Peter Crawford (fimmaker)
Peter Crawford is a British award-winning, freelance film-maker, author, photographer and lecturer.
He has been making films for more than 30 years[when?], but Crawford is perhaps best known for his natural history documentary films and TV series in the United Kingdom and United States including, in 1990, the first television series to attempt to comprehensively document North America's wildlife, Land of the Eagle (WNET New York) and in 1999; Living Britain (BBC 2), a series of ten 30 minute films which portrayed the natural history of Great Britain and Ireland. Living Britain was accompanied by a book written by Crawford which became a Number 1 Best Seller for BBC Books.
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Career
Although Crawford is now freelance and specialises in lecturing on his work as a film-maker and author whilst covering the people and the natural history of the Pacific ocean; he 'served' most of his career working in the world-renowned BBC Natural History Unit. Whilst there he was instrumental in bringing, via the television screen, a new-found interest in environmentalism and natural history to the living rooms of the United Kingdom.
Crawford studied Zoology and Marine Biology at the University of Exeter in England and made further studies in Anthropology at the University of Mainz in Germany. He joined the BBC in 1966.
Selected film and television works
Natural history
- Living Isles (1986)
- Land of the Eagle (1990 BBC/WNET New York)[1]
- Global Sunrise: Around the world in 80 minutes (1997, BBC 2)
- Living Britain (1999, BBC 2)
- Great Natural Wonders of the World (2002, BBC 2)
- Moonpower (2003, BBC 2)
Dramatised history
- Nomads of the Wind (1994, BBC 2)[2]
- The Forgotten Voyage (BBC 2)
- The Garden of Inheritance (BBC 2)
Written works
- In The Country (edited and compiled by Peter Crawford) (1980) ISBN 0-333-29325-8
- The Curious Cat (with Michael Allaby) (1982) ISBN 0-7181-2065-5
- The Living Isles (1985) ISBN 0-563-20369-2 (BBC Books) (winner of the 2001 BP Natural World book prize)
- Nomads of the Wind: A Natural History of Polynesia (1993) ISBN 0-563-36707-5 (BBC Books)
- Living Britain (1999) ISBN 0-563-38476-X (BBC Books)
See also
References
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