David Attenborough
Acting
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.
TV Shows(109)
Secret Garden
Self - Presenter
2026
Kingdom
Self - Narrator (voice)
2025
RTL Tonight
Self
2025
Parenthood
Self - Narrator (voice)
2025
Simon Schama's Story of Us
Self - Reader
2025
Asia
Self : Presenter
2024
Fateful Planet
Self
2024
Mammals
Self - Narrator
2024
Secret World of Sound
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
Planet Earth III
Self - Presenter
2023
Wild Isles
Self - Presenter
2023
How the BBC Began
Self
2022
Frozen Planet II
Self - Presenter
2022
Prehistoric Planet
Self - Presenter
2022
David Attenborough's Global Adventure
Self
2022
The Green Planet
Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
The Mating Game
Self - Presenter
2021
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
Self
2021
Attenborough's Life in Colour
Self - Presenter
2021
A Perfect Planet
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime
Self
2020
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
Self
2020
Seven Worlds, One Planet
Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
Our Planet
Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
Blue Planet UK
Self
2019
Dynasties
Self - Narrator
2018
Tomorrow's World: People of Science
Self
2018
Blue Planet II
Self - Presenter
2017
Plants Behaving Badly
Self
2017
Planet Earth II
Self - Narrator
2016
Attenborough's Passion Projects
Self - Presenter
2016
Wild City
Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
David Attenborough's Wild City
Self - Narrator
2016
Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough
Self - Presenter
2015
The Hunt
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies
Self - Presenter
2015
Deep Ocean
Self - Narrator
2015
Life Story
Self - Presenter
2014
David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates
Self - Presenter
2013
Micro Monsters with David Attenborough
Presenter
2013
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
Self - Presenter
2013
Winterwatch
Self
2013
Africa
Self - Narrator (voice)
2013
Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough
Self - Presenter
2013
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
Self - Presenter
2012
Voice
2012
Kingdom of Plants
Self - Narrator
2012
Secrets of Wild India
Narrator
2012
Frozen Planet
Self - Narrator
2011
Brave New World with Stephen Hawking
Self
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
2011
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
Self
2011
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Self
2011
Madagascar
Self - Presenter
2011
First Life
Self - Presenter
2010
Genius of Britain
Self
2010
In Confidence
2010
Life
Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
Nature's Great Events
Self - Presenter
2009
Skavlan
Self - Guest
2009
Tiger: Spy In The Jungle
2008
Life in Cold Blood
Self - Narrator (voice)
2008
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The One Show
Self - Guest
2006
Are We Changing Planet Earth?
2006
Planet Earth
Self - Narrator
2006
Folk Britannia
Self
2006
Life in the Undergrowth
Self
2005
Echo and Other Elephants
Self - Narrator (voice)
2005
The Terry and Gaby Show
2003
The Life of Mammals
Self - Presenter
2002
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest
2001
The Blue Planet
Self - Narrator (voice)
2001
State of the Planet
Self - Presenter
2000
The Life of Birds
Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
Parkinson
Self
1998
Attenborough in Paradise
1996
Wildlife Specials
1995
The Private Life of Plants
Self - Presenter
1995
Life in the Freezer
Self - Presenter
1993
Trials of Life
Self - Narrator (voice)
1990
Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives
Presenter - Narrator
1989
This Morning
Self
1988
Going Live!
