After spending several decades working as a character actor, Richard Attenborough (born 1923) gained worldwide recognition when he won an Oscar as best director for the motion picture Gandhi, which he also produced. In all, this labor of love,...

Attenborough tells JAN GILBERT about his latest film and about what moves him to make cinema. CONSIDERING HIS MANY achievements, Richard Attenborough is an extraordinarily modest man. According to the 84-year-old actor/director, his films are not innovative, and he sees himself as a...

LONDON Richard Attenborough peppers his conversation freely with first names: Steven. Michael. Tony. The list goes on. (The references, in case you're wondering, are to Spielberg, Douglas and Hopkins.) But in Britain, there is only one "Dickie," as Attenborough is affectionately known....

A funeral service was held Thursday for Bertram "Jimmy" James, one of the few British prisoners to avoid being executed for joining in the "great escape" from a German prison in World War II.James, who was 92, died Jan. 18 at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in...

Ian Tapson, one of the last survivors of a team of World War II soldiers who planned and executed a breakout from a German POW camp later immortalized in the film "The Great Escape," has died. He was 84.Tapson died at Settler's Park, a retirement...