Death of actor and director Richard Attenborough – RTVE

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The actor and director Richard Attenborough in a file photo taken in 1998 in Tokyo. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI

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The director and actor Richard 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 brilliant, your Gandhi was amazing. Richard Attenborough was one of the greats of cinema” , said British Prime Minister David Cameron on his Twitter account.

life devoted to the arts

brother of naturalist David Attenborough, who shared treatment ‘Sir, “although 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 on August 29, 1923 , was the oldest of The three sons of Frederick Attenborough, rector of the University College of Leicester (England center), and Mary Clegg family was John’s younger brother, 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 psychopathic gangster novel by Graham Greene.

After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II , is devoted to British cinema over the next 30 years, with films like I’m All Right Jack (1959), and in the theater, was a member, with his wife Sheila Sim, the original cast of The Mousetrap of Agatha Christie, even on the bill.

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 .