Self
1987
The First Eden
Presenter - Narrator
1987
Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
The Living Planet
Self
1984
Natural World
Presenter
1983
Nature
Narrator (voice)
1982
Wogan
Self
1982
Life on Earth
Self - Presenter
1979
Wildlife on One
Narrator
1977
Fabulous Animals
Self - Presenter
1975
The Tribal Eye
1975
NOVA
Narrator
1974
Eastward With Attenborough
1973
The Miracle of Bali
1969
The World About Us
Narrator
1967
Omnibus
Self
1967
Horizon
1964
Adventure
1963
The People of Paradise
1960
Science Is News
Self - Presenter
1959
Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958
1955
Zoo Quest
1954
Blue Planet III
Self - Presenter
Dynasties II
Movies(158)
David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth
Self
2026
Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure
Self
2026
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century
Self
2026
Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth
Self - Narrator (voice)
2026
A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough
Self
2026
Wild London
Self
2026
Ocean with David Attenborough
Self
2025
A Deeper Dive with David Attenborough
Self
2025
Attenborough's Life Journey
Self
2024
Secret Lives of Orangutans
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
Saving the Storks with Sir David Attenborough
Self - Narrator (voice)
2024
Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster
Self - Presenter
2024
David Attenborough: A Life on Earth
Self
2023
Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough
Self - Presenter
2022
Attenborough's Wonder of Song
Self - Presenter
2022
Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard
Self - Narrator
2021
Parkinson at 50
Self (archive footage)
2021
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet
Self - Narrator
2021
Attenborough’s Journey
Self
2021
The Year Earth Changed
Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Prince William: A Planet For Us All
Self
2020
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Self
2020
Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin in Conversation
Self
2020
Extinction: The Facts
Self - Presenter
2020
Planet Earth: A Celebration
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy
Self
2020
The Forum
Self
2019
The Living Thames
Self
2019
The Kiwi, The Knight and the Qashqai
Self
2019
Climate Change: The Facts
Self - Presenter
2019
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes
Self - Narrator
2019
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time
Self - Narrator (archive sound)
2019
Dragons and Damsels
Self - Narrator
2019
Wild Karnataka
Self - Narrator
2019
Whale Wisdom
Self - Narrator
2018
Into the Jungle
Self - Narrator
2018
Deep Ocean: Descent into the Mariana Trench
Self - Narrator
2018
David Attenborough's Tasmania
Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal
Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
The Queen's Green Planet
Self
2018
Attenborough's Wonder of Eggs
Self - Presenter
2018
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
Presenter
2018
Deep Ocean: Giants of the Antarctic Deep
Narrator
2018
The Making of David Attenborough's Ant Mountain
Self
2018
Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants
Self – Presenter
2017
Attenborough and the Giant Elephant
Self - Presenter
2017
And the Winner Isn't
Self
2017
Richmond Park National Nature Reserve
Self
2017
Hotel Armadillo
Self - Narrator
2017
Puerto Rico: Island of Enchantment
Self - Narrator
2017
Cheetahs: Growing Up Fast
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
Richard Batterham, Master Potter
Self
2017
Planet Earth II: A World of Wonder
Self - Presenter
2017
Jaguars: Brazil's Super Cats
Self
2016
Deep Ocean: Lights in the Abyss
Self - Narrator
2016
Zoo Quest in Colour
Self - Presenter
2016
Attenborough's Life That Glows
Self - Presenter
2016
Attenborough at 90
Self
2016
Attenborough at 90: Behind the Lens
Self
2016
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
Self - Presenter
2016
Cue the Queen: Celebrating the Christmas Speech
Self
2015
Cougars Undercover
Self
2015
David Attenborough Meets President Obama
Self
2015
Attenborough's Big Birds
Narrator
2015
Legends of the Deep: Deep Sea Sharks
Self - Narrator
2015
Africa's Fishing Leopards
Narrator (voice)
2015
