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Alastair Fothergill
London, England, UK
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-aw…
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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 head of the Unit in 1992, and during his tenure he produced Attenborough's award-winning series Life in the Freezer. In June 1998, he stood down as head of the Unit to concentrate on his work on The Blue Planet. He has also presented several television programmes, including The Abyss and is the author of three books. He was awarded the "Clean Energy Award" by BMW during the Cinema for Peace award ceremony on 11 February 2008. In 2008, he signed a multi-picture deal with newly formed Disneynature, and now spends six months each year on sabbatical from the BBC developing feature documentaries as an independent producer. The first two titles under the Disneynature deal will be Big Cats and Chimpanzee, which he is co-directing with Keith Scholey and Mark Linfield respectively. He is also producing a new seven-part natural history series for the BBC called Frozen Planet, due for completion in 2011. The series will feature the struggles of charismatic animals during a time of rapid climate change in the polar regions. David Attenborough will again narrate. Fothergill currently lives in Bristol with his wife Melinda and his two sons, Hamish and William.
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2026
A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough
Movie Producer
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2026
Secrets of the Bees
TV show Producer
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2026
The Dinosaurs
TV show Executive Producer
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2025
Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles
TV show Executive Producer
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2024
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Life on Our Planet
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Hamza: Strictly Birds of Prey
Movie Producer
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2023
Wild Isles
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Polar Bear
Movie Director
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2022
Bear Witness
Movie Director
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2021
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
A Perfect Planet
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Movie Director
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2020
Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin in Conversation
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Penguins: Life on the Edge
Movie Self
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2020
Elephant
Movie Co-Director
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2019
Dancing with the Birds
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Penguins
Movie Producer
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2019
Our Planet
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes
Movie Producer
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2018
Dolphin Reef
Movie Co-Director
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2017
Blue Planet II
TV show Director
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2016
Planet Earth II
TV show Director
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2015
The Hunt
TV show Executive Producer
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2015
Monkey Kingdom
Movie Director
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2014
Bears
Movie Director
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2014
Best of Faszination Blauer Planet
Movie Director
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2012
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
Movie Executive Producer
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2012
Chimpanzee
Movie Director
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2011
Frozen Planet
TV show Executive Producer
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2011
African Cats
Movie Director
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2007
Earth
Movie Screenplay
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2007
Planet Earth: The Filmmaker's Story
Movie Self
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2006
Planet Earth: The Future
TV show Director
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2006
Planet Earth
TV show Producer
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2003
Deep Blue
Movie Director
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2002
The Abyss
Movie Self - Presenter
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2001
The Blue Planet
TV show Producer
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1993
Life in the Freezer
TV show Producer
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1990
The Trials of Life
Movie Producer
