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Richard Attenborough

Richard Samuel Attenborough born on August 29, 1923 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He is an English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won an Academy Award, BAFTA and three Golden Globes.

He making his film debut in In Which We Serve (1942). He won British Academy Awards as the kidnapper in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and the bombastic sergeant major in Guns at Batasi (1964).

He became a producer in partnership with Bryan Forbes, and directed such large-scale epics as A Bridge Too Far (1977).

A 20-year crusade to film the life of Mahatma Gandhi led to an Oscar for Gandhi (1982) and BAFTAs for Best Film and Best Director.

In 1987 he made Cry Freedom, a biography of the black activist Steve Biko, and in 1992 a biography of Charles Chaplin. The following year he directed Shadowlands, the story of C S Lewis's marriage, and later appeared in In Love and War (1996) and Elizabeth (1998).

During the 1990s, he acting in character roles, the bearded billionaire in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993), as Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and the English Ambassador in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996).

He married actress Sheila Sim in 1944. Richard Attenborough was knighted in 1976, and became a baron in 1993.

Director

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

Awards

  • BAFTA Award Best British Film "Shadowlands" 1993
  • BAFTA Fellowship 1983
  • BAFTA Award Best Film "Gandhi" 1982
  • BAFTA Award Best Director "Gandhi" 1982
  • Directors Guild of America Award Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film "Gandhi" 1982
  • Golden Globe Award Best Director "Gandhi" 1982
  • New York Film Critics Circle Award Best Picture "Gandhi" 1982
  • Oscar Best Picture "Gandhi" 1982
  • Oscar Best Director "Gandhi" 1982
  • British Film Academy United Nations Award "Oh! What A Lovely War" 1969
  • Golden Globe Award Best English Language Foreign Film "Oh! What A Lovely War" 1969
  • Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actor "Doctor Dolittle" 1967
  • Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actor "The Sand Pebbles" 1966
  • British Film Academy Award Best British Actor "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" and "Guns at Batasi" 1964
  • San Sebastian Film Festival Best Actor Award "Seance on a Wet Afternoon" 1964

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Women, The
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shopgirl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man. Naturally, this situation becomes the hot talk amongst Mary's catty friends, especially the scandalmonger Sylvia Fowler, who has little room to talk — she finds herself ...

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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
Overcoming a nurse, and dressing in her clothes, a madman escapes from Hope Sanitarium. The world he is about to enter is crazier than anything he could have endured at the asylum, as we soon find out in I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, the last screenplay written by film legend Ed Wood before his death. With an all star cast that includes Billy Zane, Christina Ricci, Sandra Bernhard, Tippi Hedren, Eartha Kitt, Ann Magnuson, Andrew M ...

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Liev Schreiber
Isaac Liev Schreiber was born on October 4, 1967 in San Francisco, California. He is an American Tony Award-winning actor. In 1993, he made his Broadway debut in In the Summer House, followed by numerous off-Broadway productions. In 1994, Schreiber made his first film, Mixed Nuts, playing a transvestite opposite Steve Martin. He recognized by moviegoers as Cotton Weary in the Scream series of horror films (1996-2000 ...

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Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton is known as a comic actor who can also go the serious route. His debut role in the manic morgue comedy Night Shift (1982, with Shelley Long) was typical of his offbeat style. He really became a star as the frenetic title ghoul in Tim Burton's dark comedy Beetlejuice (1988). The next year he played Batman in Burton's big-budget movie Batman; it was considered casting against type, but Keaton worked well enough ...

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Gaumont TriStar Columbia Pictures
Gaumont is a French film production company founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946). It is the oldest running film company in the world. Originally dealing in photographic apparatuses, the company began producing short films in 1897 to promote its make of camera-projector. Léon Gaumont's secretary Alice Guy Blaché became the motion picture industry’s first female director. From 1905 to ...

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Austin Chick
Austin Chick was born in 1974 in New Hampshire, USA. He is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. His first major film, which he wrote and directed, was XX/XY (2002), starred Mark Ruffalo and Kathleen Robertson. He co-produced Sidney Lumet's 2007 film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, starring Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman. He directed and produced 2008’s drama August, ...

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Francis Ford Coppola
Life and career (1960 to 1978) Francis Ford Coppola was born to Carmine Coppola, at the time first flautist for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and his wife Italia in Detroit, Michigan on April 7, 1939, the second of three children. Two years later Carmine became first flautist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the family moved back to suburban Long Island, where Francis spent the remainder of his childhood. Coppola had polio as a boy, leavin ...

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Rome Film Festival
Festa Internazionale di Roma - RomeFilmFest: a great festival taking place in a great city. And not just a festival but a real feast for movie lovers and a great event for all those who work for cinema, show cinema, tell us stories through cinema. Not just a great city, but the city of cinema par excellence, will host the Fest which will transform its centre - the Auditorium Parco della Musica - in the Parco del Cinema for nine days ...

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