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Carl Sagan
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communic…
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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect. Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, Cosmos has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries. The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. He also wrote the science fiction novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Sagan licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Bookworms
Movie (himself)
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2024
Piece by Piece
Movie Carl Sagan (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
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2024
Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters
Movie Self
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2023
The Universe
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Linhas Cruzadas
TV show Novel
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2020
World
TV show Creator
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2018
The Farthest
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
Timelapse of the Entire Universe
Movie Self - Narrator (archive sound)
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2015
Star Stuff: A Story of Carl Sagan
Movie Writer
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2014
Wanderers
Movie Voice
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2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
TV show Himself (archive footage)
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2014
Cosmos
TV show Self (voice) (archive footage)
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2012
The Reality of Me
Movie Self
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2012
Owned & Operated
Movie Carl Sagan
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2006
An Inconvenient Truth
Movie Thanks
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1997
Contact
Movie Novel
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1997
Carl Sagan: A Cosmic Celebrity
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 1996
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1990
The Earth Day Special
Movie Self
- 1989
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1988
God, the Universe and Everything Else
Movie Self
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1987
Together to Mars?
Movie Self - Moderator
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1984
On the 8th Day
Movie Self
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1984
Threads
Movie Scientific Consultant
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1980
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
TV show Self - Host
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1980
Target... Earth?
Movie Self
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1977
The Case of the Ancient Astronauts
Movie Self
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1975
PBS News Hour
TV show Self - Cosmos (archive footage)
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1975
Who's Out There?
Movie Himself
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1974
NOVA
TV show
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1973
In Search of Ancient Astronauts
Movie Himself
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1969
The Violent Universe
Movie Narrator
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1967
The Phil Donahue Show
TV show Self
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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Pale Blue Dot
Movie Himself
