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Richard Samuel Attenborough was born on the 29th August 1923, in Cambridge, England, and was an award-winning English actor, director, producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician. In his sixty-years-long acting career, he showed his versatility both on stage and on screen. His notable roles include Roger Bartlett “Big X” in the World War II epic “The Great Escape” (1963) and John Hammond in “Jurassic Park” (1993).

Have you ever wondered how rich Richard Attenborough was at the time of his death? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Attenborough’s net worth was as high as $20 million, an amount earned through his successful career in acting and filmmaking.

Richard Attenborough was born the eldest son of Frederick Levi Attenborough, who was a scholar and academic administrator, and Mary Attenborough (nee Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council. He has two younger brothers, John and David, the latter is a famous English naturalist and broadcaster. Richard received his education first at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester, and then at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). He was a part of the RAF Film Unit during the WWII, and starred in 1943 propaganda film “Journey Together”. While he trained as a pilot, he sustained permanent ear damage, but nonetheless qualified.

Richard began his acting career on stage, at Little Theater in Leicester. He transferred to movies in 1942, only to be type-cast as a coward and petty criminal, based on his first film role in “In Which We Serve”. However, such typecasting also led him to his breakthrough role in the 1967 adaptation of Graham Green’s novel “Brighton Rock”. By this time, Attenborough had left his mark on stage, as a member of the original cast of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” (1952), which gained the status of the longest running stage production in the world. During the 1950s, he also starred in successful comedies, such as “Private’s Progress” (1956) and “I’m All Right Jack” (1959), which increased his net worth significantly.

In the 1960s, Attenborough appeared in several critically acclaimed films, such as “Guns at Batasi” (1964), for which he won the BAFTA Award, as well as “The Sand Pebbles” (1966) and “Doctor Dolittle” (1967), for which he won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor, although one of the rare Golden Globe recipients who had not been nominated for an Oscars for the same performance. The end of the ‘60s was marked by his directorial debut, in the musical “Oh! What a Lovely War” (1969), in which he directed such actors as Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, and Vanessa Redgrave.

In 1974, Attenborough starred in another Agatha Christie work, this time in the film adaptation of her most famous novel “And Then There Were None”, in the role of Judge Arthur Cannon. In 1982, Attenborough became one of only nine directors to win an Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Director’s Guild Award for the same film, achieving this honor with “Gandhi”, a biopic about the life of Mahatma Gandhi, starring Sir Ben Kingsley.

For his contribution to the cinema, Attenborough was made a life peer in 1993, receiving the title Baron Attenborough, of Richmond upon Thames. He decided to sit on the Labour party benches, since he leaned liberal in his political opinions. He was also a great patron of arts, and proponent of education, founding The Richard Attenborough Arts Centre in 1997, followed by Jane Holland Creative Centre for Learning at Waterford Kamhlaba, Swaziland, in memory of his late daughter.

In his personal life, Attenborough was married to actress Sheila Sim for sixty nine years, until his death. Together they had two daughters and a son. Their elder daughter, Jane, was killed by a tsunami in 2004, along with her mother-in-law and daughter. His younger daughter, Charlotte, is also an actress. Attenborough was a fan of Chelsea FC, serving as its director for thirteen years. He was also an avid collector of art, but he decided to sell a part of his extensive collection in 2009, generating more than $5 million dollars. He died in a nursing home in London on 24th August 2014, only five days before his 91st birthday, survived by his wife, two children, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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Richard Samuel Attenborough Quick Info

Richard Samuel Attenborough Trademarks

1. Frequently cast ‘Anthony Hopkins’
2. Making films with a moral message or a liberal political perspective
3. Calmly rich voice
4. Warm, grandfatherly persona
5. Frequently directs films about the lives of real-life individuals
6. Frequently films movies about former British colonies. Examples iclude India (Gandhi (1982)), South Africa (Cry Freedom (1987)), Canada (Grey Owl (1999))

