Chairman 1964–88, President 1988–2014, "Help a London Child". [10] His performance in The Angry Silence earned him his first nomination for a BAFTA. Never operated a camera in my life. When I call everyone "darling", it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. [56], On 13 July 2006, Attenborough, along with his brother David, were awarded the titles of Distinguished Honorary Fellows of the University of Leicester "in recognition of a record of continuing distinguished service to the university". Attenborough was the subject of This Is Your Life in December 1962 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Savoy Hotel, during a dinner held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap, in which he had been an original cast member. He also won four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and in 1983 he received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement. I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all. He was also the life president of Chelsea F.C. Early the following year, he left his post to return to full-time programme-making, leaving him free to write and present the planned natural history epic. Both he and his wife were among the original cast members of the production, which opened in 1952 and (as of 2007) is still running.In the 1960s, he expanded his range of character roles in films such as Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and Guns at Batasi (1964), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the regimental Sergeant Major. In his sixty-years-long acting career, he showed his versatility both on stage and on screen. He then volunteered to fly with the Film Unit and after further training, where he sustained permanent ear damage, qualified as a sergeant, flying on several missions over Europe filming from the rear gunner's position to record the outcome of Bomber Command sorties.[7]. Richard Attenborough, Actor: Jurassic Park. Waterford was one of his inspirations for directing Cry Freedom (1987), based on the life of Steve Biko.He was elected to the post of Chancellor of the University of Sussex on 20 March 1998, replacing the Duke of Richmond and Gordon. Because it's politics, it's period, it doesn't have any of the things that now are supposedly our prerequisites to commercial success. His later films as director and producer include Chaplin (1992) starring Robert Downey Jr., as Charlie Chaplin and Shadowlands (1993), based on the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham (C. S. Lewis was starred by Anthony Hopkins, who had appeared in four previous films for Attenborough: Young Winston, A Bridge Too Far, Magic and Chaplin).