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Survival (TV Series)
''Survival'' is one of television's longest-running and most successful nature documentary series. Originally produced by Anglia Television for ITV in the United Kingdom, it was created by Aubrey Buxton (later Baron Buxton of Alsa), a founder director of Anglia TV, and first broadcast in 1961.Willock, pp10-14Walshe, Bevan, Sealy, Phillipson p88 ''Survival'' films and film-makers won more than 250 awards worldwide, including four Emmy AwardsWalshe, Bevan, Sealy, Phillipson p82 and a BAFTA. The original series ran for 40 years during which nearly 1,000 shows were produced. It was one of the UK's most lucrative television exports, with sales to 112 countries; the highest overseas sales of any British documentary programme. It became the first British programme sold to China (1979), the first to be broadcast simultaneously across the continent of North America (1987)Walshe, Bevan, Sealy, Phillipson p172 and its camera teams were the first to shoot a major wildlife series in the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nature Documentary
A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentrating on video taken in their natural habitat but also often including footage of trained and captive animals. Sometimes they are about wildlife or ecosystems in relationship to human beings. Such programmes are most frequently made for television, particularly for public broadcasting channels, but some are also made for the cinema medium. The proliferation of this genre occurred almost simultaneously alongside the production of similar television series. History In cinema Robert J. Flaherty's 1922 film '' Nanook of the North'' is typically cited as the first feature-length documentary. Decades later, Walt Disney Productions pioneered the serial theatrical release of nature-documentaries with its production of the True-Life Adventures series, a collection of fourteen full length and short subject nature films from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partridge Films
Partridge Films (also known as Partridge Productions) is a British TV/film production company based in Bristol, England. It specializes in wildlife programs and is a part of United Wildlife, a United News and Media Company. The company is known for the children's series ''Animal Alphabet'' which aired on Nick Jr. and Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service .... The company was founded by Michael Rosenberg in 1974; during his time there Partridge Films produced some high quality wildlife documentaries such as “Etosha – Place of Dry Water”, “Fragile Earth” and "Korup – An African Rainforest"; Rosenberg won two Emmy Awards and the company won a Queen's Award for Export Achievement. In 1996, he sold his shares to UNMC. On 7 May 2002, Michael Rosenberg was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor, director, and producer. One of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actors, he is known for his performances on the screen and stage. Hopkins has received many accolades throughout his career, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, a British Academy Television Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Niven
James David Graham Niven (; 1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was a British actor, soldier, memoirist, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Major Pollock in '' Separate Tables'' (1958). Niven's other roles included Squadron Leader Peter Carter in '' A Matter of Life and Death'' (1946), Phileas Fogg in '' Around the World in 80 Days'' (1956), Sir Charles Lytton ("the Phantom") in '' The Pink Panther'' (1963), and James Bond in '' Casino Royale'' (1967). Born in London, Niven attended Heatherdown Preparatory School and Stowe School before gaining a place at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After Sandhurst, he joined the British Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry. Upon developing an interest in acting, he found a role as an extra in the British film ''There Goes the Bride'' (1932). Bored with the peacetime army, he resigned his commission in 1933, relocated to New York, then travelled to Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor. He had a career that spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. He cultivated an everyman screen image in several films considered to be classics. Born and raised in Nebraska, Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. He rose to film stardom with performances in films like '' Jezebel'' (1938), ''Jesse James'' (1939), and '' Young Mr. Lincoln'' (1939). His career further progressed with his portrayal of Tom Joad in ''The Grapes of Wrath'' (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1941, Fonda starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy classic '' The Lady Eve''. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring roles in two highly regarded Westerns: ''The Ox-Bow Incident'' (1943) and ''My Darling Clementine'' (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also starred in Ford's Western '' Fort Apache'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. While in his 20s, Welles directed high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project, including an adaptation of ''Macbeth'' with an entirely African-American cast and the political musical '' The Cradle Will Rock''. In 1937, he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory theatre company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941, including ''Caesar'' (1937), an adaptation of William Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar''. In 1938, his radio anthology series ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' gave Welles the platform to find international fame as the director and narrator of a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel ''The War of the Worlds'', which caused s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Miles (filmmaker)
