Richard Attenborough, British actor and director of Oscar winning ‘Gandhi’, dies at 90. 7 Photos . Updated: 25 Aug 2014, 03:41 PM IST Livemint Richard Attenborough, the veteran actor and director who directed films like the 1982 Oscar winning 'Gandhi', and acted in many memorable films, passed away on Sunday. Here is a look at a career spanning almost 60 years 1/7Attenborough was warmly known as “Dickie Darling”. He was knighted in 1976, and acted in 45 movies before he turned to directing. AP 2/7Attenborough in a still from the 1947 film ‘Brighton Rock’, in which he gave one of the best performances of his career as the teenage thug Pinkie Brown. Photo: IMDb 3/7As the eccentric developer John Hammond in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993). Photo: IMDb 4/7Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin from the 1992 biopic directed by Attenborough. Photo: IMDb 5/7It was his 1982 cinematic tale about Mahatma Gandhi that won eight Academy Awards, including for best direction and best picture. Photo: IMDb 6/7Richard Attenborough with his two Oscars for “Gandhi” at the 55th Academy Awards in 1983. AP 7/7With his wife and actress Sheila Sim. The couple starred together in the original cast of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, a murder mystery that opened in 1952 and is still playing in London. AFP