London The prolific actor and director Richard Attenborough died Sunday at age 90, his son confirmed the British channel BBC.
Attenborough conquered Hollywood with his role in Jurassic Park and his direction of the film Gandhi, for which he received two Oscar.
Richard Attenborough began his film career in 1942, but fame came five years later. Photo: EFE
Richard Attenborough began his film career in 1942, but fame came five years later. Photo: EFE enlarge
The British dedicated his life to the arts and 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 football club Chelsea, which was fond lifetime.
Born in Cambridge on August 29, 1923; was the eldest of three sons of Frederick Attenborough, rector of the University College of Leicester, and Mary Clegg, family of which he was the little brother John, former executive of Alfa Romeo who died in 2012.
The Richard Attenborough film career began in 1942 as a deserter sailor in 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 dedicated to British cinema over the next 30 years, with films such as I'm All Right Jack (1959), and in the theater, was a member, with his wife Sheila Sim, the original cast of the Mousetrap, Agatha Christie, even poster.
In 1963 she debuted in Hollywood with The Great Escape and in 1967 and 1968, won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for The Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen, and Doctor Dolittle.
Although said in 1979 that left the interpretation, reappeared in 1993 as the eccentric entrepreneur John Hammond in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park.
As a director, Attenborough film debut with the musical Oh! What a lovely war, but came to fame with his 1982 epic Gandhi, for which she won two separate Oscar for best director and best picture as well as a Golden Globe and two British Bafta.
In 1992 he directed Chaplin with Robert Downey Jr., and in 1993, he Shadowlands, starring Anthony Hopkins Welsh, one of his favorite actors.
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