David Attenborough
Presenter, TV Program Creator
1926 –
Who is David Attenborough?
Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FZS FSA is an English broadcaster and naturalist.
His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for 60 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also 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, and 3D.
Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not like the term. In 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. He is a younger brother of the director, producer, and actor Richard Attenborough.
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- Born
- May 8, 1926
Isleworth - Also known as
- David Frederick Attenborough
- Sir David Attenborough
- Sir David Attenborough CBE
- Sir David Frederick Attenborough
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Orie
(1950 - 1997)
- Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Orie
- Children
- Religion
- Agnosticism
- Ethnicity
- British people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Bachelor of Science, Clare College, Cambridge
Natural science - University College London
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College
- Employment
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- Royal Navy
(1947 - 1949)
- Lived in
- Richmond, London
- London
- Leicester
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on July 23, 2013
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