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

• 2018Attenborough and the Sea Dragon — Presenter
• 2018Deep Ocean: Giants of the Antarctic Deep — Narrator
• 2017Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants — Self – Presenter, Writer
• Planet Earth II — Self - Narrator, Casting
• Wild City — Self - Narrator (voice), Presenter
• 2016Zoo Quest in Colour — Self - Presenter, Sound Recordist
• 2015Africa's Fishing Leopards — Narrator (voice)
• 2015Afrique sauvage - L'avenir en marche — Presenter
• 2015Attenborough's Big Birds — Narrator
• 2015Attenborough's Paradise Birds — Presenter - Narrator
• David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies — Self - Presenter, Writer
• Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough — Self - Presenter, Writer
• 2014Conquest of The Skies 3D — 自己, 编剧
• 2014David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive — Presenter, Writer
• 2014Mountain Lions: Big Cats in High Places — Narrator
• 2014Sir David Attenborough – A Life on Earth — David Attenborough, Self, Writer, Director, Presenter
• Africa — Self - Narrator (voice), Writer
• David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates — Self - Presenter, Screenplay
• Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough — Self - Presenter, Writer
• 2013Galapagos with David Attenborough — Self - Presenter, Writer
• Micro Monsters with David Attenborough — Presenter
• 2013The Mating Game — Narrator
• 2012Attenborough's Ark — Narrator, Writer
• 2012Hot Tuna — Narrator
• Secrets of Wild India — Narrator
• 2012Superfish: Bluefin Tuna
• Voice
• 2011Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough — Self - Presenter / Narrator, Writer
• Frozen Planet — Self - Narrator, Writer
• First Life — Self - Presenter, Writer
• In Confidence
• 2009Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life — Presenter, Writer
• 2009Water Life A World of Water — 导演
• 2008Clever Monkeys — Narrator
• Life in Cold Blood — Self - Narrator (voice), Writer
• 2008NHKスペシャル 映像詩 里山II 命めぐる水辺 — Narrator
• 2008Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth — Narrator
• Tiger: Spy In The Jungle
• 2007Trek - Spy on the Wildebeest
• Are We Changing Planet Earth?
• 2006Can We Save Planet Earth?
• 2006Desert Lions — Self - Narrator (voice), Script Consultant
• 2006Gorillas Revisited with Sir David Attenborough — Presenter
• Planet Earth — Self - Narrator, Writer
• Life in the Undergrowth — Self, Writer
• 2004Bears: Spy in the Woods
• 2004Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden — Narrator
• 2004The Amber Time Machine — Narrator
• 2004The Minsmere Year
• 2003Deep Blue — Self, Writer
• 2003The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
• The Terry and Gaby Show
• 2002Great Natural Wonders of the World — Presenter
• The Life of Mammals — Self - Presenter, Writer
• 2000Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction — Narrator, Writer
• 2000Lions: Spy in the Den — Narrator
• 2000Living with Dinosaurs — Presenter
• State of the Planet — Self - Presenter, Writer
• 2000The Lost Gods of Easter Island — Himself - Presenter, Screenplay
• 2000The Song of the Earth — Narrator, Writer
• 1999Islands of the Vampire Birds — Narrator (voice), Writer
• 1999Satoyama I: Japan's Secret Watergarden — Narrator
• 1999The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth — Presenter - Narrator
• 1999Tiger: The Elusive Princess — Narrator (voice)
• 1998The Dragons of Galapagos — Narrator (voice)
• The Life of Birds — Self - Narrator (voice), Writer
• 1996Attenborough in Paradise — Self - Narrator, Writer
• Attenborough in Paradise — Writer
• 1996Sperm Whales: Back from the Abyss — Narrator
• 1996Survival Island — Narrator, Writer
• 1995Great White Shark - The Silent Stalker
• The Private Life of Plants — Self - Presenter, Writer
• Wildlife Specials
• 1993Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea — Narrator
• Life in the Freezer — Self - Presenter, Writer
• 1991Barn Owl: Bird of Darkness
• Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives — Presenter - Narrator
• 1987Birds of the Sun God — Narrator
• The First Eden — Presenter - Narrator
• 1985David Attenborough's Animals of the British Countryside - Land Mammals — Narrator
• Television
• 1985The Million Pound Bird Book — Presenter, Writer
• The Living Planet — Self, Writer
• 1983Aliens From Inner Space — Narrator
• Natural World — Presenter, Narrator (voice), Self - Host, Self - Narrator, Writer
• Nature — Narrator (voice), Host, Self
• 1981General Studies: An Everyday Miracle — Narrator
• Life on Earth — Self - Presenter, Writer
• 1979Squirrel on My Shoulder — Narrator
• 1978At Home with Badgers — Narrator
