David Attenborough

British broadcaster and naturalist

1926   -  

movement: environmentalism
country of citizenship: England
language of expression: English
educated at: University College London, Clare College, Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys
occupation: actor, film director, screenwriter, autobiographer, journalist, biologist, director, presenter, naturalist, television presenter, television director, environmentalist
award received: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Kalinga Prize, Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, Bodley Medal, Founder’s Medal, Cherry Kearton Medal and Award, Nierenberg Prize, International Cosmos Prize, Linnean Tercentenary Medal, Natural World Book Prize, Benjamin Franklin Medal, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Michael Faraday Prize, Fellow of the Zoological Society, Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Caird Medal, Honorary member of the British Ecological Society, Fonseca Prize, Knight Bachelor
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Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and natural historian. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the Life collection that together constitute a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. He is a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K. In 2018 and 2019, he received Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Narrator. He considers his 2020 documentary film, David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, his personal witness statement of his life and the future.Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in the UK, although he himself does not like the term. In 2002, he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide poll for the BBC. He is the younger brother of the late director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough, and older brother of the late motor executive John Attenborough.
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