Richard Samuel Attenborough Quotes

• I prefer fact to fiction.
• I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
• I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
• I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
• I don’t read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
• What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
• And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi (1982) and Cry Freedom (1987), there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
• David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what’s the best film you’ve made and so on and I don’t really have any hesitation that the film I’m least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands (1993).
• I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
• I’m a passionate trade unionist.
• If you’ve ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
• I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don’t come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can’t do that and I’m not in that bracket at all.
• I can’t write, I can’t paint, I don’t compose.
• Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
• Well, I think In Love and War (1996), which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn’t want to know about.
• And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
• I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody’s life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
• I just love biography, and I’m fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
• There’s nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
• Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
• I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
• In other words, if you – the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
• [on Kevin Kline] A complex character, a total chameleon – and an engaging and bewitching man. He can charm the birds off the trees, but he is also terribly shy.
• I hate and despise the pornography of violence. I don’t believe that we can totally excuse ourselves from that situation. I believe that both cinema and film to a certain extent have encouraged it.
• Diana (Diana Hawkins) and I went to see E.T. in Los Angeles shortly before all the awards and we used language, when we came out, to the extent of saying ‘we have no chance – E.T. should and will walk away with it’. Without the initial premise of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the film would be nothing. Therefore it’s a narrative film but it’s a piece of narration rather than a piece of cinema, as such. E.T. depended absolutely on the concept of cinema and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I’m very fond of, is a genius. I think E.T. is a quite extraordinary piece of cinema. [on the competition between Gandhi (1982) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) at the 1983 Academy Awards]
• I want to make a film about Tom Paine. I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that’s ever lived. He lived in the 18th century, as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called The Rights of Man – commercial over! But nobody wants to make it. Nobody. Because it’s politics, it’s period, it doesn’t have any of the things that now are supposedly our prerequisites to commercial success. I’m going to make it, provided I’ll stand on my feet, but it’s not easy, any more than Gandhi (1982) was, any more than Cry Freedom (1987) was, et cetera. Those movies are very difficult to make, and if you’re not prepared or interested in science fiction, which in terms of movies I’m not, if you’re not interested in terms of all the CGI stuff that you can now do in the cinema which is quite remarkable compared to the time that I was making movies, 30, 40, 50 years ago, then if you’re not prepared to indulge in the pornography of violence or overt sexual matter, it’s very, very difficult. It is hard to raise the money. And so in answer to your question, I don’t think it’s any easier. It wasn’t easy then and I don’t think it’s become any easier. What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. In other words, if you – the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie. And these huge blockbusters that you see have tens and hundreds of millions of pounds and dollars spent promoting them. And if you don’t have something which they believe will reach an enormous audience, then they won’t go for it. And so you fall out. And there are companies in the UK, terrific companies, young companies, who made, you know, whether it be Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) or whatever, or Trainspotting (1996) or whatever, who are having a go, but it is not any easier, in fact I think it’s even probably more difficult than it was when Forbesy (Bryan Forbes) and I were starting, which is a pity.
• At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone “darling”, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I’m safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them, too.

