This block contains the information about Richard Attenborough and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Richard Attenborough was born in Cambridge. He graduated the Royal Academy of dramatic arts. As an actor he debut in a movie while performing a small role in a movie which was about the soldier’s lives. During his carrier he played in more than fifty movies. Since his childhood he was a very strong personality, as after he lost his father in a very early age he was not able to show his emotions as he had to help his mother in taking care of the other younger brothers and sisters that he had. That is why he was able to fight since being only eleven years old, because that was the only law of surviving in the streets. It is interesting to know that at his school he was between the best students, mostly due to the fact that after he went through all the lives miseries he was realizing very well that the only way to escape poverty was learning very hard in order to obtain the scholarship and to be able to study further while using it and also to be able to help his family while giving a part of the scholarship to them. While studying in the university he was performing on the stage of the local theater that is why he was noticed by one producer once who needed an actor of exactly his type of shape to perform in a few small scenes in his movie. Performing in those scenes allowed him to be noticed and as a result he started getting a variety of invitations to perform in some other movies.

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Here you can learn about the movies Richard Attenborough acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
The Lost World: Jurassic Park - John Hammond	$73M	1997	$90.2M	$229M
Jurassic Park - John Hammond	$65M	1993		$357M
Chaplin - Producer, Director	$31M	1992		$9.49M
Grey Owl - Producer, Director	$30M	1999	$162K	$315K
Cry Freedom - Producer, Director	$29M	1987		$5.9M
A Chorus Line - Director	$27M	1985		$4.83M
A Bridge Too Far - Lunatic Wearing Glasses (uncredited), Director	$26M	1977		$50.8M
Elizabeth - Sir William Cecil	$25M	1998	$275K	$30M
Closing the Ring - Producer, Director	$23.5M	2007
Gandhi - Producer, Director	$22M	1982
Hamlet - English Ambassador	$18M	1996	$148K	$4.41M
Doctor Dolittle - Albert Blossom, Soundtrack (performer: "I've Never Seen Anything Like It")	$18M	1967		$9M
The Sand Pebbles - Frenchy Burgoyne	$12M	1966
Othello - Special Thanks (as Lord Attenborough)	$11M	1995		$2.11M
The Great Escape - Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett "Big X"	$4M	1963
Strange Affection - Stephen Leigh		1957
Dunkirk - John Holden (Heron owner)		1958
The Man Upstairs - Peter Watson		1958
Brothers in Law - Henry Marshall		1957
The Baby and the Battleship - Knocker White		1956