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Richard Attenborough 1923-2014

  • 24-08-2014 9:09pm
    #1
    bnt
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    Lord Richard "Dickie" Attenborough started as an stage actor, but gained critical attention for his role as psychopathic killer "Pinkie" Brown in Brighton Rock. Later roles included The Great Escape, but then he moved in to production, most famously directing Gandhi to multiple Oscars including Director and Best Picture, and later Shadowlands. Later he returned to small acting roles, most notably in the Jurassic Park series directed by Steven Spielberg.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #2
    red dave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭red dave


    Where are you seeing this? I heard it was a hoax. RIP if true though.


  • #3
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,074 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    BBC TV News at 10PM, so if it's a hoax, they've been taken in too. It's a Sunday evening, give them time.
    Edit: BBC website has it now.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #4
    Stavro Mueller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭Stavro Mueller


    On Sky News now http://news.sky.com/story/1324094/richard-attenborough-dies-aged-90


  • #5
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,383 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    http://m.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28923074


  • #6
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,016 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    RIP
    https://forumofgames.com/




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  • #7
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,018 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    His delivery of these four words will forever make spines tingle.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg


  • #8
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    bnt wrote: »
    BBC TV News at 10PM, so if it's a hoax, they've been taken in too. It's a Sunday evening, give them time.
    Edit: BBC website has it now.

    Where did this hoax thing come from? Twitter?

    Actor and then director, he'll always be "Big X" on a bank holiday weekend, though his best performance may well be as John Christie in 10 Rillington Place.

    Shadowlands which about C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham (Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger are boTh brilliant) is my favourite of his directed films. I have never seen Magic (another one of those films of the 70s that has all but vanished from tv) hopefully they'll show it.


  • #9
    Agent Coulson
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    RIP


  • #10
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,297 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Sad news

    RIP


  • #11
    brevity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭brevity


    Rest in peace Richard.

    "Spared no expense"


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  • #12
    McSasquatch II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭McSasquatch II


    Only saw Brighton Rock and 10 Rillington Place for the first time comparatively recently, but he was brilliant in both. RIP.


  • #13
    Mickeroo
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    He had a good run of it. RIP


  • #14
    RobbingBandit
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    Loved his biopic Chaplin, Robert Downey Jr was amazing as Charles Chaplin.

    RIP.


  • #15
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Great shame but he lived to a ripe old age. I thought he was an excellent actor. Comfortable as a sinister, menacing, presence but just as at home as a loveable jovial man.

    RIP


  • #16
    Roar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭Roar


    WELCOME..... TO JURASSIC PARK..

    Amazing.

    Also, must have watched this at least 100 times over the years and it never fails to make me laugh

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk


    I've never seen Gandhi, must try and check it out this week. Sad news to start a week.


  • #17
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,036 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Ah shame.

    He had a great innings though.

    Directed and starred in two of my favorite war films, 'A Bridge too Far' and 'Sea of Sand'.


  • #18
    Warper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭Warper


    I keep on mixing him up with David Attenborough, i presume they are brothers?


  • #19
    macslash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭macslash


    RIP


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