Richard Attenborough he won back-to-back Golden Globe Awards in the category of Best Supporting Actor, the first time for "The Sand Pebbles", again co-starring Steve McQueen, and the second time for "Doctor Dolittle" starring Rex Harrison. He won the 1967 Best Supporting Actor Award for "The Sand Pebbles". His portrayal of the serial killer John Christie in "10 Rillington Place" (1971) garnered excellent reviews. In 1977, he played the ruthless General Outram, again to great acclaim, in the Indian director Satyajit Ray's period piece "The Chess Players". He took no acting roles following his appearance in Otto Preminger's version of "The Human
10 Rillington Place serious flaw of not even attempting to probe the reasons that turned a man into a monstrous pervert." Praise went to John Hurt for his "remarkably subtle and fascinating performance as the bewildered young man who plays into the hands of both the murderer and the police." Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" described "10 Rillington Place" as "a solemn, earnest polemic of a movie, one with very little vulgar suspense ... The problem with the film is very much the problem with the actual case, which involved small, unimaginative people." The film has since risen in stature with