• Wildlife on One — Narrator
• Fabulous Animals — Self - Presenter, Creator
• The Tribal Eye
• NOVA — Narrator, Writer
• Eastward With Attenborough
• 1971A Blank on the Map — Himself - Presenter, Screenplay
• 1971Baobab: Portrait of a Tree — Narrator (voice)
• The Miracle of Bali
• The World About Us — Narrator
• The World Around Us — Creator
• Adventure
• 1961Elsa the Lioness — Self, Producer
• The People of Paradise
• 1955The Ascent of Kangchenjunga — Producer
• Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958
• 1955Zoo Quest to West Africa — Self, Writer, Producer
• Zoo Quest
• Flying Casanovas — Creator

Appearances as themselves (174)

• 2026A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough — Self
• 2026David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth — Self
• 2026Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2026Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure — Self
• 2026Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century — Self
• Secret Garden — Self - Presenter
• 2026Wild London — Self
• 2025A Deeper Dive with David Attenborough — Self
• Kingdom — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2025Ocean with David Attenborough — Self
• Parenthood — Self - Narrator
• RTL Tonight — Self
• Simon Schama's Story of Us — Self - Reader
• Asia — Self : Presenter
• 2024Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster — Self - Presenter
• 2024Attenborough's Life Journey — Self
• Fateful Planet — Self
• Mammals — Self - Narrator
• 2024Saving the Storks with Sir David Attenborough — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2024Secret Lives of Orangutans — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Secret World of Sound — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2023David Attenborough: A Life on Earth — Self
• Our Planet II — Self - Narrator (Voice)
• Planet Earth III — Self - Presenter
• Wild Isles — Self - Presenter
• 2022Attenborough's Wonder of Song — Self - Presenter
• David Attenborough's Global Adventure — Self
• 2022Dinosaur Apocalypse — Self - Host
• 2022Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough — Self - Presenter
• Frozen Planet II — Self - Presenter
• 2022Great Mammoth Mystery — Self - Host
• How the BBC Began — Self
• Prehistoric Planet — Self - Presenter
• The Green Planet — Self - Narrator (voice)
• A Perfect Planet — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2021Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard — Self - Narrator
• Attenborough's Life in Colour — Self - Presenter
• 2021Attenborough’s Journey — Self
• 2021Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet — Self - Narrator
• Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World — Self
• 2021Parkinson at 50 — Self (archive footage)
• The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet — Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Mating Game — Self - Presenter
• 2021The Year Earth Changed — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2020David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet — Self
• 2020Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy — Self
• 2020Extinction: The Facts — Self - Presenter
• Gay Byrne's Late Late Moments — Self - Guest (archive footage)
• Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime — Self
• 2020Planet Earth: A Celebration — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2020Prince William: A Planet For Us All — Self
• 2020Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin in Conversation — Self
• The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama — Self
• Blue Planet UK — Self
• 2019Climate Change: The Facts — Self - Presenter
• 2019Dragons and Damsels — Self - Narrator
• Our Planet — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2019Our Planet: Behind the Scenes — Self - Narrator
• Seven Worlds, One Planet — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2019The Forum — Self
• 2019The Kiwi, The Knight and the Qashqai — Self
• 2019The Living Thames — Self
• 2019Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time — Self - Narrator (archive sound)
• 2019Wild Karnataka — Self - Narrator
• 2018Attenborough's Wonder of Eggs — Self - Presenter
• 2018David Attenborough's Tasmania — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2018Deep Ocean: Descent into the Mariana Trench — Self - Narrator
• Dynasties — Self - Narrator
• 2018Into the Jungle — Self - Narrator
• 2018Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2018The Making of David Attenborough's Ant Mountain — Self
• 2018The Queen's Green Planet — Self
• 2018Timelapse of the Entire Universe — Self - Narrator (archive sound)
• Tomorrow's World: People of Science — Self
