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Alastair David William Fothergill (born 10 April 1960) is a British producer of nature documentaries for television and cinema. He is the series producer of the series The Blue Planet (2001), Planet Earth (2006) and the co-director of the associated feature films Deep Blue and Earth.




Early life and education


Born in London, Fothergill attended Orley Farm School and Harrow School. He studied zoology at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham at Durham University and made his first film, On the Okavango, while still a student.




Career


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.
He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award in 1996.
In June 1998, he stood down as head of the Natural History Unit to concentrate on his work as series producer on the multi-award-winning The Blue Planet. In 2006 he completed his next major series Planet Earth, which won the Cinema for Peace Clean Energy Award at the Cinema for Peace Gala Berlin in 2008.
More recently he was executive producer of Frozen Planet (2011) and The Hunt (2015).
He has also presented several television programmes, including The Abyss and is the author of five books.
In 2008, he signed a multi-picture deal with newly formed Disneynature. The first few titles under the Disneynature deal had been, for now, African Cats (2011), Chimpanzee (2012), Bears (2014), Penguins (2019), Dolphin Reef (2020), and Polar Bear (2022) co-directed with Keith Scholey, Mark Linfield, and Jeff Wilson.
In 2012 he left the BBC to co-found Silverback Films with Keith Scholey. Silverback Films makes landmark natural history series for a variety of clients including Netflix ( Our Planet, Our Planet 2 and Life On Our Planet) and the BBC ( The Mating Game and Wild Isles).
In 2016, Fothergill was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society for his work in natural history programming. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to film.




Personal life


Fothergill lives in Bristol with his wife Melinda (née Barker) and two sons, Hamish and William.




Film and television credits


The Really Wild Show (1986) – producer
Wild Britain (1987) – producer
Reefwatch (1988) – associate producer
Wildlife on One (1988–92) – producer
The Trials of Life (1990) – assistant producer
Life in the Freezer (1993) –series producer
Natural World, episode "South Georgia: An Island All Alone" (1998) – producer
The Blue Planet (2001) – series producer
Going Ape (2002) – presenter (with Saba Douglas-Hamilton)
The Abyss – Live (2002–2003) – executive dog and presenter (with Michael deGruy, Kate Humble and Peter Snow)
Deep Blue (2003) – writer and director (with Andy Byatt)
Planet Earth (2006) – series producer
Earth (2006) – writer and director (with Mark Linfield)
Frozen Planet (2011) – executive producer
African Cats (2011) – writer and director (with Keith Scholey)
Chimpanzee (2012) – writer and director (with Mark Linfield)
Dolphin Reef (2013) - director (with Keith Scholey)
Bears (2014) - director (with Keith Scholey)
The Hunt (2015) – executive producer
Our Planet (2019) - executive producer
Penguins (2019) – director (with Jeff Wilson)
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet (2020) - executive producer
Polar Bear (2022) – director (with Jeff Wilson)
Life on Our Planet - executive producer (with Steven Spielberg, Keith Scholey, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey)




References






External links


Alastair Fothergill at IMDb

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