Death of Richard Attenborough

August 29, 1923 - August 24, 2014
London, England | Age 90

Actor-director Richard Attenborough dies at 90
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By GREGORY KATZ and JAKE COYLE

Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Richard Attenborough was a lord, an Oscar-winning director for the much-lauded "Gandhi" and an unflagging pillar to British cinema. But Attenborough, who died Sunday at 90, was best known as Dickie.

Baby-faced as a young actor and whitely bearded in his older age, Attenborough — warmly known as "Dickie Darling" — presided over six decades of British moviemaking as both an actor and filmmaker with a...

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