ENGLISH ACTORS OF ALL TIMES CHAPTER 2 :RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH
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- DirectorCatherine MorsheadStarsJack BlumenauClare ThomasJemima RooperDramatization of E. Nesbit's classic novel about three children whose lives change dramatically after they move to a Yorkshire cottage near a railway line.
- DirectorShekhar KapurStarsCate BlanchettLiz GilesRod CulbertsonThe early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsJeff GoldblumJulianne MoorePete PostlethwaiteA research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsKenneth BranaghJulie ChristieDerek JacobiHamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
- DirectorBenjamin FryStarsJeremy PivenKelli WilliamsLiza WalkerA physicist struggling to prove one of Einstein's theories still finds time to dabble in an extra-curricular relationship with one of his lab assistants. Meanwhile at home, his under-sexed wife struggles under the assumption that he is hard at work with his experiments. All of which explodes when she discovers otherwise.
- DirectorLes MayfieldStarsRichard AttenboroughElizabeth PerkinsDylan McDermottA lawyer and a little girl must prove that a man claiming to be Santa Claus is the real thing.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsSam NeillLaura DernJeff GoldblumA pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsRichard AttenboroughNicol WilliamsonDerek JacobiWhen a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsSean ConneryRyan O'NealMichael CaineOperation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSanjeev KumarSaeed JaffreyShabana AzmiIn 1856, two obsessed noblemen ignore everything while playing chess and fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMichael YorkRichard AttenboroughTrevor HowardAt a British Regimental party in Colonial India, the widow of Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the garden, and she accuses one of the newly arrived junior Lieutenants of the crime.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsPeter O'TooleRichard AttenboroughCliff GormanRenowned producer-director Otto Preminger captures international terrorism in this film about five teenage girls who are kidnapped from a yacht by the P.L.O. Stars Peter O'Toole and Richard Attenborough.
- DirectorDouglas HickoxStarsJohn WayneRichard AttenboroughJudy GeesonChicago Police Lieutenant Jim Brannigan is sent to the U.K. to escort organized crime boss Ben Larkin back to the U.S., but Larkin's hitmen prepare an ambush for Brannigan.
- DirectorPeter CollinsonStarsOliver ReedElke SommerRichard AttenboroughTen people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsRichard AttenboroughJudy GeesonJohn HurtWhat happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
- DirectorDick ClementStarsLee RemickRichard AttenboroughIan HolmThe wine taster and merchant Martin Lynch-Gibbon is married to the shallow and spoiled Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, and loves his mistress Georgie Hands. Antonia is under therapy with Martin's best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. One day, Antonia decides to ask for a divorce from Martin, to live with Palmer, but they want to keep Martin as their friend. When Palmer's sister Dr. Honor Klein comes from Oxford to stay with her brother, she discloses the affair of Georgie, who was her student, and Martin to Palmer and Antonia. Meanwhile, Martin's brother Alexander Lynch-Gibbon has a love affair with Georgie, and Martin falls in unrequited love with Honor, but he discovers a secret about Palmer. Who will stay with whom in the end?
- DirectorSilvio NarizzanoStarsLee RemickRichard AttenboroughHywel BennettBased on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor and they have a coffin to spare. Then there's the gold-digger nurse and the gonad-grabber detective and a host of other wonderful characters.
- DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsStanley BakerAlex CordHonor BlackmanTwo soldiers of fortune, Harry Grigsby and Kip Thompson, used to be the best of friends when they fought side by side in the Congo. But now Kip has changed sides and Grigsby does not forgive him for what he regards as a betrayal, all the more as Thompson now turns his guns against Grigsby's troops and, accordingly, against his former friend. While he is London recovering from tuberculosis, Grigsby is assigned a new mission that he gladly accepts: to eliminate Thompson, now in Hong Kong causing tensions with neighboring China by creating border incidents.
- DirectorJoseph McGrathStarsPeter SellersRingo StarrIsabel JeansThe world's richest man and his adopted hobo son set out to test the limits of human vanity and greed through a series of "money games".
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsRichard AttenboroughCyril CusackEdith EvansThe legendary novel by Charles Dickens comes to life in this colorful interpretation directed by Delbert Mann.