• 2018Whale Wisdom — Self - Narrator
• 2017And the Winner Isn't — Self
• 2017Attenborough and the Giant Elephant — Self - Presenter
• Blue Planet II — Self - Presenter
• 2017Cheetahs: Growing Up Fast — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2017Hotel Armadillo — Self - Narrator
• 2017Planet Earth II: A World of Wonder — Self - Presenter
• Plants Behaving Badly — Self
• 2017Puerto Rico: Island of Enchantment — Self - Narrator
• 2017Richard Batterham, Master Potter — Self
• 2017Richmond Park National Nature Reserve — Self
• 2016Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur — Self - Presenter
• 2016Attenborough at 90 — Self
• 2016Attenborough at 90: Behind the Lens — Self
• 2016Attenborough's Life That Glows — Self - Presenter
• Attenborough's Passion Projects — Self - Presenter
• David Attenborough's Wild City — Self - Narrator
• 2016Deep Ocean: Lights in the Abyss — Self - Narrator
• 2016Jaguars: Brazil's Super Cats — Self
• 2015Cougars Undercover — Self
• 2015Cue the Queen: Celebrating the Christmas Speech — Self
• 2015David Attenborough Meets President Obama — Self
• Deep Ocean — Self - Narrator
• 2015Deep Ocean: The Lost World of the Pacific — Self – Narrator
• 2015Legends of the Deep: Deep Sea Sharks — Self - Narrator
• 2015Reef Diaries — Self - Narrator
• The Hunt — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2014Björk: Biophilia Live — Self - Opening Sequence (voice)
• 2014Fabulous Frogs — Self - Narrator
• Life Story — Self - Presenter
• 2014The Bat Man of Mexico — Self
• 2013Autopsy on a Dream — Self
• David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities — Self - Presenter
• 2013David Attenborough: The Early Years — Self
• 2013Edwardian Insects on Film — Self
• 2013Legends of the Deep: The Giant Squid — Self - Narrator
• 2013When Björk Met Attenborough — Self
• Winterwatch — Self
• 2012Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild — Self - Presenter
• Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild — Self - Presenter
• 2012Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Kingdom of Plants — Self - Narrator
• 2012Tales of Television Centre — Self
• 2012The Penguin King — Self - Narrator
• All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace — Self
• 2011Animal House — Self
• 2011Attenborough and the Giant Egg — Self - Presenter
• Brave New World with Stephen Hawking — Self
• 2011Desert Seas — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words — Self
• Madagascar — Self - Presenter
• The Jonathan Ross Show — Self
• 2011The Secrets of Scott's Hut — Self
• 2010Attenborough's Journey — Self
• 2010Birds of Paradise — Self
• Genius of Britain — Self
• 2010Jane Goodall - Beauty and the Beasts — Self
• 2010Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV — Self
• Life — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Nature's Great Events — Self - Presenter
• Skavlan — Self - Guest
• 2009Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link — Self - Presenter / Narrator
• 2008Superfish — Self - Narrator
• 2007Attenborough Explores... Our Fragile World — Himself - Presenter
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006A War on Science — Self
• Folk Britannia — Self
• 2006My Favourite Attenborough Moment — Self (archive footage)
• The One Show — Self - Guest
• 2006Your Favourite Attenborough Moment — Self (archive footage)
• Echo and Other Elephants — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2005Kea: The Smartest Parrot? — Self - Narrator
• Parkinson — Self - Guest
• 2003Smart Sharks: Swimming With Roboshark — Self
• 2002Attenborough the Controller — Self
• 2002Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television — Self
• 2002Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe — Self (voice)
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self - Guest
• The Blue Planet — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Parkinson — Self
• 1997Humpback Whale: The Giant of the Oceans — Self
• 1997Leopard: The Agent of Darkness — Self
• 1995The Private Life of Plants — himself
• 1995World of Wildlife: African Big Cats — Self - Narrator
• 1990A TV Dante — Himself
• 1990The Making Of The Trials Of Life - Once More Into The Termite Mound — Self
• 1990The Trials of Life — Self - Presenter
• Trials of Life — Self - Narrator (voice)
• This Morning — Self
• Going Live! — Self
• 1985A Zed & Two Noughts — Himself - Documentary Narrator (voice)
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Wogan — Self
• The Spirit of Asia — Self
• Explorers — Self - Narrator
• Omnibus — Self
• Horizon — Self, Himself / Narrator
• Science Is News — Self - Presenter
• Blue Planet III — Self - Presenter