Closing the Ring

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is an English actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. He is the current President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . As a film director and producer, he won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1982. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and... three Golden Globe Awards. As an actor he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street and Jurassic Park. He is the elder brother of naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough. His eldest daughter and one of his grandchildren were killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004. Attenborough was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, the eldest of three sons of Mary Attenborough a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and wrote a standard text on Anglo-Saxon law. Attenborough was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and at RADA.
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