Richard Attenborough — another actor-turned director — also won the directing award for a best picture winner “Gandhi” (1982), as did James L. Brooks (“Terms of Endearment,” 1983 ...

Richard Attenborough, the U.K. movie director who chronicled the end of British colonial rule in India with his Oscar-winning epic “Gandhi” and performed in more than 50 films, has died. He ...

It would take Attenborough another couple of decades to find the necessary funding, but when he finally made “Gandhi” in 1982, it was worth the wait, both for him and for audiences worldwide.