David Attenborough
Acting
1926-05-08 · London, England, UK
Sir David Attenborough (born 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.
Filmography
David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth
2026 · Movie
Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure
2026 · Movie
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
2026 · Movie
Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth
2026 · Movie
A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough
2026 · Movie
Secret Garden
2026 · Series
Wild London
2026 · Movie
Kingdom
2025 · Series
RTL Tonight
2025 · Series
Parenthood
2025 · Series
Ocean with David Attenborough
2025 · Movie
A Deeper Dive with David Attenborough
2025 · Movie
Simon Schama's Story of Us
2025 · Series
Attenborough's Life Journey
2024 · Movie
Asia
2024 · Series
Secret Lives of Orangutans
2024 · Movie
Fateful Planet
2024 · Series
Saving the Storks with Sir David Attenborough
2024 · Movie
Mammals
2024 · Series
Secret World of Sound
2024 · Series
Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster
2024 · Movie
David Attenborough: A Life on Earth
2023 · Movie
Planet Earth III
2023 · Series
Our Planet II
2023 · Series
Wild Isles
2023 · Series
How the BBC Began
2022 · Series
Frozen Planet II
2022 · Series
Prehistoric Planet
2022 · Series
Dinosaur Apocalypse
2022 · Movie
Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough
2022 · Movie
Great Mammoth Mystery
2022 · Movie
David Attenborough's Global Adventure
2022 · Series
The Green Planet
2022 · Series
Attenborough's Wonder of Song
2022 · Movie
Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard
2021 · Movie
The Mating Game
2021 · Series
The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
2021 · Series
Parkinson at 50
2021 · Movie
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet
2021 · Movie
Attenborough’s Journey
2021 · Movie
The Year Earth Changed
2021 · Movie
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021 · Series
Attenborough's Life in Colour
2021 · Series
A Perfect Planet
2021 · Series
Prince William: A Planet For Us All
2020 · Movie
Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime
2020 · Series
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
2020 · Movie
Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin in Conversation
2020 · Movie
Extinction: The Facts
2020 · Movie
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
2020 · Series
Planet Earth: A Celebration
2020 · Movie
Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments
2020 · Series
Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy
2020 · Movie
The Forum
2019 · Movie
Seven Worlds, One Planet
2019 · Series
The Living Thames
2019 · Movie
The Kiwi, The Knight and the Qashqai
2019 · Movie
Climate Change: The Facts
2019 · Movie
Our Planet
2019 · Series
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes
2019 · Movie
Blue Planet UK
2019 · Series
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time
2019 · Movie
Dragons and Damsels
2019 · Movie
Wild Karnataka
2019 · Movie
Whale Wisdom
2018 · Movie
Dynasties
2018 · Series
Into the Jungle
2018 · Movie
Deep Ocean: Descent into the Mariana Trench
2018 · Movie
David Attenborough's Tasmania
2018 · Movie
Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal
2018 · Movie
The Queen's Green Planet
2018 · Movie
Attenborough's Wonder of Eggs
2018 · Movie
Timelapse of the Entire Universe
2018 · Movie
Tomorrow's World: People of Science
2018 · Series
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
2018 · Movie
Deep Ocean: Giants of the Antarctic Deep
2018 · Movie
The Making of David Attenborough's Ant Mountain
2018 · Movie
Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants
2017 · Movie
Attenborough and the Giant Elephant
2017 · Movie
And the Winner Isn't
2017 · Movie
Blue Planet II
2017 · Series
Plants Behaving Badly
2017 · Series
Richmond Park National Nature Reserve
2017 · Movie
Hotel Armadillo
2017 · Movie
Puerto Rico: Island of Enchantment
2017 · Movie
Cheetahs: Growing Up Fast
2017 · Movie
Planet Earth II: A World of Wonder
2017 · Movie
