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 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.
Filmography
all 41
Movies 27
Director 20
Producer 17
TV Shows 14
self 1
Creator 1
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (2024)
Life on Our Planet (2023)
Hamza: Strictly Birds of Prey (2023)
Wild Isles (2023)
Polar Bear (2022)
Bear Witness (2022)
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (2021)
A Perfect Planet (2021)
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin in Conversation (2020)
Penguins: Life on the Edge (2020)
Elephant (2020)
Dancing with the Birds (2019)
Penguins (2019)
Our Planet: Behind The Scenes (2019)
Our Planet (2019)
Dolphin Reef (2018)
The Hunt (2018)
Blue Planet II (2017)
Planet Earth II (2016)
The Hunt (2015)
Monkey Kingdom (2015)
Bears (2014)
Best of Faszination Blauer Planet (2014)
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild (2012)
Chimpanzee (2012)
Frozen Planet (2011)
African Cats (2011)
Earth (2007)
Planet Earth: The Filmmaker's Story (2007)
Planet Earth: The Future (2006)
Planet Earth (2006)
Natural World: Desert Lions (2006)
Deep Blue (2003)
Abyss Live (2002)
The Abyss (2002)
The Blue Planet (2001)
Life in the Freezer (1993)
The Trials of Life (1990)
Natural World (1983)
Our Planet II
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1960-04-10 (63 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known As알래스테어 포더길
AwardsPatron’s Medal, Cherry Kearton Medal and Award, Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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