The long awaited autobiography by one of the world's best-loved actors and directors.
Famous for more than sixty film performances, beginning in wartime
with In Which We Serve and continuing with such classics as
Brighton Rock, The Angry Silence, 10 Rillington Place, The Great
Escape, Miracle on 34th Street and Spielberg's Jurassic Park,
Richard Attenborough has always fought tenaciously for the survival
of British cinema. As a producer/director he has also been the
driving force behind Gandhi, Oh! What a Lovely War, A Bridge Too
Far, Cry Freedom and Shadowlands. He was knighted in 1976,
appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF in 1987 and became a
life peer in 1993. He has chaired numerous professional
organisations including Channel 4 Television and the British Film
Institute and, over the years, has worked tirelessly for a wide
range charities. Lord Attenborough died in August 2014 at the age
of 90.
Diana Hawkins, formerly a broadcaster and latterly a film producer,
wrote the storyline for Chaplin and, as Diana Carter, three novels
and a children's book. She is currently an executive director of
Dragon International Studios, a company chaired by Richard
Attenborough, which is building a new film making facility in South
Wales.
One of the most readable and entertaining showbusiness memoirs I
have read
*Sunday Express*
Classic Attenborough ... So riveting that I was up till 2am reading
it
*Guardian*
Marvellously readable. Attenborough's passion reverberates on the
page and the stories are good
*Daily Telegraph*
They make for enjoyable reading because Attenborough has had such a
rich and varied life
*Sunday Times*
Actor and director Richard Attenborough is a giant of British
cinema - and one of the best connected men in the world of
showbusiness ... Now he's telling his extraordinary story ...
Moving and enthralling
*Daily Mail*
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