Richard Batterham, Master Potter
2017 · Movie
Planet Earth II
2016 · Series
Jaguars: Brazil's Super Cats
2016 · Movie
Deep Ocean: Lights in the Abyss
2016 · Movie
Zoo Quest in Colour
2016 · Movie
Attenborough's Life That Glows
2016 · Movie
Attenborough at 90
2016 · Movie
Attenborough's Passion Projects
2016 · Series
Attenborough at 90: Behind the Lens
2016 · Movie
Wild City
2016 · Series
David Attenborough's Wild City
2016 · Series
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
2016 · Movie
Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough
2015 · Series
Reef Diaries
2015 · Movie
Cue the Queen: Celebrating the Christmas Speech
2015 · Movie
Cougars Undercover
2015 · Movie
The Hunt
2015 · Series
Afrique sauvage - L'avenir en marche
2015 · Movie
David Attenborough Meets President Obama
2015 · Movie
Attenborough's Big Birds
2015 · Movie
Legends of the Deep: Deep Sea Sharks
2015 · Movie
Africa's Fishing Leopards
2015 · Movie
Attenborough's Paradise Birds
2015 · Movie
David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies
2015 · Series
Deep Ocean
2015 · Series
Deep Ocean: The Lost World of the Pacific
2015 · Movie
Life Story
2014 · Series
Björk: Biophilia Live
2014 · Movie
Sir David Attenborough – A Life on Earth
2014 · Movie
Mountain Lions: Big Cats in High Places
2014 · Movie
Fabulous Frogs
2014 · Movie
The Bat Man of Mexico
2014 · Movie
Conquest of The Skies 3D
2014 · Movie
David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive
2014 · Movie
Autopsy on a Dream
2013 · Movie
David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates
2013 · Series
When Björk Met Attenborough
2013 · Movie
The Mating Game
2013 · Movie
Micro Monsters with David Attenborough
2013 · Series
Galapagos with David Attenborough
2013 · Movie
Edwardian Insects on Film
2013 · Movie
Legends of the Deep: The Giant Squid
2013 · Movie
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
2013 · Series
David Attenborough: The Early Years
2013 · Movie
Winterwatch
2013 · Series
Africa
2013 · Series
Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough
2013 · Series
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
2012 · Series
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
2012 · Movie
Attenborough's Ark
2012 · Movie
The Penguin King
2012 · Movie
Voice
2012 · Series
Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers
2012 · Movie
Kingdom of Plants
2012 · Series
Tales of Television Centre
2012 · Movie
Hot Tuna
2012 · Movie
Superfish: Bluefin Tuna
2012 · Movie
Secrets of Wild India
2012 · Series
Frozen Planet
2011 · Series
Brave New World with Stephen Hawking
2011 · Series
Animal House
2011 · Movie
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011 · Series
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
2011 · Series
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
2011 · Series
Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough
2011 · Movie
Desert Seas
2011 · Movie
The Secrets of Scott's Hut
2011 · Movie
Attenborough and the Giant Egg
2011 · Movie
Madagascar
2011 · Series
Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
2010 · Movie
First Life
2010 · Series
Attenborough's Journey
2010 · Movie
Jane Goodall - Beauty and the Beasts
2010 · Movie
Genius of Britain
2010 · Series
In Confidence
2010 · Series
Birds of Paradise
2010 · Movie
Water Life A World of Water
2009 · Movie
Life
2009 · Series
Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link
2009 · Movie
Nature's Great Events
2009 · Series
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
2009 · Movie
Skavlan
2009 · Series
NHKスペシャル 映像詩 里山II 命めぐる水辺
2008 · Movie
Clever Monkeys
2008 · Movie
Superfish
2008 · Movie
Tiger: Spy In The Jungle
2008 · Series
Life in Cold Blood
2008 · Series
Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth
2008 · Movie
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · Series
Attenborough Explores... Our Fragile World
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
Trek - Spy on the Wildebeest
2007 · Movie
The One Show
2006 · Series
Can We Save Planet Earth?
2006 · Movie
Are We Changing Planet Earth?
