RIP Lord Richard Attenborough

[bazodee]

Lord Richard Attenborough, the actor and film director, has died just days before his 91st birthday.

After forging a career as an actor in films including Brighton Rock and The Great Escape, he became an acclaimed film director, winning two Academy awards for Gandhi in 1983.

He was the older brother of the nature broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.

Attenborough's son said that his father died at lunchtime on Sunday.

In 2013 he was moved into a care home in west London, having suffered a stroke five years earlier that confined him to a wheelchair.

His family said last year that Attenborough never fully recovered from the stroke that left him in a coma for several days.

The director's first film behind the camera came in 1969 with Oh! What A Lovely War.

[silverscreenselect]

One of the best scenes in The Great Escape:



First Garner, now Attenborough. David McCallum may be the only cast member still alive.

[VAdame]

RIP.
Another one older than Mom gone now. Somehow, we forgot to include Mayor Sophie on the poster!

[Bob78164]

I think Gandhi may still be the only movie I've ever seen that included an intermission. --Bob

[Bob Juch]

I think Gandhi may still be the only movie I've ever seen that included an intermission. --Bob

Gone With the Wind has one.

[Estonut]

I think Gandhi may still be the only movie I've ever seen that included an intermission.

Dances with Wolves? I would have sworn that Schindler's List had one, too, but it is not included on a list that I found.

[Jeemie]

Reds

John Huston's The Bible...In the Beginning

I don't think Dances With Wolves had one...I could be wrong.

[Bob Juch]

Both Gettysburg and Gods and Generals had intermissions.

[silverscreenselect]

Both Gettysburg and Gods and Generals had intermissions.

Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet had an intermission. Unlike most versions of the play, he filmed it in its entirety, which runs nearly four hours.

[danielh41]

I went to a 50th anniversary screening of Lawrence of Arabia about a year and a half ago (if you ever get a chance to see LoA on the big screen, DO IT), and none of us knew quite what to do with ourselves during the intermission.

[smilergrogan]

I know one!

[silverscreenselect]

I went to a 50th anniversary screening of Lawrence of Arabia about a year and a half ago (if you ever get a chance to see LoA on the big screen, DO IT), and none of us knew quite what to do with ourselves during the intermission.

Much like Broadway musicals, some of those old road show films with intermissions had an overture and an entr'acte that played before the show or the second half started. Usually it was music from the movie's score. If you buy a DVD or Blu-ray of such a movie, they often include that music on the disc.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Reds

John Huston's The Bible...In the Beginning

I don't think Dances With Wolves had one...I could be wrong.

I've never been able to stay awake long enough to know if Dances With Wolves has an intermission