Ask most moviegoers who Sir Richard Attenborough is, and you'll probably get many different answers. "Oh, that old geezer from Jurassic Park?", "He directed Gandhi, right?" or "Wasn't he Santa Claus?"

But for more serious viewers, Attenborough (or "Dickie" to his pals) is an actor, writer, producer and director, with an amazing career spanning nearly 60 years. He of the small, if robust stature, Attenborough, now 78, began his career in 1947's "Brighton Rock," then carved out a healthy niche as a character actor before turning to directing. Perhaps best known to modern audiences as "the evil Walt Disney" John Hammond in Spielberg's mega-hits "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World," Attenborough claims to have never even seen them!

With the recent DVD release of Gandhi, and the upcoming Hammond-less Jurassic Park 3, we chatted by phone with Attenborough from his native England. Still engaging, excitable and far strong than those many years his junior. Attenborough recalled one very brilliant, brilliant career...