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Aliases: Michael Gunton

Gender: Male

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Movie Involvements: 17

TV Involvements: 24


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Biography

Mike Gunton is a British television producer and a senior executive at the BBC Natural History Unit, the world's largest production unit dedicated to wildlife film-making. In November 2009 he became the Unit's first Creative Director. As Creative Director of BBC Studios Natural History Unit, he is responsible for bringing new and pioneering stories about the natural world to global audiences, including the BAFTA and Emmy winning Planet Earth II, which was viewed by millions worldwide. In 2018, his ground-breaking animal behaviours series, Dynasties, won a number of awards and was acclaimed by Sir David Attenborough as inventing a new genre in natural history film making. A fellow of the Royal Television Society, he also speaks internationally and is an ambassador for natural history making, BBC Studios and the natural world. He was the executive producer of Life, a nature documentary series which revealed the adaptive survival strategies of animals around the world, and as the co-author (with Martha Holmes) of the accompanying book. He co-directed (with Holmes) a feature film version of Life, and was the executive producer of a major BBC One series on African wildlife, broadcast in 2013. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Gunton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Prehistoric Planet
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8

Prehistoric Planet

(2022) Creator
Planet Earth
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9

Planet Earth

(2006) Executive Producer
Dynasties
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8

Dynasties

(2018) Executive Producer
Planet Earth III
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9

Planet Earth III

(2023) Executive Producer
Planet Earth II
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9

Planet Earth II

(2016) Executive Producer
Life Story
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8

Life Story

(2014) Producer
Life
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8

Life

(2009) Executive Producer
Africa
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8

Africa

(2013) Executive Producer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2025 Executive Producer
2024 Executive Producer
2023 Executive Producer
2022 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
2021 Executive Producer
2018 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
2017 Executive Producer
2016 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
2015 Executive Producer
2014 Producer
Producer
2013 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
2011 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
2009 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
2006 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
2005 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
2002 Executive Producer
1990 Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Producer
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Creator

Year Role Movie/Tv
2022 Creator
2005 Creator
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Directing

Camera

Year Role Movie/Tv
2014 Director of Photography
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2014 Writer
2011 Writer
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