman to her death and pin the blame on Evans, who is soon afterwards hanged. It is only when fate exposes the crimes of the death-house at 10 Rillington Place in London, that Christie is brought to justice and all of England rethinks its views of the death penalty.
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black, Phyllis MacMahon
Director: Richard Fleischer
Grey Owl (1999)
Biography | Drama | Western
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper turned conservationist who claimed to be a Native American.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Nathaniel Arcand, David Fox, Stephanie Cole, Renée Asherson, Graham Greene
Director: Richard Attenborough
Guns at Batasi (1964)
Drama
Regimental Sergeant-Major Lauderdale is a spit-and-polish, by-the-book disciplinarian, who seems like a 19th Century anachronism in a sleepy peacetime African outpost of the modern British Commonwealth. He is ridiculed behind his back by his subordinate NCO's and must play host to a liberal female MP making a tour of the base. However, when an ambitious African officer, who happens to be a protege of the MP's, initiates a coup d'etat against Captain Abraham, the lawful African commandant, the resourceful RSM uses all his military training to arm his men despite being under house arrest and rescue the wounded commandant from a certain firing squad. When Lt. Boniface, the leader of the mutiny surrounds the sergeants mess with two Bofors guns, it looks like Lauderdale will have to surrender unless he again disobeys orders and takes the initiative.
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow, Cecil Parker
Director: John Guillermin
The Human Factor (1979)
Drama | Thriller
When Arthur Davis, a junior bachelor in the British secret service's African section, is seen taking a file with him -to meet his girlfriend Cynthia- the brass fears he may be the leak to Moskow, and allows Dr. Percival to terminate the 'risk factor' by poisoning to avoid a scandal. In fact Davis's desk chief, Maurice Castle, is the double agent since the South African communists helped him smuggle out his black lover Sarah M., meanwhile his wife and mother of schoolboy Sam, to force him to cooperate with the Apartheid government. When Cornelius Muller, the South African official who failed to get him in Pretoria's power, visits London for the anti-communist operation Uncle Remus, he points out Castle still is the natural suspect…
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Robert Morley, Nicol Williamson
Director: Otto Preminger
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough
Director: Basil Dearden
The Magic Christian (1969)
Comedy
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless boy, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone–and anything–can be bought with money.
Starring: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Attenborough, Leonard Frey
Director: Joseph McGrath
The Great Escape (1963)
Adventure | Drama | History | Thriller | War
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft North, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. Based on a true story.
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence
Director: John Sturges
Chaplin (1992)
Biography | Drama
A dramatized biography of the highs and lows in the life of one of the foremost comic geniuses the silver screen has ever known. With the use of flashback, an elderly Chaplin (Downey Jr.) discusses his autobiography with his editor (Hopkins) who urges him to be more vulnerable and emotionally honest with his memoirs. Together, they journey through Chaplin's poverty-stricken childhood, closest friendships, many marriages, and his ingenious invention of "The Little Tramp," as well as J. Edgar Hoover's merciless pursuit, Chaplin's shocking exile to Switzerland and his triumphant return to Hollywood.
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins, Milla Jovovich
Director: Richard Attenborough
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Action | Drama | History | War
Sir Richard Attenborough directs Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins and Robert Redford in this gripping and controversial tale about a daring WWII military operation.
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould
Director: Richard Attenborough
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet such exotic creatures as the Pushme-Pullyu and the Giant Moon Moth. This musical is the source of the hit song, "If I Could Talk To The Animals."
Starring: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Richard Attenborough, Anthony Newley, Peter Bull
Director: Richard Fleischer
Magic (1978)
Drama | Horror | Romance | Thriller
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith
Director: Richard Attenborough
Elizabeth (1998)
Biography | Drama | History
This is the England of 1554, but the veneer of traditional English composure and dignity has been stripped away. The British populace is in turmoil. Fearing a challenge to her throne, Queen Mary I imprisons her half-sister, Princess Elizabeth Tudor (The daughter of King Henry VII and Anne Boleyn), in the Tower of London. But, in 1558, when "Bloody Mary" dies, Elizabeth is swept onto the throne and, at the age of 25, is crowned Queen of England. In order to survive, let alone to rule, Elizabeth must suss out hidden agendas: the Court is rife with intrigue; military strategists are risking the lives of young Englishmen; religious leaders at home and abroad place no faith in her; and the man she loves might not be worthy of her trust. The male-dominated ruling class would appear to have the advantage, but intelligent Elizabeth will deploy whatever means necessary to keep, or take what's rightfully hers.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, John Gielgud, Richard Attenborough
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Jurassic Park (1993)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero
Director: Steven Spielberg