2006 · Series
Your Favourite Attenborough Moment
2006 · Movie
Gorillas Revisited with Sir David Attenborough
2006 · Movie
My Favourite Attenborough Moment
2006 · Movie
Planet Earth
2006 · Series
Desert Lions
2006 · Movie
Folk Britannia
2006 · Series
A War on Science
2006 · Movie
Life in the Undergrowth
2005 · Series
Kea: The Smartest Parrot?
2005 · Movie
Echo and Other Elephants
2005 · Series
Bears: Spy in the Woods
2004 · Movie
Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden
2004 · Movie
The Amber Time Machine
2004 · Movie
The Minsmere Year
2004 · Movie
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003 · Movie
Smart Sharks: Swimming With Roboshark
2003 · Movie
The Terry and Gaby Show
2003 · Series
Deep Blue
2003 · Movie
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
2002 · Movie
The Life of Mammals
2002 · Series
Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television
2002 · Movie
Attenborough the Controller
2002 · Movie
Great Natural Wonders of the World
2002 · Movie
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 · Series
The Blue Planet
2001 · Series
Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction
2000 · Movie
Lions: Spy in the Den
2000 · Movie
State of the Planet
2000 · Series
Living with Dinosaurs
2000 · Movie
The Lost Gods of Easter Island
2000 · Movie
The Song of the Earth
2000 · Movie
The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth
1999 · Movie
Tiger: The Elusive Princess
1999 · Movie
Islands of the Vampire Birds
1999 · Movie
Satoyama I: Japan's Secret Watergarden
1999 · Movie
The Life of Birds
1998 · Series
The Dragons of Galapagos
1998 · Movie
Parkinson
1998 · Series
Leopard: The Agent of Darkness
1997 · Movie
Humpback Whale: The Giant of the Oceans
1997 · Movie
Sperm Whales: Back from the Abyss
1996 · Movie
Attenborough in Paradise
1996 · Series
Attenborough in Paradise
1996 · Movie
Survival Island
1996 · Movie
World of Wildlife: African Big Cats
1995 · Movie
Wildlife Specials
1995 · Series
The Private Life of Plants
1995 · Movie
The Private Life of Plants
1995 · Series
Great White Shark - The Silent Stalker
1995 · Movie
Life in the Freezer
1993 · Series
Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea
1993 · Movie
Barn Owl: Bird of Darkness
1991 · Movie
The Making Of The Trials Of Life - Once More Into The Termite Mound
1990 · Movie
Trials of Life
1990 · Series
The Trials of Life
1990 · Movie
A TV Dante
1990 · Movie
Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives
1989 · Series
This Morning
1988 · Series
Going Live!
1987 · Series
The First Eden
1987 · Series
Birds of the Sun God
1987 · Movie
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · Movie
David Attenborough's Animals of the British Countryside - Land Mammals
1985 · Movie
The Million Pound Bird Book
1985 · Movie
Television
1985 · Series
Goldene Kamera
1984 · Series
The Living Planet
1984 · Series
Aliens From Inner Space
1983 · Movie
Natural World
1983 · Series
Nature
1982 · Series
Wogan
1982 · Series
General Studies: An Everyday Miracle
1981 · Movie
The Spirit of Asia
1980 · Series
Squirrel on My Shoulder
1979 · Movie
Life on Earth
1979 · Series
At Home with Badgers
1978 · Movie
Wildlife on One
1977 · Series
Fabulous Animals
1975 · Series
Explorers
1975 · Series
The Tribal Eye
1975 · Series
NOVA
1974 · Series
Eastward With Attenborough
1973 · Series
A Blank on the Map
1971 · Movie
Baobab: Portrait of a Tree
1971 · Movie
The Miracle of Bali
1969 · Series
The World About Us
1967 · Series
Omnibus
1967 · Series
Horizon
1964 · Series
Adventure
1963 · Series
Elsa the Lioness
1961 · Movie
The People of Paradise
1960 · Series
Science Is News
1959 · Series
Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958
1955 · Series
Zoo Quest to West Africa
1955 · Movie
The Ascent of Kangchenjunga
1955 · Movie
Zoo Quest
1954 · Series
Blue Planet III
Series
Flying Casanovas
Series