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14 unusual facts about Richard Attenborough


A Severed Head

The novel was also made into a 1970 film starring Claire Bloom, Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough and Ian Holm.

Alun D. Pughe

His left field sensibilities and hunger for storytelling attracted him to Sir Richard Attenborough's panel of judges in May 2008 where he won Best Short Film (Over 10 mins).

Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

This incident has also been portrayed in the film Gandhi by Sir Richard Attenborough.

Barrie Chase

She played Farida in the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix (starring James Stewart and Richard Attenborough), in a dream sequence.

Crane shot

The closing take of Richard Attenborough's film version of Oh! What a Lovely War which begins on a single war grave, gradually pulling backward to reveal hundreds of identical crosses.

Dolly Thakore

Thakore began her film career as casting director and unit publicist with Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982).

Habib Tanvir

During his career, Habib has acted in over nine feature films, including Richard Attenborough's film, Gandhi (1982), 'Black and White' and in a yet-to-be-released film on the Bhopal gas tragedy.

Kamal Swaroop

The idea of 'Om Dar-Ba-Dar' came to him on the crowded sets of Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi', on which he was an assistant director.

Mahatma Gandhi Foundation

The current president of the Gandhi Foundation is Lord Attenborough.

Muscular Dystrophy Campaign

Lord Attenborough served as the charity’s President for 30 years, until 2002, when he became an Honorary Life President.

SS Dwarka

In 1981, Dwarka was used for several location shoots (portraying much earlier BI vessels) in Richard Attenborough's 1982 film Gandhi, about the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

The Amber Time Machine

Attenborough then discusses the scientific feasibility of DNA being preserved in amber, and the science behind the 1993 hit techno-thriller Jurassic Park, in which David's brother, Richard Attenborough starred as John Hammond.

The Man Within

In 1947, a film version The Man Within was made of the novel (called The Smugglers in the United States) starring Ronald Shiner, Michael Redgrave as Carlyon and Richard Attenborough as Andrews.

You're in a Bad Way

Between "You're In a Bad Way" and "Archway People", there is a sample of dialogue from the film Brighton Rock (1947) spoken by Richard Attenborough.


Hell is Sold Out

Hell is Sold Out is a 1951 British drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Mai Zetterling, Herbert Lom and Richard Attenborough.

Hymnus Eucharisticus

The Hymnus Eucharisticus appears in several movies and television programs, including most notably, Richard Attenborough's film Shadowlands (1993), on the later years of C.S. Lewis, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins (as Lewis) and Debra Winger.

Karl-Otto Alberty

He made his first appearance in English-language films as an SD officer (who captures Richard Attenborough) in The Great Escape (1963).

Mai Zetterling

After a brief return to Sweden in which she worked with Bergman again in his film Music in Darkness (1948), she returned to England and starred in a number of English films, playing against such leading men as Tyrone Power, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough, Keenan Wynn, Stanley Baker, and Dennis Price.

May Morning

Another description is found in the film Shadowlands directed by Richard Attenborough, on an episode in the life of the English scholar, writer and fellow of Magdalen's C.S. Lewis, starring Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis and Debra Wigner as Joy Davidman.

Melanie Clark Pullen

Since her time in Albert Square, Clark Pullen has appeared in ITV's big-budget costume drama Lady Audley's Secret, starred in Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs and featured alongside Richard Attenborough and Jenny Agutter in the remake of the classic The Railway Children, all in 2000.

Ronnie Taylor

Ronnie Taylor (born 27 October 1924) is a British Cinematographer, who has collaborated with directors Richard Attenborough and Dario Argento.

SOS Pacific

Aboard are the owner-pilot Jack Bennett (John Gregson), the navigator Willy (Cec Linder), the flight attendant Teresa (Pier Angeli) and six passengers: a policeman, Petersen (Maurice Evans); his prisoner Mark (Eddie Constantine); Whitey Mullen (Richard Attenborough), a witness against Mark; Dr Strauss, a German scientist (Gunnar Möller); Miss Shaw, a middle-aged Englishwoman (Jean Anderson); and Maria, a young European woman (Eva Bartok).