Richard Attenborough

[Grey Crab]

I must admit I'm startled that nobody has started a thread on this already. RIP to a great man.

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Errrrr http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?51566-Richard-Attenborough&p=2036492#post2036492

[Grey Crab]

Please be respectful. This is a thread just for comments about the great man. Personally, I think it's a little low to stoop to the level of starting a rival thread, but I'm not going to get into that on here.

 

I watched Brighton Rock for the first time a few weeks ago. A tremendous performance, given the complexity of the character in Greene's book.

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I'm really looking forward to a retrospective of his greatest films - too many to mention.

[Goatboy]

Made wildlife documentaries his own. RIP.

[Grey Crab]

Made wildlife documentaries his own. RIP.

 

I think a lot of people might think this due to the nature of the shows where it was just him and the animals on screen, but I know for a fact that he had a crew with him to help so he didn't make the documentaries on his own. If you think about it, he was quite old and went to some quite dangerous places so he wouldn't have been able to do them on his own anyway. But I think that he certainly did most of the work on them. A great, great man.

[Goatboy]

He certainly had a quality team with him but it was his personable nature and engaging narration that gave the shows such gravitas and accessibility. A boon for science and nature fans of more than one generation. RIP.

[sadoldgit]

You do know you have got the wrong brother right guys? This one was the actor, the one still living does animals.

[Grey Crab]

Richard Attenborough made films in the olden days and nature documentaries more recently. Look him up. His transformation to play Gandhi is one of the greatest in cinema history.

[Goatboy]

Richard Attenborough made films in the olden days and nature documentaries more recently. Look him up. His transformation to play Gandhi is one of the greatest in cinema history.

 

[Goatboy]

You do know you have got the wrong brother right guys? This one was the actor, the one still living does animals.

 

Wrong Brother Right Guys sounds like a homo-erotic masterpiece. Was this Dickie's earlier work?

[sadoldgit]

Wrong Brother Right Guys sounds like a homo-erotic masterpiece. Was this Dickie's earlier work?

 

Yep, a black and white classic from the 50s!