Hugh Miles is a British filmmaker who specialises in wildlife films. Hugh spent most of his school holidays - he attended King's Ely - carrying out conservation work at RSPB reserves, and decided on a career as a wildlife filmmaker after watching Eric Ashby on television in the early 1960s. After first going to film college, Miles got a job at the Film Unit in Ealing and worked there for nearly nine years. Miles was then able to combine his interest in filmmaking with his passion for conservation by joining the RSPB. Here, Miles was in charge of producing one hundred minutes of film a year and would try to get stories about birds on television as often as possible by producing press releases for the national news, which would be viewed by over 10 million people. Miles went freelance in the mid-1970s, with his first job being to film for the seminal BBC wildlife series '' Life on Earth''. Much of Hugh's success has stemmed from his use of a technique, learnt from J. A. Baker's b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Buxton
Lucinda Catherine "Cindy" Buxton FRGS (born 21 August 1950)Debretts1769.comBuxton of Alsa, Barony of retrieved 9 June 2022 is a British wildlife film-maker, photographer and author. Background and education The third of the six children of Lord Buxton of Alsa (founder of Anglia Television and the television series ''Survival'') and Pamela Mary Birkin, daughter of Sir Henry Birkin,Debretts onlineBirkin, Bt, of Ruddington Grange, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire (UK) 1905 retrieved 9 June 2022 she was educated at New Hall School, Chelmsford, Essex. Professional career Buxton's first wildlife film was released in 1971, when she was just 21 years old. She later became involved in filming wildlife documentary films (chiefly for her father's nature documentary television series ''Survival''). In 1978 she co-wrote the first scientific paper about the shoebill, in Zambia. Her 1980 book "Survival in the Wild" is about her first 8 years in Africa. During a filming expedition on South Georgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Allan
Douglas Allan (born 1951) is a Scottish wildlife cameraman and photographer best known for his work in polar regions and underwater. Biography Allan is one of twin brothers born in Dunfermline in Scotland, the son of a photographer and photojournalist who ran his own photography shop in the town. As a child Allan became a keen snorkeller and underwater diver, which inspired him to study marine biology at the University of Stirling. His first job was as a pearl diver with Bill Abernathy, the last pearl hunter in Scotland. Allan then worked for eight years for the British Antarctic Survey in Antarctica as a research diver, scientist and photographer. Becoming a full time cinematographer in 1985, Allan has been a principal cameraman on many BBC wildlife programmes, particularly concerning extreme environments, including Life in the Freezer, Wildlife Special: Polar Bear, The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, and Frozen Planet. Allan has won eight Emmys including "Outstanding Cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Plage
Dieter or dieter may refer to: * A person committed to dieting People Dieter is a German given name (), a short form of Dietrich, from ''theod+ric'' "people ruler", see Theodoric. Given name * Dieter Althaus (born 1958), German politician *Dieter Bohlen (born 1954), German music producer *Dieter Borsche (1909–1982), German actor *Dieter Brummer (1976–2021), Australian actor * Dieter Dengler (1938–2001), American Vietnam War veteran *Dieter Dierks (born 1943), German musician * Dieter Eiselen (born 1996), South African American football player *Dieter Gerhardt (born 1935), Soviet spy *Dieter Hallervorden (born 1935), German comedian * Dieter Thomas Heck (1937–2018), German television presenter, singer and actor *Dieter Helm (1941–2022), German farmer and politician * Dieter Hoeneß (born 1953), German football (soccer) player * Dieter Kühn (born 1956), East German football (soccer) player * Dieter Lüst (born 1956), German physicist * Dieter Meier (born 1945), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jen Bartlett
Jen Bartlett (born Jen Edmondson) was a former tennis player and an Australian filmmaker who worked on nature documentary series such as Survivors of the Skeleton Coast. In 1959 she married a fellow filmmaker Des Bartlett. The couple lived on the Skeleton Coast, southwest coast of Namibia, for nine years while filming for the National Geographic. They were jointly awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award The Cherry Kearton Medal and Award is an honour bestowed by the Royal Geographical Society on "a traveller concerned with the study or practice of natural history, with a preference for those with an interest in nature photography, art or cinemato ... in 1974. Works * '' Flight of the Snow Geese'' (1972) References External links * Jen Bartlett's WildFilmHistory bioSurvivors of the Skeleton Coast Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) British film directors Living people {{Australia-film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Des Bartlett
Norman Desmond Bartlett (2 April 1927 – 12 September 2009) was an Australia filmmaker who worked on nature documentary series' such as ''Survival''. Early life Bartlett was born on 2 April 1927 at Canungra, Queensland, Australia. His father had Australia's largest collection of butterflies and introduced Bartlett to natural history. Works *'' Flight of the Snow Geese'' (1972) Awards He was married to fellow filmmaker Jen Bartlett. They were jointly awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award The Cherry Kearton Medal and Award is an honour bestowed by the Royal Geographical Society on "a traveller concerned with the study or practice of natural history, with a preference for those with an interest in nature photography, art or cinemato ... in 1974. See also * Survival (TV series) References External links *Des Bartlett's WildFilmHistory bio 1927 births 2009 deaths Australian film producers {{Australia-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
