Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934 – 1 October 2025), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall was best known for her 55+ year study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.

Filmography

• 2026Anyone lived in a pretty how town — Narrator
• 2024Humans and Other Animals — Elle-même
• 2024People & Wolves: a story of coexistence — Self - Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
• Jane — Jane Goodall
• 2021The Last Tourist — Self - Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute
• 2020Jane, un message d'espoir
• She Walks with Apes
• 2019Countdown to Year Zero
• 2017Jane — Self, Other
• 2015Me...Jane — voice
• 2015Trio. Jane's Music of Life
• 2010Life Is Bearable at Times...
• 2005Jane Goodall's When Animals Talk
• The Wild Thornberrys — Jane Goodall (voice)
• 1990Chimps: So Like Us
• You Rang, M'Lord? — Fighting Woman
• The Simpsons — Jane Goodall (voice)
• 1988People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe — Self, Writer
• 1973Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa — Narrator
• Howl — Executive Producer
• Howl — Producer
• Matriarch — Executive Producer
• Untitled Jane Goodall Film — Producer

Appearances as themselves (70)

• 2026Nature: The Call for Reconciliation — Self
• 2026The Vanishing Song — Self
• 2025Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall — Self
• 2025The Man Who Saves the World? — Self
• 2024A Life Among Elephants — Self - Interviewee
• La Revuelta — Self - Guest
• 2023Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope — Self
• Gutsy — Self
• 2021Animal — Self
• 2021Earth Emergency — Self
• Great Minds — Self
• 2021Menschenaffen — Self
• 2021Milked — Self
• 2021Planet Without Apes — Self
• Rescued Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane Goodall — Self
• Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis — Self
• 2021The Center: Gibbons and Guardians — Self
• 2021We Are Nature — Self
• 2020Corona: The Pandemic and the Pangolin — Self
• Dear... — Self
• 2020Food for Change — Self
• 2020Jane Goodall and the Guardians of Biodiversity — Self
• 2020Jane Goodall: The Hope — Self
• 2020Jane New Generation — Herself
• 2020Pant Hoot — Herself
• 2020Wild Daze — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• 2018Into the Jungle — Self
• 2018Jane Goodall: Saving Paradise — Self
• 2017Modified — Self
• 2016Attenborough at 90 — Self
• 2016H.O.P.E.: What You Eat Matters — Herself
• 2016Seed: The Untold Story — Self
• 2015Medicine of the Wolf — Herself
• 2015Racing Extinction — Self
• StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• 2015Time to Choose — Self
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Precht — Self
• Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words — Self
• 2011Jane's Journey — Self
• 2011Surviving Progress — Self
• 2010Jane Goodall - Beauty and the Beasts — Self
• Q&A — Self - Panellist
• 2006Historisk film om Dyreparken | Den levende Parken — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Jane Goodall's Return to Gombe — Herself
• 2003One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• ZIBB — Self
• 2002Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees — Self
• Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — herself
• Sternstunde Philosophie — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• Tigerenten Club — Self
• 199530 Years of National Geographic Specials — Self (archive footage)
• Gaia Symphony — Self
• 1990The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall — Self
• 1984Among the Wild Chimpanzees — Self
• Natural World — Self
• Nature — Self
• 60 Minutes — Self
• 1965Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees — Self
• National Geographic Specials — Self
• Horizon — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Bambi — Self
• Just Me, Jane — Self
• Moving Joy — Self