Richard Samuel Attenborough Important Facts

• He appeared with Saeed Jaffrey, Tom Alter and Barry John in Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977) and later directed them in Gandhi (1982).
• He appeared with Michael Byrne in Conduct Unbecoming (1975) and later directed him in A Bridge Too Far (1977).
• He appeared with Hardy Krüger in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) and later directed him in A Bridge Too Far (1977).
• He appeared with Robert Flemyng in The Outsider (1948) and The Magic Box (1951) and later directed him in Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Young Winston (1972) and Shadowlands (1993).
• He appeared with Pat Heywood, Robert Hardy and Basil Dignam in 10 Rillington Place (1971) and later directed them in Young Winston (1972).
• He appeared with Laurence Olivier in The Magic Box (1951) and David Copperfield (1970) and directed him in Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) and A Bridge Too Far (1977).
• He appeared with Candice Bergen in The Sand Pebbles (1966) and later directed her in Gandhi (1982).
• He appeared with Michael Hordern in Secret Flight (1946), The Magic Box (1951) and The Baby and the Battleship (1956) and later directed him in Gandhi (1982).
• He appeared with John Gielgud in The Human Factor (1979), Hamlet (1996) and Elizabeth (1998) and directed him in Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) and Gandhi (1982).
• He appeared with Michael Denison in The Magic Box (1951) and later directed him in Shadowlands (1993).
• He appeared with Marianne Stone in Brighton Rock (1947) and later directed her in Oh! What a Lovely War (1969).
• He appeared with Joseph Mazzello in Jurassic Park (1993) and later directed him in Shadowlands (1993).
• For his work in both The Sand Pebbles (1966) and Doctor Dolittle (1967), he’s one of only 6 actors to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture without receiving an Oscar nomination for the same performance. The other 5 are, in chronological order: Millard Mitchell in My Six Convicts (1952) , Earl Holliman in The Rainmaker (1956), Stephen Boyd in Ben-Hur (1959), Oskar Werner in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) and Richard Benjamin in The Sunshine Boys (1975).
• Of the twelve films that he directed, Magic (1978) and A Chorus Line (1985) were the only ones set in the present.
• He was 25 when he played the 14-year-old Jack Read in The Outsider (1948).
• After Joseph Mazzello played his grandson in Jurassic Park (1993), Attenborough cast him as Douglas Gresham in Shadowlands (1993), his next film as a director.
• He was the grandfather of Tom Attenborough.
• He appeared in six films with his brother-in-law Gerald Sim: The Angry Silence (1960), Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Only Two Can Play (1962), Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), The Last Grenade (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977), which Attenborough also directed.
• Steven Spielberg offered Attenborough the role of Tootles in Hook (1991) but he had to decline as he was directing Chaplin (1992). Arthur Malet was cast instead. Spielberg later cast Attenborough as John Hammond in Jurassic Park (1993), which was his first acting role since The Human Factor (1979).
• He directed his former daughter-in-law Jane Seymour in two films: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) and Young Winston (1972).
• He directed both A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Magic (1978) in exchange for obtaining financing from Joseph E. Levine for his dream project Gandhi (1982).
• Carl Foreman was so impressed with his directorial debut Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) that he offered him the opportunity to both direct Young Winston (1972) and play Lord Randolph Churchill in the film. He declined the latter offer.
• Of the twelve films that he directed, Magic (1978), A Chorus Line (1985) and Closing the Ring (2007) were the only ones which were not based on real events.
• He appeared in three films with his wife Sheila Sim: Dancing with Crime (1947), The Outsider (1948) and The Magic Box (1951).
• He directed Edward Fox and Colin Farrell in three films: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Gandhi (1982).
• He directed Anthony Hopkins in five films: Young Winston (1972), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Magic (1978), Chaplin (1992) and Shadowlands (1993).
• In an AFI poll, he described Charles Chaplin’s film The Gold Rush (1925) as his favourite film.
• He appeared in five films with John Mills: In Which We Serve (1942), Operation Disaster (1950), The Baby and the Battleship (1956), Dunkirk (1958) and Hamlet (1996). He also directed him in three films: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Young Winston (1972) and Gandhi (1982).
• He died only thirteen days after his Hamlet (1996) co-star Robin Williams.
• He directed his brother-in-law Gerald Sim in seven films: Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Young Winston (1972), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Gandhi (1982), Cry Freedom (1987), Chaplin (1992) and Shadowlands (1993).
• Laurence Olivier offered Attenborough the role of one of the murderers in Richard III (1955) but he was unavailable.
• He was considered for the roles of Dr. Hans Fallada, Dr. Bukovsky, Sir Percy Heseltine and Dr. Armstrong in Lifeforce (1985).
• He died in Denville Hall care home in Northwood, London, on August 23, 2014, at lunchtime, five days before 91st birthday. He moved into the care home because of his failing health, in March 2013. His wife, Sheila, had been based there since June 2012.
• He made a cameo appearance as a lunatic wearing glasses in A Bridge Too Far (1977). This was his only acting role in a film that he directed.
• To date, he is the only performer to win two Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actor but not even be nominated for a corresponding Oscar. [2014]
• Attended Princess Diana’s funeral, with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
• He was a close friend of Diana, Princess of Wales, and he coached her privately to help her become more confident about speaking in public in the early years of her marriage. She always called him “Dickie”.
• According to his brother David Attenborough, Before his death, Richard was no longer able to walk and gets about in a wheelchair. However, he still had all his other faculties about him, and was still as gregarious as ever.
