Richard Attenborough: movies and TV shows
Richard Attenborough has 144 credits in the archive: 129 films and 15 TV series, from 1942 to 2025. Highest rated: Spécial cinéma (9.5/10).
Career timeline
1942 – 2025 · busiest year: 1969 (5 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain | Self | Film | 10.0 | 101 |
| 2017 | Diana: The People's Princess | Self | Film | — | 93 |
| 2014 | Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | Film | 4.8 | 90 |
| 2013 | Talking Pictures | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.2 | 89 |
| 2011 | Return to Jurassic Park | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.6 | 87 |
| 2009 | Outbreak 1939: When War Broke Out | Film | — | 85 | |
| 2008 | Chaplin the Hero | Self | Film | — | 84 |
| 2008 | Strolling Into the Sunset | Self | Film | — | 84 |
| 2008 | The Most Famous Man in the World! | Self | Film | — | 84 |
| 2007 | British Film Forever | TV | 5.5 | 83 | |
| 2007 | Closing the Ring | Film | 6.2 | 83 | |
| 2007 | Closing the Ring | Film | 6.2 | 83 | |
| 2007 | The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles' | Self | Film | — | 83 |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self | TV | 4.4 | 82 |
| 2005 | Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool | Self | Film | 5.9 | 81 |
| 2004 | Within the Way Without | (voice) | Film | 2.0 | 80 |
| 2004 | Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival | Self | Film | — | 80 |
| 2003 | A Bridge Too Far: Richard Attenborough - A Director Remembers | Self - Interviewee | Film | 8.0 | 79 |
| 2003 | Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin | Self | Film | 6.9 | 79 |
| 2003 | The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough | Self | Film | — | 79 |
| 2002 | Forever Ealing | Self | Film | 7.2 | 78 |
| 2002 | Puckoon | Writer/Director | Film | 6.3 | 78 |
| 2001 | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Magog | TV | 6.8 | 77 |
| 2001 | Beyond Jurassic Park | Self | Film | 6.8 | 77 |
| 2000 | The Railway Children | The Old Gentleman | Film | 6.8 | 76 |
| 2000 | Light Keeps Me Company | Self | Film | 7.9 | 76 |
| 2000 | The Children Who Cheated the Nazis | Narrator | Film | 5.0 | 76 |
| 2000 | Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self | Film | 7.0 | 76 |
| 2000 | The Spirit of Grey Owl | Self | Film | — | 76 |
| 1999 | Grey Owl | Film | 5.6 | 75 | |
| 1999 | Grey Owl | Film | 5.6 | 75 | |
| 1999 | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Jacob | Film | 6.2 | 75 |
| 1998 | Parkinson | Self | TV | — | 74 |
| 1998 | Elizabeth | Sir William Cecil | Film | 7.2 | 74 |
| 1998 | Diana: Queen of Hearts | Self - Narrator | Film | 7.3 | 74 |
| 1998 | Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 74 |
| 1997 | The Making of 'The Lost World' | Self | Film | 6.9 | 73 |
| 1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | John Hammond | Film | 6.6 | 73 |
| 1996 | Hamlet | English Ambassador | Film | 7.3 | 72 |
| 1996 | In Love and War | Film | 5.9 | 72 | |
| 1996 | In Love and War | Film | 5.9 | 72 | |
| 1996 | E=MC² | The Visitor | Film | 3.3 | 72 |
| 1995 | The Making of 'Jurassic Park' | Self / John Hammond | Film | 7.3 | 71 |
| 1994 | Miracle on 34th Street | Kris Kringle | Film | 6.8 | 70 |
| 1994 | A Century of Cinema | Self | Film | 8.3 | 70 |
| 1994 | In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid | Self | Film | 8.0 | 70 |
| 1993 | Jurassic Park | Hammond | Film | 8.0 | 69 |
| 1993 | Shadowlands | Film | 6.9 | 69 | |
| 1993 | Shadowlands | Film | 6.9 | 69 | |
| 1993 | Audrey Hepburn: Remembered | Self | Film | 7.6 | 69 |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Film | 7.4 | 68 | |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Film | 7.4 | 68 | |
| 1990 | Pictures of Europe | Self | Film | — | 66 |
| 1988 | This Morning | Self | TV | 5.2 | 64 |
| 1988 | Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute | Self | Film | 6.5 | 64 |
| 1987 | Sacrée soirée | Self | TV | 5.7 | 63 |
| 1987 | Cry Freedom | Film | 7.0 | 63 | |
| 1987 | Cry Freedom | Film | 7.0 | 63 | |
| 1986 | Mother Teresa | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 62 |
| 1985 | Friday People | TV | — | 61 | |
| 1985 | A Chorus Line | Film | 6.2 | 61 | |
| 1985 | The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio | Self | Film | 8.0 | 61 |
| 1983 | Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi | Self | Film | — | 59 |
| 1983 | James Bond: The First 21 Years | Self | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Film | 7.6 | 58 | |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Film | 7.6 | 58 | |
| 1979 | The Human Factor | Colonel John Daintry | Film | 5.8 | 55 |
| 1978 | Magic | Film | 6.8 | 54 | |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Lunatic with Glasses (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 53 |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Film | 7.2 | 53 | |
