Attenborough in hospital after fall

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The 85-year-old actor and director was forced to pull out of a plaque-unveiling ceremony on Thursday after suffering a fall.

A spokesman for St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London, said: "Richard Attenborough suffered a fall at his home and is receiving care at St George's Hospital. He is currently in a stable condition."

Lord "Dickie" Attenborough had been due to honour Brief Encounter star Dame Celia Johnson on the centenary of her birth.

A spokeswoman for the event said: "He had a fall and he wasn't able to do it.".

The English Heritage blue plaque was placed at 46 Richmond Hill in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, where she was born and lived until 1924.

Born in Cambridge in 1923, Lord Attenborough has championed the British film business through its triumphs and trials for more than 60 years as actor, Oscar-winning director and prolific movie-maker.

Gandhi is the highlight of his remarkable career, clinching eight Oscars, including best film and best director.

His breadth of canvas and concern for detail were at their most impressive here, with Attenborough displaying an uncanny knack to control some 400,000 extras at the recreation of Gandhi's funeral.

As an actor he was respected enough for top directors Satyajit Ray and Steven Spielberg to lure him out of self-imposed retirement to appear respectively in The Chess Players and the blockbuster Jurassic Park.