Alastair Fothergill

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1960-04-10 (65 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Alastair Fothergill

Biography

Alastair Fothergill (born 10 April 1960 in London the United Kingdom) is a producer of nature documentaries for television and cinema. He is the executive producer of the multi-award winning series The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006) and the co-director of the associated feature films Deep Blue and Earth. Fothergill attended Harrow. He studied zoology at St Cuthbert's Society in the University of Durham and made his first film, On the Okavango, while still a student. Fothergill joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1983, working on The Really Wild Show, Wildlife on One and David Attenborough's The Trials of Life. He was appointed...

Acting

Production

2007

Earth

as Screenplay

2007

Earth

as Director

2003

Deep Blue

as Director

2019

Dancing with the Birds

as Executive Producer

2022

Bear Witness

as Director

2012

Chimpanzee

as Director

2012

Chimpanzee

as Producer

2011

African Cats

as Director

2012

2014

Bears

as Director

2022

Polar Bear

as Director

2022

Polar Bear

as Producer

2024

2015

Monkey Kingdom

as Director

1990

2019

Penguins

as Producer

2019

Penguins

as Director

2018

Dolphin Reef

as Co-Director

2018

Dolphin Reef

as Producer

2020

Elephant

as Co-Director

2015

Monkey Kingdom

as Producer

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