The actor-director Richard Attenborough passed away in mid-2014. In 1977, as the story goes, Attenborough was sent the script of a film by a well-known director, who wasn't sure whether an actor of Attenborough's stature would read it.
To which Attenborough was to have said later that he would have even read a telephone directory if that reader had sent it to him. Which director was this?
This day last year: Q.1072