Original Attenborough, Richard Movie Posters

Richard Attenborough movie posters span one of British cinema's most distinguished dual careers — as a screen actor of immediate physical presence and great popular success, and as a director whose epic productions brought major historical subjects to the widest possible audiences.

As an actor, Attenborough created memorable portraits across four decades: the cowardly Pinkie in Brighton Rock (1947), the convict in The Great Escape (1963) — where his quiet authority as organisation man Roger Bartlett anchored the film's ensemble — the entrepreneur Hammond in Jurassic Park (1993), and dozens of character roles in between. His theatrical materials as actor span the full range of British and American genre filmmaking.

As director, Gandhi (1982) — the project he spent twenty years developing — swept eight Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, Ben Kingsley's central performance one of the most complete embodiments of a historical figure in cinema history. Cry Freedom (1987), Chaplin (1992), and Shadowlands (1993) continued his interest in historical biography with varying critical and commercial results. Each produced theatrical materials of considerable distinction. Original theatrical paper from Gandhi and Brighton Rock is now seldom found in fine condition.

Find original theatrical prints from across his remarkable dual career — as character actor of fifty years' standing and as director of some of the most ambitious British productions of the 1980s and 90s.

Browse alongside The Great Escape posters and Jurassic Park posters. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.