Attenborough's Paradise Birds
Presenter - Narrator
2015
Deep Ocean: The Lost World of the Pacific
Self – Narrator
2015
Björk: Biophilia Live
Self - Opening Sequence (voice)
2014
Sir David Attenborough – A Life on Earth
David Attenborough
2014
Mountain Lions: Big Cats in High Places
Narrator
2014
Fabulous Frogs
Self - Narrator
2014
The Bat Man of Mexico
Self
2014
Conquest of The Skies 3D
自己
2014
David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive
Presenter
2014
Autopsy on a Dream
Self
2013
When Björk Met Attenborough
Self
2013
The Mating Game
Narrator
2013
Galapagos with David Attenborough
Self - Presenter
2013
Edwardian Insects on Film
Self
2013
Legends of the Deep: The Giant Squid
Self - Narrator
2013
David Attenborough: The Early Years
Self
2013
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
Self - Presenter
2012
Attenborough's Ark
Narrator
2012
The Penguin King
Self - Narrator
2012
Hummingbirds: Jewelled Messengers
Self - Narrator (voice)
2012
Tales of Television Centre
Self
2012
Hot Tuna
Narrator
2012
Superfish: Bluefin Tuna
2012
Animal House
Self
2011
Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough
Self - Presenter / Narrator
2011
Desert Seas
Self - Narrator (voice)
2011
The Secrets of Scott's Hut
Self
2011
Attenborough and the Giant Egg
Self - Presenter
2011
Mad and Bad: 60 Years of Science on TV
Self
2010
Attenborough's Journey
Self
2010
Jane Goodall - Beauty and the Beasts
Self
2010
Birds of Paradise
Self
2010
Water Life A World of Water
导演
2009
Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link
Self - Presenter / Narrator
2009
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
Presenter
2009
NHKスペシャル 映像詩 里山II 命めぐる水辺
Narrator
2008
Clever Monkeys
Narrator
2008
Superfish
Self - Narrator
2008
Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth
Narrator
2008
Attenborough Explores... Our Fragile World
Himself - Presenter
2007
Trek - Spy on the Wildebeest
2007
Can We Save Planet Earth?
2006
Your Favourite Attenborough Moment
Self (archive footage)
2006
Gorillas Revisited with Sir David Attenborough
Presenter
2006
My Favourite Attenborough Moment
Self (archive footage)
2006
Desert Lions
Self - Narrator (voice)
2006
A War on Science
Self
2006
Kea: The Smartest Parrot
Presenter
2005
Bears: Spy in the Woods
2004
Satoyama II: Japan's Secret Watergarden
Narrator
2004
The Amber Time Machine
Narrator
2004
The Minsmere Year
2004
The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough
2003
Smart Sharks: Swimming With Roboshark
Self
2003
Deep Blue
Self
2003
Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe
Self (voice)
2002
Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television
Self
2002
Attenborough the Controller
Self
2002
Great Natural Wonders of the World
Presenter
2002
Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction
Narrator
2000
Lions: Spy in the Den
Narrator
2000
Living with Dinosaurs
Presenter
2000
The Lost Gods of Easter Island
Himself - Presenter
2000
The Song of the Earth
Narrator
2000
The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth
Presenter - Narrator
1999
Tiger: The Elusive Princess
Narrator (voice)
1999
Islands of the Vampire Birds
Narrator
1999
Satoyama I: Japan's Secret Watergarden
Narrator
1999
The Dragons of Galapagos
Narrator
1998
Leopard: The Agent of Darkness
Self
1997
Humpback Whale: The Giant of the Oceans
Self
1997
Sperm Whales: Back from the Abyss
Narrator
1996
Attenborough in Paradise
Self - Narrator
1996
Survival Island
Narrator
1996
World of Wildlife: African Big Cats
Self - Narrator
1995
The Private Life of Plants
himself
1995
Great White Shark - The Silent Stalker
1995
Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea
Narrator
1993
Barn Owl: Bird of Darkness
1991
The Making Of The Trials Of Life - Once More Into The Termite Mound
Self
1990
The Trials of Life
Self - Presenter
1990
A TV Dante
Himself
1990
Birds of the Sun God
Narrator
1987
A Zed & Two Noughts
Himself - Documentary Narrator (voice)
1985
Aliens From Inner Space
Narrator
1983
General Studies: An Everyday Miracle
Narrator
1981
Squirrel on My Shoulder
Narrator
1979
At Home with Badgers
Narrator
1978
A Blank on the Map
Himself - Presenter
1971
Baobab: Portrait of a Tree
Narrator (voice)
1971
Elsa the Lioness
Self
1961
Zoo Quest to West Africa
Self
1955