{"id":33312,"date":"2014-08-25T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=33312"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T23:02:19","slug":"vale-richard-attenborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2014\/08\/25\/vale-richard-attenborough\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Richard Attenborough"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Richard Attenborough – 1923-2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The man who bade us welcome to Jurassic Park in 1993, Lord Richard Attenborough, has passed away.<\/p>\n

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Lord Attenborough, the brother of famed BBC naturalist David Attenborough, was an actor, producer and director, starring in front of the camera in films such as Brighton Rock<\/em> (1947), Private’s Progress<\/em> (1956), and perhaps most famously, The Great Escape<\/em>, in 1963, alongside fellow screen lumnaries such as Donald Pleasance, James Garner and Steve McQueen. Modern audiences will undoubtedly remember his role in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park<\/em>, as eccentric billionaire John Hammond, who dreamed of giving dinsoaurs back to a paying public. He appeared in the remake of Miracle on 34th Street<\/em>, in 1994, and had a small role in the Cate Blanchett biopic Elizabeth<\/em>. Among his screen awards were two Golden Globe wins for Best Supporting Actor, for The Sand Pebbles<\/em> and, a year later, for Doctor Doolittle<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lord Attenborough was also well respected behind the camera, as a director and producer, with his most successful foray into film-making being the monumental Gandhi<\/em>, for which he won two Oscars in the directing and producing categories. His first directorial stint was for 1969’s Oh What A Lovely War<\/em>, followed by Young Winston<\/em>, and A Bridge Too Far<\/em>, while two films in the 1980’s, A Chorus Line<\/em> and Cry Freedom<\/em>, as well as two more bio-pics in the ’90’s, Chaplin<\/em> and Shadowlands<\/em>, on CS Lewis, kept him busy.<\/p>\n

Lord Attenborough suffered a stroke, in 2008, and was confined to a wheelchair from that time on.<\/p>\n

At the time of his death, aged 90, on August 24th, Lord Attenborough leaves a wife and three children.<\/p>\n

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Lord Attenborough in 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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