David Fanning
Age: N/A | From: South Africa
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: South Africa
Homepage: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/executive-producer-david-fannin
Movie Involvements: 17
TV Involvements: 3
Most Famous Work
Biography
David Fanning has been executive producer of Frontline , America’s only regularly scheduled investigative documentary series on television, since its first season in 1983. The series has won all the major awards for broadcast journalism, including 34 Emmys, 23 duPont-Columbia University Awards, 12 Peabody Awards, and 11 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. In 2002, the series was honored with an unprecedented third Gold Baton from duPont-Columbia for its post September 11th coverage, a series of seven hour-long documentaries on the origins and impact of terrorism. In 2003, “A Dangerous Business,” a Frontline / New York Times joint investigation of the cast-iron pipe making industry, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service. Fanning began his filmmaking career as a young journalist in South Africa. He came to the US in 1973 and began producing and directing local and national documentaries for KOCE, a public television station in California. In 1977, Fanning came to WGBH Boston to start the international documentary series WORLD.
Most Famous Work
Frontline
(1983) Creator
Snitch
(2013) Executive Producer
President Biden
(2021) Executive Producer
America After 9/11
(2021) Executive Producer
Frontline: The Age of AIDS
(2006) Executive Producer
Dollars and Dentists
(2012) Executive Producer
Taliban Takeover
(2021) Executive Producer
Frontline: America's Great Divide
(2020) Executive ProducerActing
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| 1982 | Producer | |
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Writing
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Crew
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| 1983 | Creator | |
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Creator
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| 1983 | Creator | |
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