David Attenborough

David Attenborough's biography

David Frederick Attenborough is 96 years old actor born at Isleworth. He was born on Saturday 8th of May 1926. David is often nicknamed as Sir David Frederick Attenborough, David Frederick Attenborough, David Attenborough. According to year of birth 1926 he belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 8th of May means David is Taurus. Taurus is most stable sign of Zodiac, that is the reason it is also included in the earthy sign of the Zodiac Belt. One born with this Moon Sign (Not a Rising Sign) is very stable and balanced through their mind.

He is native english speaker. He is white british. He is citizen of United Kingdom. He is atheist. David´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know David also as film director, screenwriter, autobiographer, journalist, biologist, director, presenter, naturalist, television presenter, television director, environmentalist. He is recently known as wildlife filmer.

David Attenborough's dad

David Attenborough's father's name is Frederick Attenborough.

David Attenborough's mom

David Attenborough's mother's name is Mary Clegg.

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David Attenborough's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: University College London, Clare College, Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys.

Detailed informations about his schools

He studied high school - Clare College, London School of Economics (Social Anthropology).

David studied university - Cambridge (Natural Sciences).

David Attenborough's career

His main focus is to be actor and conservation. You could see him also in Blue Planet II, Our Planet, Seven Worlds, One Planet and many more.

Awards and competitions

David Attenborough's Awards

• In the mid-1960s, he became the Controller of BBC2. Later, he became the BBC's Director of Programmes. The British Academy awarded David Attenborough the Desmond Davis Award in 1970, and a Fellowship in 1979.
• He was awarded the Order of Merit (OM) by Queen Elizabeth II in June 2005.
• He presented Pentangle with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2007.
• He was awarded the GCMG (Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George) in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to broadcasting and conservation.

What else you don't know about David Attenborough ?

His middle name is Frederick.

David Attenborough's quotes

• As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world . . . which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.
• Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
• It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
• There are moments when I wonder - moments when its (the BBC's) two senior networks, first set up as a partnership, schedule simultaneously programmes of identical character, thereby contradicting the very reason that the BBC was given a second network.
• There is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than any other animal I know.
• I've always found fossils very interesting. I also had newts and grass snakes and frogs which I kept in various aquaria when I was a boy. I spent a lot of time in the garden exploring.
• My shoes are very unfashionable shoes. I'm the last in a particular style that was established 30 years ago. People make different kinds of programmes now. I don't think anyone's trying to fill my shoes.
• [on serving as director of programmes across BBC TV between 1969 to 1973] It was very nice for me running a network for a few years, in the sense that it was very flattering for one's ego. But it's not much fun.
• I am a BBC man.
• The BBC is hard-pressed for money and it has to make strategic decisions as to what it's going to invest in.
• [at the UN Climate Change Conference, 2018] The collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.
• [on the global-warming challenge] I would much prefer not to be a placard-carrying conservationist. My life is the natural world. But I can't not carry a placard if I see what's happening.
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