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Acting

Richard Attenborough

Career: Active from 1943 to 2007, busiest in 1959 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 47
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: A Matter of Life and Death
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 64 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Richard Attenborough Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.3, average 5.4
Pop Culture
1.3, average 2.2
Cringe Humor
1.5, average 2.2
Coming of Age
2.4, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 10
Biographical Drama 8
Psychological Thriller 6
Social Commentary 5
Intrigue 5
Political Intrigue 5
Mystery 4
Character Study 4
Nostalgic 4
Ensemble Cast 4
Satirical 3
Historical Account 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

89

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

7 titles · average score 60

Closing the Ring

46

Producer, Director

British Film Forever

TV show

Within the Way Without

as (voice)

Puckoon

58

as Writer/Director

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

67

TV show · as Magog

The Children Who Cheated the Nazis

as Narrator

The Railway Children

71

as The Old Gentleman

1990s

11 titles · average score 67

Grey Owl

37

Producer, Director

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

78

as Jacob

Elizabeth

77

as Sir William Cecil

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

60

as John Hammond

In Love and War

33

Producer, Director

Hamlet

86

as English Ambassador

E=MC²

as The Visitor

Miracle on 34th Street

62

as Kris Kringle

Jurassic Park

82

as Hammond

Shadowlands

88

Producer, Director

Chaplin

65

Director, Producer

1980s

5 titles · average score 69

Cry Freedom

70

Producer, Director

Mother Teresa

as Narrator (voice)

A Chorus Line

55

Director

TV show

Gandhi

82

Producer, Director

1970s

14 titles · average score 58

The Human Factor

50

as Colonel John Daintry

Magic

68

Director

The South Bank Show

63

TV show

A Bridge Too Far

68

as Lunatic with Glasses (uncredited)

Brannigan

52

as Cmdr. Charles Swann

Rosebud

42

as Edward Sloat

Conduct Unbecoming

58

as Major Lionel E. Roach

And Then There Were None

51

as Judge Arthur Cannon

Young Winston

57

Director

10 Rillington Place

70

as John Christie

A Severed Head

53

as Palmer Anderson

Loot

48

as Inspector Truscott

1960s

19 titles · average score 68

Oh! What a Lovely War

72

Producer, Director

David Copperfield

48

as Mr. Tungay

Only When I Larf

65

as Silas

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

56

as Robert Blossom

Doctor Dolittle

44

as Albert Blossom

The Sand Pebbles

81

as Frenchy Burgoyne

The Flight of the Phoenix

80

as Lew Moran

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

79

as Bill

Guns at Batasi

73

as Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale

The Third Secret

63

as Alfred Price-Gorham

The Great Escape

87

as Bartlett 'Big X'

The Angry Silence

76

as Tom Curtis

1950s

19 titles · average score 64

Jet Storm

67

as Ernest Tilley

Dunkirk

71

as John Holden

Sea of Sand

63

as Brody

The Man Upstairs

64

as Peter Watson

Brothers in Law

67

as Henry Marshall

Private's Progress

69

as Pvt. Percival Henry Cox

The Baby and the Battleship

59

as Knocker White

The Ship That Died of Shame

66

as George Hoskins

Eight O'Clock Walk

59

as Thomas Leslie Manning

Gift Horse

54

as Dripper Daniels

Hell Is Sold Out

59

as Pierre Bonnet

Morning Departure

63

as Stoker Snipe

1940s

14 titles · average score 70

Boys in Brown

61

as Jackie Knowles

The Lost People

as Jan

Brighton Rock

85

as Pinkie Brown

London Belongs to Me

52

as Percy Boon

The Guinea Pig

74

as Jack Read

Dancing with Crime

63

as Ted Peters

The Man Within

as Francis Andrews

A Matter of Life and Death

90

as An English Pilot

Journey Together

65

as David Wilton

The True Glory

65

as Commentator

The Hundred Pound Window

as Tommy Draper

Svejk Wrecks Germany

as Railway worker