• Before entrusting post-production on Jurassic Park (1993) to his friend George Lucas, Steven Spielberg thought he would have to divide his time between this and directing Schindler’s List (1993). Spielberg at one point asked Attenborough, who had just appeared in Jurassic Park (1993), to serve as assistant director on Schindler’s List (1993). This would have reunited Attenborough with Ben Kingsley, whom he directed in Gandhi (1982), which defeated E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) for Best Picture and Best Director. Attenborough’s services turned out to be unnecessary, but he is not without his own connection to the material. While Attenborough is not himself Jewish, he does have two Jewish sisters: after World War II, his parents adopted two little girls whose parents had died in the Holocaust.
• Father-in-law of Karen Lewis and Graham Sinclair.
• The last veteran of World War II to win an Oscar for Best Director.
• Is one of 9 directors to win the Golden Globe, Director’s Guild, BAFTA, and Oscar for the same movie, winning for Gandhi (1982). The other directors to achieve this are Mike Nichols for The Graduate (1967), Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Oliver Stone for Platoon (1986), Steven Spielberg for Schindler’s List (1993), Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005), Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity (2013), and Alejandro G. Iñárritu for The Revenant (2015).
• Was hospitalised in August 2008 when his heart stopped beating for a time, and again in December 2008 when he went into a coma for several days after suffering a fall.
• Along with Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner and Robert Redford one of six actors to win an Academy Award for “Best Director”.
• He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.
• In 2008 the UK Regional Critics’ Film Awards were renamed The Richard Attenborough Film Awards, in his honour.
• Originally considered for the role of Harry in The Ladykillers (1955) by director Alexander Mackendrick. The role eventually went to Peter Sellers.
• Received an honorary doctorate from Dickinson College, Pennsylvania.
• 1978: Officially retired from acting. He agreed to make a return to acting in Jurassic Park (1993), saying he was a huge admirer of Steven Spielberg and always felt bad that Gandhi (1982) had won the best picture award instead of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg had previously wanted to cast him as Tootles in Hook (1991), however, he’d been busy directing Chaplin (1992) at the time.
• Directed 4 different performers in Oscar-nominated performances: Ben Kingsley, Denzel Washington, Robert Downey Jr. and Debra Winger. Kingsley won an Oscar for his performance in Gandhi (1982).
• Godfather of Emma Forbes.
• 5/11/05: Gave a reading at a national British memorial service for the victims of the South Asian tsunami. He lost three members of his family in the tragedy.
• He was a close friend of the English actor Sir John Mills for many years, and gave the eulogy at his funeral in April 2005.
• 9/05: Attended the funeral of British film producer Lord John Brabourne.
• Has been involved in some form with the University of Sussex since 1970; he was elected Chancellor of the University on March 20, 1998, replacing the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, who had held that post since 1985.
• 12/26/04: Members of his family – daughter Jane, son-in-law Michael Holland, grandchildren Sam, Lucy and Alice and Michael’s mother Jane – were holidaying in Phuket, Thailand, when the area was hit by the South Asian tsunami on Boxing Day 2004. Lord Attenborough lost his daughter, her mother-in-law and his 14-year-old granddaughter Lucy in the tragedy. His elder granddaughter, 17-year-old Alice, was seriously injured and his son-in-law and grandson survived unscathed.
• Steven Spielberg has named him as an influence.
• Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. “World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985”. Pages 78-84. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
• Often casts Anthony Hopkins.
• Father, with Sheila Sim of son, director Michael Attenborough, and daughters, Jane Attenborough and actress Charlotte Attenborough.
• He was trained at RADA (The Royal Acadamy of Dramatic Arts), where he later became Chairman.
• 2003: Was awarded the Patricia Rothermere Award for his lifelong service to theatre at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
• 2003: Was made President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), a role that had been vacant since the death of Princess Diana in 1997.
• Life President of Chelsea Football Club.
• Former father-in-law of actress Jane Seymour.
• Brother-in-law of actor Gerald Sim
• 12/02: Said he would go back on his claim to never appear in front of the camera again for one role only: that of Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.
• Created an honorary D.Litt of the Universities of Leicester, Kent and Sussex in 1970, 1981 and 1987 respectively.
• 1993: Fellow of King’s College, London.
• 1990: Freeman of the City of Leicester, England.
• 1971-94: Vice-president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
• 2002-: Third president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
• He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1967 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, made a Knight Bachelor in the 1976 Queen’s New Year Honours List and a life peer in the 1993 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
• Has two brothers, naturalist/presenter David Attenborough, and John Attenborough. Also, during World War Two, his parents adopted two German Jewish girls, who had been brought to Britain as part of the Kindertransport.
• 1952: Was the first to star in Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap”, now the longest-running play in the world.
• 2004: 57 years after he starred in Brighton Rock (1947), his son Michael Attenborough directed a musical version of Graham Greene’s novel.
• He reprised his Jurassic Park (1993) character, John Hammond, for Universal Studio’s Jurassic Park: The Ride attraction. He appears in a short film at the beginning of the ride telling you that the NEW Jurassic Park (the ride you’re on) is completely safe, and that there will never be another incident like that at Costa Rica in 1993.
• Philosophies include believing in content as opposed to style and sincerity rather than intelligence.
• It was his life ambition to direct Gandhi (1982).

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