| 1977 | The Chess Players | General Outram | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 1975 | Brannigan | Cmdr. Charles Swann | Film | 6.0 | 51 |
| 1975 | Conduct Unbecoming | Major Lionel E. Roach | Film | 5.9 | 51 |
| 1975 | Rosebud | Edward Sloat | Film | 5.2 | 51 |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self | TV | 9.5 | 50 |
| 1974 | And Then There Were None | Judge Arthur Cannon | Film | 5.7 | 50 |
| 1972 | Young Winston | Film | 6.2 | 48 | |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self | TV | 6.1 | 47 |
| 1971 | Film '72 | Self | TV | 4.7 | 47 |
| 1971 | 10 Rillington Place | John Christie | Film | 7.3 | 47 |
| 1971 | A Severed Head | Palmer Anderson | Film | 5.2 | 47 |
| 1970 | The Last Grenade | General Charles Whiteley | Film | 5.7 | 46 |
| 1970 | Loot | Inspector Truscott | Film | 5.7 | 46 |
| 1970 | Don't Make Me Laugh | Film | — | 46 | |
| 1969 | The Magic Christian | Oxford Coach | Film | 5.8 | 45 |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Film | 6.6 | 45 | |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Film | 6.6 | 45 | |
| 1969 | David Copperfield | Mr. Tungay | Film | 5.6 | 45 |
| 1969 | Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? | Self | Film | — | 45 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1968 | Only When I Larf | Silas | Film | 7.1 | 44 |
| 1968 | The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom | Robert Blossom | Film | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1967 | Doctor Dolittle | Albert Blossom | Film | 6.2 | 43 |
| 1966 | The Sand Pebbles | Frenchy Burgoyne | Film | 7.2 | 42 |
| 1965 | The Flight of the Phoenix | Lew Moran | Film | 7.2 | 41 |
| 1964 | The Third Secret | Alfred Price-Gorham | Film | 6.2 | 40 |
| 1964 | Guns at Batasi | Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale | Film | 6.9 | 40 |
| 1964 | Seance on a Wet Afternoon | Bill | Film | 7.2 | 40 |
| 1964 | Seance on a Wet Afternoon | Film | 7.2 | 40 | |
| 1963 | The Great Escape | Bartlett 'Big X' | Film | 7.9 | 39 |
| 1962 | The L-Shaped Room | Film | 6.8 | 38 | |
| 1962 | Only Two Can Play | Gareth L. Probert | Film | 5.9 | 38 |
| 1962 | All Night Long | Rod Hamilton | Film | 6.8 | 38 |
| 1962 | The Dock Brief | Herbert Fowle | Film | 6.6 | 38 |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 37 |
| 1961 | Whistle Down the Wind | Film | 7.2 | 37 | |
| 1960 | The League of Gentlemen | Lexy | Film | 7.0 | 36 |
| 1960 | The Angry Silence | Tom Curtis | Film | 7.2 | 36 |
| 1960 | The Angry Silence | Film | 7.2 | 36 | |
| 1959 | I'm All Right Jack | Sidney De Vere Cox | Film | 6.6 | 35 |
| 1959 | Danger Within | Capt. 'Bunter' Phillips | Film | 6.3 | 35 |
| 1959 | SOS Pacific | Whitey Mullen | Film | 6.9 | 35 |
| 1959 | Jet Storm | Ernest Tilley | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1958 | Dunkirk | John Holden | Film | 6.9 | 34 |
| 1958 | Sea of Sand | Brody | Film | 6.6 | 34 |
| 1958 | The Man Upstairs | Peter Watson | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1957 | Brothers in Law | Henry Marshall | Film | 7.1 | 33 |
| 1957 | The Scamp | Stephen Leigh | Film | 6.2 | 33 |
| 1956 | Private's Progress | Pvt. Percival Henry Cox | Film | 6.6 | 32 |
| 1956 | The Baby and the Battleship | Knocker White | Film | 6.4 | 32 |
| 1955 | The Ship That Died of Shame | George Hoskins | Film | 7.3 | 31 |
| 1954 | Eight O'Clock Walk | Thomas Leslie Manning | Film | 6.9 | 30 |
| 1953 | Box for One | The Caller | Film | — | 29 |
| 1952 | The Magic Box | Jack Carter | Film | 6.5 | 28 |
| 1952 | Gift Horse | Dripper Daniels | Film | 6.6 | 28 |
| 1952 | Father's Doing Fine | Dougall | Film | 7.3 | 28 |
| 1951 | Hell Is Sold Out | Pierre Bonnet | Film | 6.0 | 27 |
| 1950 | Morning Departure | Stoker Snipe | Film | 6.9 | 26 |
| 1949 | The Lost People | Jan | Film | 6.0 | 25 |
| 1949 | Boys in Brown | Jackie Knowles | Film | 6.3 | 25 |
| 1948 | Brighton Rock | Pinkie Brown | Film | 6.8 | 24 |
| 1948 | The Guinea Pig | Jack Read | Film | 7.2 | 24 |
| 1948 | London Belongs to Me | Percy Boon | Film | 7.0 | 24 |
| 1947 | Dancing with Crime | Ted Peters | Film | 6.1 | 23 |
| 1947 | The Man Within | Francis Andrews | Film | 6.8 | 23 |
| 1946 | A Matter of Life and Death | An English Pilot | Film | 7.8 | 22 |
| 1946 | School for Secrets | Jack Arnold | Film | 7.2 | 22 |
| 1945 | Journey Together | David Wilton | Film | 6.6 | 21 |
| 1945 | The True Glory | Commentator | Film | 6.5 | 21 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee/Presenter | TV | 7.1 | 20 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 20 |
| 1944 | The Hundred Pound Window | Tommy Draper | Film | 9.0 | 20 |
| 1943 | Svejk Wrecks Germany | Railway worker | Film | 8.5 | 19 |
| 1942 | In Which We Serve | Young Stoker | Film | 6.8 | 18 |