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The director and actor Richard British Attenborough has died Sunday at age 90 old as announced by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) .
Attenborough, whose death has been confirmed by his son, British channel BBC starred in films such as Brighton Rock The Great Escape and Jurassic Park during a career spanning six decades.
“His performance in Brighton Rock was bright, your Gandhi was amazing. Richard Attenborough was one of the greats of cinema, “said British Prime Minister David Cameron on his Twitter account.
Richard Attenborough , which won eight Oscars for Gandhi , including best film and best actor, was born in Cambridge in 1923.
life devoted to the arts
brother of naturalist David Attenborough, who shared the title of “Sir”, though he was also lordship, dedicated his life to the arts and to promote education , while he was president of numerous institutions in the UK such as the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he studied, or the Chelsea football club, of which he was fond of life.
Born in Cambridge August 29, 1923 , was the eldest of three sons of Frederick Attenborough, rector of the University College of Leicester (England center), and Mary Clegg, family of which he was the little brother John, former executive of Alfa Romeo who died in 2012.
His film career began in 1942 as a seaman deserter In Which We Serve , but fame came with Brighton Rock (1947), where he played the young psychopath gangster novel by Graham Greene.
After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II , was devoted to British cinema over the next 30 years, with films like I’m All Right Jack (1959), and in the theater, was part, with his wife Sheila Sim, the original cast of The Mousetrap of Agatha Christie, even poster.
Carrera very winning
In 1963 she debuted in Hollywood with The Great Escape and in 1967 and 1968, won two Golden Globes Best Supporting Actor for The Sand Pebbles , with Steve McQueen, and Doctor Dolittle.
Although announced in 1979 that left the interpretation, reappeared in 1993 as the eccentric entrepreneur John Hammond Jurassic Park Steven Spielberg after he did some other minor role.
As a director, Attenborough debuted the musical film Oh! What a lovely war , while world fame came with his epic 1982 Gandhi , for which he won two separate Oscar for best director and best film as well as a Golden Globe and two Bafta Britons.
In 1992 he directed Chaplin , with Robert Downey Jr. and 1993′s Shadowlands , starring Anthony Hopkins Welsh, one of his favorite actors.
Solidarity Shed
also signed the film version of the musical A Chorus Line (1985) with Michael Douglas and shocking film about the life of South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko Cry Freedom (1987).
Richard Attenborough pattern was multiple solidarity organizations as United World Colleges, which promotes international educational exchange, Swaziland and founded the “Center for Creative Learning Jane Holland”, in memory of her daughter that name, who died in the 2004 tsunami in Thailand.
Jane, who died along with one of her daughters, Lucy, was the oldest of three children, the others being Michael, theater director, and Charlotte, an actress.
” Sir “and Lord
In 1976 received the title of Knight of the British Empire , including treatment of” sir “and in 1993 agreed to the House of Lords with the title of Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, the neighborhood where he lived in London.
Attenborough was a great art collector since the 50s and met Picasso ceramics and works of British LS Lowry and Graham Sutherland.
In 2008, the actor and director, who was a friend of Princess Diana attended -a whose funeral in 1997, suffered a stroke that he fell in a wheelchair .
After selling some of his art collection and its properties in London and Scotland in March 2013 joined with his wife in a London nursing residence for older artists .
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