Richard Attenborough — Actor (19)
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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
director: Richard Schickel actor: Sydney Pollack / Woody Allen …
other title: Leben und Werk von Charles Chaplin / Charlot, la vie et l'œuvre de Charles Chaplin …
Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced, written and directed by renowned film critic Richard Schickel.
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Danger Within (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Danger Within
director: Don Chaffey actor: Richard Todd / Bernard Lee …
other title: Verrat im Camp 127 / Danger intérieur …
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
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Loot (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Loot
director: Silvio Narizzano actor: Richard Attenborough / Lee Remick …
other title: Die größten Gauner weit und breit / Le Magot …
Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
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Brannigan (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Brannigan
director: Douglas Hickox actor: John Wayne / Richard Attenborough …
other title: Ispettore Brannigan, la morte segue la tua ombra / Brannigan slår til …
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.
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The Third Secret (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Third Secret
director: Charles Crichton actor: Stephen Boyd / Jack Hawkins …
other title: Il terzo segreto / El tercer secreto …
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
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A Severed Head (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Severed Head
director: Dick Clement actor: Lee Remick / Richard Attenborough …
other title: Traue keinem Hausfreund / Affairs and Relations …
Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — namely, a mistress called Georgie, whom his womanizing brother also desires. All the while, Palmer's sister Honor seems to know everyone's business.
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The Magic Box (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Magic Box
director: John Boulting actor: Robert Donat / Margaret Johnston …
other title: Stupenda conquista / Der wunderbare Flimmerkasten …
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Sea of Sand (1958) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sea of Sand
director: Guy Green actor: Richard Attenborough / John Gregson …
other title: Mare di sabbia / Die schwarzen Teufel von El Alamein …
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
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Only Two Can Play (1962) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Only Two Can Play
director: Sidney Gilliat actor: Peter Sellers / Mai Zetterling …
other title: Sesso, peccato e castità / Lieben kann man nur zu zweit …
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
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I'm All Right Jack (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
I'm All Right Jack
director: John Boulting actor: Peter Sellers / Ian Carmichael …
other title: Nudi alla meta / Som brødre vi dele …
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
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The Sand Pebbles (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
The Sand Pebbles
director: Robert Wise actor: Steve McQueen / Richard Attenborough …
other title: Quelli della San Pablo / Kanonbåden San Pablo …
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
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A Bridge Too Far (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
A Bridge Too Far
director: Richard Attenborough actor: Dirk Bogarde / James Caan …
other title: Quell'ultimo ponte / Broen ved Arnhem …
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.