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 I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something. Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
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At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I`m safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
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There`s nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
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I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that`s ever lived.
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At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone "darling", it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I`m safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them, too.
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I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
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I don`t read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
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If you`ve ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
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Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn`t want to know about.
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I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody`s life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
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I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don`t come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can`t do that and I`m not in that bracket at all.
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Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
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I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
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And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
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I just love biography, and I`m fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
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I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
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And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
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I prefer fact to fiction.
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And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.
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I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
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I`m a passionate trade unionist.
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I can`t write, I can`t paint, I don`t compose.
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In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
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What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
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David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what`s the best film you`ve made and so on and I don`t really have any hesitation that the film I`m least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
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Trivia
Directed 4 different performers in Oscar-nominated performances: Ben Kingsley, Denzel Washington, Robert Downey Jr. and Debra Winger. Kingsley won an Oscar for his performance in Gandhi (1982).
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Former father-in-law of actress Jane Seymour
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It was his life ambition to direct Gandhi (1982).
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1990: Freeman of the City of Leicester, England.
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1993: Fellow of King's College, London.
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Appointed a CBE in 1967, knighted in 1976 and created a life peer in 1993.
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Father of director Michael Attenborough and actress Charlotte Attenborough
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2003: Was awarded the Patricia Rothermere Award for his lifelong service to theatre at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
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2003: Was made President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), a role that had been vacant since the death of Princess Diana' in 1997.
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Often casts Anthony Hopkins.
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9/05: Attended the funeral of British film producer Lord John Brabourne.
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Originally considered for the role of Harry in The Ladykillers (1955) by director Alexander Mackendrick. The role eventually went to Peter Sellers.
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2002-: Third president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
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He reprised his Jurassic Park (1993) character, John Hammond, for Universal Studio's Jurassic Park: The Ride attraction. He appears in a short film at the beginning of the ride telling you that the NEW Jurassic Park (the ride you're on) is completely safe, and that there will never be another incident like that at Costa Rica in 1993.
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1971-94: Vice-president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
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5/11/05: Gave a reading at a national British memorial service for the victims of the South Asian tsunami. He lost three members of his family in the tragedy.
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Has two brothers, naturalist/presenter David Attenborough, and John Attenborough. Also, during World War Two, his parents adopted two German Jewish girls, who had been brought to Britain as part of the Kindertransport.
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12/26/04: Members of his family - daughter Jane, son-in-law Michael Holland, grandchildren Sam, Lucy and Alice and Michael's mother Jane - were holidaying in Phuket, Thailand, when the area was hit by the South Asian tsunami on Boxing Day 2004. Lord Attenborough lost his daughter, her mother-in-law and his 14-year-old granddaughter Lucy in the tragedy. His elder granddaughter, 17-year-old Alice, was seriously injured and his son-in-law and grandson survived unscathed.
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1978: Officially retired from acting. He agreed to make a return to acting in Jurassic Park (1993), saying he was a huge admirer of Steven Spielberg and always felt bad that Gandhi (1982) had won the best picture award instead of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)..
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Received an honorary doctorate from Dickinson College, Pennsylvania.
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Godfather of Emma Forbes.
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In 2008 the UK Regional Critics' Film Awards were renamed The Richard Attenborough Film Awards, in his honour.
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1952: Was the first to star in Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap", now the longest-running play in the world.
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Steven Spielberg has named him as an influence.
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He was trained at RADA (The Royal Acadamy of Dramatic Arts), where he later became Chairman.
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Has been involved in some form with the University of Sussex since 1970; he was elected Chancellor of the University on March 20, 1998, replacing the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, who had held that post since 1985.
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12/02: Said he would go back on his claim to never appear in front of the camera again for one role only: that of Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.
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2004: 57 years after he starred in Brighton Rock (1947), his son Michael Attenborough directed a musical version of Graham Greene's novel.
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Philosophies include believing in content as opposed to style and sincerity rather than intelligence.
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Life Vice-President of Chelsea Football Club
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He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.
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He was a close friend of the English actor Sir John Mills for many years, and gave the eulogy at his funeral in April 2005.
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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 78-84. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
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Brother-in-law of actor Gerald Sim
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Created an honorary D.Litt of the Universities of Leicester, Kent and Sussex in 1970, 1981 and 1987 respectively.
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