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Michael David Cobham (11 May 1930 – 25 March 2018) was a British film and TV producer and director, best known for the film ''
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''. He was also a
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Cricket career

Cobham was educated at
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, where he played for the school cricket team, before going up to
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to read natural sciences. He played
minor counties cricket The National Counties, known as the Minor Counties before 2020, are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that do not have first-class status. The game is administered by the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), which comes unde ...
for
Berkshire Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...
in the 1948
Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...
, making five appearances. He later made an appearance in
first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...
for the
Free Foresters Free Foresters Cricket Club is an English amateur cricket club, established in 1856 for players from the Midland counties of England. It is a 'wandering' (or nomadic) club, having no home ground. The Free Foresters were founded by the Rev. Will ...
against
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at
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in 1953. He bowled ten wicket-less overs in Cambridge University's first-innings, before taking the wickets of
Mike Bushby Michael Howard Bushby (29 July 1931 – 8 February 2020) was an English cricketer. He played 43 first-class matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club between 1952 and 1954. An opening batsman, Mike Bushby captained Cambridge University in ...
and
Dennis Silk Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk (8 October 193119 June 2019) was an English first-class cricketer and a public school headmaster. He was a close friend of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, of whom he spoke and wrote extensively. In the 1990s he chaired ...
in their second-innings to finish with figures of 2 for 21 from seven overs. He failed to score while batting, being dismissed in the Free Foresters' first-innings by Myles Arkell and
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in their second-innings.


Filmmaking career

Cobham directed the
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's first wildlife film ''Vanishing Hedgerows'' in 1972. He also directed and produced the children's TV series ''
Bernard's Watch ''Bernard's Watch'' (informally known as ''Bernard'' in the reboot series) is a British children's drama series about a young boy who could stop time with a magical pocket watch. The show was created by Andrew Norriss and was produced for seven ...
'', ''
Brendon Chase ''Brendon Chase'' is a children's novel by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writing as 'BB'. It was published in 1944 but is set at an earlier date. The novel is about three boys living wild in an English forest. It was later made into a 13-part TV ser ...
'', ''The Secret World of Polly Flint'', ''
Out of Sight ''Out of Sight'' is a 1998 American crime comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Frank, adapted from Elmore Leonard's 1996 novel of the same name. The first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and actor Georg ...
'', ''
Woof! ''Woof!'' is a British children's television series produced by Central Independent Television about the adventures of a boy who shapeshifts into a dog. It was based on the book by Allan Ahlberg. It was directed by David Cobham with the screenp ...
'' and the wildlife-orientated ''Seal Morning'' (1986). His wildlife films include ''The Goshawk'' (1968), and ''
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'' (1969), narrated by
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. He also directed a BBC series about Japan, ''In the Shadow of Fujisan'' (
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1987 and
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2009). Other projects included ''One Pair of Eyes'' (1970) about the sculptor
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, ''Survival in Limbo'' (1976) starring
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, and he was also the director/producer for BP's film of Donald Campbell's Land Speed Record attempt at Utah in 1960.


Books

Cobham's first book, ''A Sparrowhawk's Lament: How British Breeding Birds of Prey Are Faring'', was published in 2014; his next book, ''Bowland Beth: The Life of an English Hen Harrier'', a study of the persecution of the
hen harrier The hen harrier (''Circus cyaneus'') is a bird of prey. It breeds in Eurasia. The term "hen harrier" refers to its former habit of preying on free-ranging fowl. It migrates to more southerly areas in winter. Eurasian birds move to southern Eur ...
on the
grouse moors Driven grouse shooting is the hunting of the red grouse, a field sport of the United Kingdom. The grouse-shooting season extends from 12 August, often called the " Glorious Twelfth", to 10 December each year. Large numbers of grouse are driven to ...
of the
Forest of Bowland The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells and formerly the Chase of Bowland, is an area of gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England, with a small part in North Yorkshire (however ro ...
, was published in 2017.


Death

Cobham died of a stroke on 25 March 2018 at the age of 87. He is survived by his wife
Liza Goddard Louise Elizabeth Goddard (born 20 January 1950) professionally known as Liza Goddard, is an English television and stage actress, best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Goddard was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire.Before 1 ...
, ex-president of the Hawk and Owl Trust, of which he was vice-president.


References


External links

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David Cobham Youtube ChannelBFI Filmography
Cobham, David * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cobham, David 1930 births 2018 deaths People from Bridlington People educated at Stowe School Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge English cricketers Berkshire cricketers Free Foresters cricketers British film directors British film producers 20th-century British businesspeople