David Attenborough

1926-05-08 / London, England, UK

Biography

Sir David Attenborough (May 8, 1926) is a broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the respected face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 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 younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.

Appearances

This Morning (1988)

Life in Cold Blood (2008)

The One Show (2006)

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001)

Horizon (1964)

The Terry and Gaby Show (2003)

First Life (2010)

Attenborough's Life in Colour (2021)

Wildlife Specials (1995)

Life in the Undergrowth (2005)

State of the Planet (2000)

The Life of Mammals (2002)

Zoo Quest (1954)

Life in the Freezer (1993)

The Living Planet (1984)

Trials of Life (1990)

The Life of Birds (1998)

The Blue Planet (2001)

The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2007)

Life on Earth (1979)

Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives (1989)

Natural World (1983)

Nature's Great Events (2009)

The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet (2021)

The Tribal Eye (1975)

The People of Paradise (1960)

The First Eden (1987)

Are We Changing Planet Earth? (2006)

The Miracle of Bali (1969)

Life (2009)

The Jonathan Ross Show (2011)

Eastward With Attenborough (1973)

Tiger: Spy In The Jungle (2008)

Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958 (1955)

Madagascar (2011)

Africa (2013)

David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates (2013)

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)

David Attenborough's Global Adventure (2021)

NOVA (1974)

Nature (1982)

Life Story (2014)

David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities (2013)

Planet Earth (2006)

Frozen Planet (2011)

The Mating Game (2021)

The Hunt (2015)

David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies (2015)

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (2021)

Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough (2015)

Folk Britannia (2006)

Kingdom of Plants (2012)

Skavlan (2009)

Brave New World with Stephen Hawking (2011)

The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama (2020)

Planet Earth II (2016)

Prehistoric Planet (2022)

Micro Monsters with David Attenborough (2013)

Blue Planet UK (2019)

Blue Planet II (2017)

Tomorrow's World: People of Science (2018)

Wogan (1982)

Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough (2013)

Plants Behaving Badly (2017)

Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild (2012)

Planet Earth: The Future (2006)

Going Live! (1987)

Our Planet (2019)

Dynasties (2018)

Blue Planet III

Wild Isles (2023)

Frozen Planet II (2022)

Mammals (2024)

Attenborough's Passion Projects (2016)

The Private Life of Plants (1995)

Planet Earth III (2023)

Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words (2011)

Genius of Britain (2010)

Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1984)

Adventure (1963)

Seven Worlds, One Planet (2019)

Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime (2020)

The Graham Norton Show (2007)

The Green Planet (2022)

How the BBC Began (2022)

Science Is News (1959)

Deep Ocean (2015)

Wildlife on One (1977)

Voice (2012)

Secrets of Wild India (2012)

A Perfect Planet (2021)

Wild City (2016)

Asia (2024)

Prehistoric Planet (2002)

Parkinson (1998)

Attenborough in Paradise (1996)

Fabulous Animals (1975)

Simon Schama's Story of Us (2025)

Winterwatch (2013)

Parenthood (2025)

Secret World of Sound (2024)

Omnibus (1967)

Echo and Other Elephants (2005)