- DirectorJoseph McGrathStarsShirley MacLaineRichard AttenboroughJames BoothWhile her husband works, the wife of a bra manufacturer leads a secret life with her lover, whom she conveniently hides in her attic.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsRichard AttenboroughDavid HemmingsAlexandra StewartA master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsRex HarrisonSamantha EggarAnthony NewleyAfter the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientele, he and his friends escape their hometown to the sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsSteve McQueenRichard AttenboroughRichard CrennaIn 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsJames StewartRichard AttenboroughPeter FinchAfter an oil company plane crashes in the Sahara, the survivors are buoyed with hope by one of the passengers, an airplane designer who plans for them to build a flyable plane from the wreckage.
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsRichard AttenboroughJack HawkinsFlora RobsonAnachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough), on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those in his care.
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsKim StanleyRichard AttenboroughMargaret LaceyA medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsStephen BoydJack HawkinsRichard AttenboroughThe first secret is what we don't tell people, the second secret is what we don't tell ourselves, and the third secret is the truth. The death of a psychologist is investigated by his teenage daughter and a former patient.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenJames GarnerRichard AttenboroughAllied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
- DirectorJames HillStarsPeter SellersRichard AttenboroughBeryl ReidAn incompetent barrister is assigned to defend an accused wife murderer.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsPatrick McGoohanKeith MichellBetsy BlairThis movie, based on William Shakespeare's Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsPeter SellersMai ZetterlingVirginia MaskellA frustrated librarian (Sellers) in Swansea, Wales is torn between his wife Jean (Markell) and a glamorous married woman, Liz (Zetterling), who wants to have an affair.
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsAlan BatesBernard LeeHayley MillsWhen an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owner's three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsJack HawkinsNigel PatrickRoger LiveseyA disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced colleagues to perform a bank robbery with military precision.
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsRichard AttenboroughPier AngeliMichael CraigA young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsRichard AttenboroughPier AngeliJohn GregsonDue to an accident, a seaplane operated by a small airline company ditches off an island in the Pacific and the surviving passengers must find a way to be rescued.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsRichard AttenboroughStanley BakerHermione BaddeleySir Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening to blow up himself and everyone on board as an act of vengeance. What follows is an Airport-type movie with all the passengers having their own little subplots and fears.
- DirectorJohn BoultingStarsIan CarmichaelTerry-ThomasPeter SellersA naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsRichard ToddBernard LeeMichael WildingIn 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsRichard AttenboroughJohn GregsonMichael CraigSent to destroy a German petrol dump in the North African desert, a British commando team unexpectedly discovers a large German tank unit, and must inform headquarters in time.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsBernard LeeRichard AttenboroughDonald HoustonJohn Wilson is troubled with pain and and an inability to sleep. He tries to light the gas-fire and seeks help from another lodger, artist Nicholas, who is spending the night with his model, and is reluctant to be disturbed. Another neighbor, Pollen, tries to be helpful, but is hit by Wilson. Frightened and angry, Pollen calls for police help. The others in the boarding house are awakened by this time, and Mrs. Harris tries to help the mentally confused Wilson, but he also refuses her help. The police clash with Dr. Sanderson, a welfare worker, who thinks he can take the gun-toting Wilson without complications, but when a Police Sergeant is injured, Police Inspector Thompson is determined to take Wilson by force if necessary.
- DirectorLeslie NormanStarsJohn MillsRichard AttenboroughBernard LeeA dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany.
- DirectorWolf RillaStarsRichard AttenboroughDorothy AlisonColin PetersenTod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsHenry B. LonghurstEdith SharpeIan CarmichaelRoger Thursby is just starting out as a barrister, full of ideals, but he is a bit too keen in the opinion of his fellow lawyers.
- DirectorJay LewisStarsJohn MillsRichard AttenboroughAndré MorellAfter a pier side mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White (Sir Richard Attenborough) finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails, he enlists the help of his best friend Puncher Roberts (Sir John Mills) to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding, and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on-board.
