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« Reply #1122 on: August 24, 2014, 07:45:45 PM » |
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Richard Attenbourough has died at the age of 90. Like Clint, he was an actor/director: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/arts/richard-attenborough-actor-director-and-giant-of-british-cinema-dies-at-90.htmlRichard Attenborough, who after a distinguished stage and film acting career in Britain reinvented himself to become the internationally admired director of the monumental “Gandhi” and other films, died on Sunday. He was 90. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28923074Oscar-winning British film director Richard Attenborough has died at the age of 90, his son has said.
Lord Attenborough was one of Britain's leading actors, before becoming a highly successful director.
In a career that spanned six decades, he appeared in films including Brighton Rock, World War Two prisoner of war thriller The Great Escape and later in dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park.
As a director he was perhaps best known for Gandhi, which won him two Oscars.
Sir Ben Kingsley, who played the title role, said he would "miss him dearly".
"Richard Attenborough trusted me with the crucial and central task of bringing to life a dream it took him 20 years to bring to fruition.
"When he gave me the part of Gandhi it was with great grace and joy. He placed in me an absolute trust and in turn I placed an absolute trust in him and grew to love him." R.I.P. |
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« Reply #1123 on: August 24, 2014, 07:49:33 PM » |
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'' Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director and Giant of British Cinema, Dies at 90 '' Richard Attenborough, who after a distinguished stage and film acting career in Britain reinvented himself to become the internationally admired director of the monumental “Gandhi” and other films, died on Sunday. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by his son, Michael, according to the BBC.
Until the early 1960s, Mr. Attenborough was a familiar actor in Britain but little known in the United States. In London he was the original detective in Agatha Christie’s play “The Mousetrap.” On the British screen, he made an early mark as the sociopath Pinkie Brown in an adaptation of Graham Greene’s “Brighton Rock” (1947). Hollywood Breakthrough
But it was not until he appeared with his friend Steve McQueen and a sterling ensemble cast in the 1963 war film “The Great Escape,” his first Hollywood feature, that he found a trans-Atlantic audience. His role, as a British officer masterminding an escape plan from a German prisoner-of-war camp, was integral to one of the most revered and enjoyable of all World War II films. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/arts/richard-attenborough-actor-director-and-giant-of-british-cinema-dies-at-90.html?_r=0   R.I.P. MR. Attenborough. |
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" They just don't make then like this anymore ." " I just don't meet then like him anymore !! "
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« Reply #1129 on: September 12, 2014, 11:56:12 AM » |
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Stefan Gierasch, Actor in 'Jeremiah Johnson' and 'Carrie,' Dies at 88
He also appeared in 'High Plains Drifter,' 'The Hustler,' 'Silver Streak' and 'Dave' Stefan Gierasch, a character actor for nearly six decades who stood out opposite Robert Redford in Sydney Pollack’s poetic 1972 Western Jeremiah Johnson, has died. He was 88.
Gierasch died Sept. 6 at his home in Santa Monica of complications from a stroke, his wife, Hedy Sontag, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Gierasch also played the mayor of Lago who Clint Eastwood ousts in favor of a dwarf in High Plains Drifter (1973). http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stefan-gierasch-dead-carrie-jeremiah-732451R.I.P. |
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