Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough
(29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014)
Acclaimed actor and Oscar-winning director Richard Attenborough, whose film
career on both sides of the camera spanned 60 years, has died.
The actor’s son, Michael Attenborough told the BBC that his father died Sunday,
after having been in poor health for some time.
In March 2013, in light of his deteriorating health, Attenborough moved into a
nursing home in London.
Publicity photo of Richard Attenborough in Flight
of the Phoenix (1965)