- DirectorJohn BoultingStarsIan CarmichaelRonald AdamHenry B. LonghurstIn World War II, a failed British officer is selected by his uncle, a brigadier with the War Office, to participate in a secret operation to recover looted artwork from the Germans.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsRichard AttenboroughGeorge BakerBill OwenA trio of ex-servicemen begin smuggling innocuous black market items into post-war Britain, but through greed they graduate to more sinister cargo.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsRichard AttenboroughCathy O'DonnellDerek FarrIn post-WW2 England, a taxi driver is ostracized by society after he's accused of murdering a school-girl and his untried lawyer must find the real killer to save his client from the hangman.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsHeather ThatcherDiane HartVirginia McKennaA domestic comedy based on the play "Little Lambs Eat Ivy", dealing with the adventures of an impoverished upper-class family consisting of a widowed mother and her four daughters.
- DirectorCompton BennettStarsTrevor HowardRichard AttenboroughSonny TuftsIn 1940, the Captain of an old Royal Navy destroyer struggles with his crew, as well as the Nazis.
- DirectorJohn BoultingStarsRobert DonatMaria SchellRenée AshersonA chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMai ZetterlingIvor BarnardNicholas HannenA book entitled "Hell Is Sold Out" is sent to the publishers under the name of "Danges", a popular writer long believed to be dead. Then, the real and very much alive Dominic Danges turns up and meets the authoress who has been using his name.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsJohn MillsNigel PatrickPeter HammondThe crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsJack WarnerRichard AttenboroughDirk BogardeA slice of life in a British Borstal reform institution for young criminals.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsDennis PriceMai ZetterlingRichard AttenboroughSet in a German theatre after World War II, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, et cetera. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsRichard AttenboroughSheila SimBernard MilesJack Read, a working-class boy, wins a scholarship to a public school as part of a post-World War II experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together. He meets much snobbery along the way as he strives to earn acceptance from his fellow students and some of the teaching staff.
- DirectorSidney GilliatStarsRichard AttenboroughAlastair SimWylie WatsonPercy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, Percy becomes mixed up with gangsters and a murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
- DirectorJohn BoultingStarsRichard AttenboroughHermione BaddeleyWilliam HartnellIn Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsRichard AttenboroughBarry K. BarnesSheila SimA London cab driver gets mixed up with a criminal gang and sets out to expose the group and its leader for what they are.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsMichael RedgraveJean KentJoan GreenwoodTold in flashback, this movie opens with a scene of a seventeen-year-old boy, Francis Andrews (Sir Richard Attenborough), being brutally lashed during a police interrogation, in which the boy thinks back to what placed him in this situation. He betrayed the crew of a smuggling ship whose master, Richard Carlyon (Sir Michael Redgrave), was also his guardian. Some of the smugglers are caught, but Carlyon escapes, and then begins his search for Andrews. Carlyon was quite fond of the boy, but knew him for a coward. Andrews seeks refuge in in the cottage of a girl named Elizabeth (Joan Greenwood), who urges him to give testimony against the smugglers in court. He summons his courage and does so. Carlyon, catching up with Andrews, recognizes this as an act of courage, and does not take revenge on him. Carlyon is eventually caught, but despite the police torture, Andrews does not identify him, and he goes free, while his guardian faces the gallows.
- DirectorPeter UstinovStarsRalph RichardsonRaymond HuntleyJohn LaurieDuring World War II, on the eve of the Battle of Britain, British scientists develop the first radar systems to be employed against the German Luftwaffe.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDavid NivenKim HunterRobert CooteA British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
- DirectorJohn BoultingRoy BoultingStarsRichard AttenboroughJack WatlingDavid TomlinsonBritish propaganda film from WWII stressing the importance of the navigator on RAF's bomber crews.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsAnne CrawfordDavid FarrarFrederick LeisterAn accountant is forced by circumstances to take a job at the racetrack. He is working at the betting window when he is drawn into a gang of criminals and their illegal schemes.
- DirectorKarel LamacStarsLloyd PearsonMaggie RennieJulien Mitchell
- DirectorNoël CowardStarsNoël CowardJohn MillsBernard MilesThis "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.