Tributes flow for Richard Attenborough, actor and director
Richard Attenborough, the British actor and Oscar-winning director of Gandhi, known for his warmth and work for humanitarian causes
Richard Attenborough was a lord, the Oscar-winning director of Gandhi and an unflagging pillar to British cinema. But Attenborough, who died on Sunday at 90, was best known as Dickie.
Baby-faced as a young actor and white-bearded in his old age, Attenborough presided over six decades of British moviemaking as both an actor and filmmaker with a genial warmth that endeared him to his fans and fellow actors.
"I have no great interest in being remembered as a great creative filmmaker," he told The New York Times when Gandhi was released in 1982.
"I want to be remembered as a storyteller."
The actor's son, Michael Attenborough, told the BBC that his father had been in poor health for some time.
