Chris Terrill

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chris Terrill
Occupation	Anthropologist
Date Of Birth	Feb 16, 1952(1952-02-16)
Age	72
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Aquarius

Chris Terrill Biography

Chris Terrill is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on February 16, 1952 in England, United Kingdom. Born at Brighton, Sussex, in 1952, Terrill attended Brighton College 1965-1970. After that, he went into Durham University, where he earned a joint honours qualification from the departments of Geography as well as Anthropology. In the years 1976-77,, he resided with the isolated Acholi Tribe of Southern Sudan where he did research for his doctoral thesis on the effects of war on tribe before taking on the role as the head of the geography department in Rendcomb College in Gloucestershire. The year 1983 was the time he quit teaching to become an anthropologist who worked full-time at the International Disaster Institute and the UN in Geneva and across the famine-stricken and war-ravaged regions of Africa. In the following years, he shifted into broadcasting following the offer of a position immediately following an interview for BBC Africa Service. BBC African Service. He changed jobs and became a producer of BBC World Service. BBC World Service specialising in African matters. After five years of radio, where he was a specialist in documentaries, current affairs and dramatics Terrill was recruited to BBC television as a documentary producer. producing documentaries, investigative and documentary films as well as series on communities from all over the world.

In 2009, Terrill created a series of photographs on The Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London that was titled Theatreland in 2009 for Sky Arts. This was a intimate portrayal of theatre professionals in action and included Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Anna Friel. The same year, he produced a two- part documentary series on Royal Marines, badly injured in Afghanistan trying to scale the mountains of the Himalayas (Wartorn Warriors, Sky1). In 2010, he was stationed for six months aboard HMS Manchester located in the Caribbean filming operations against narcotics and humanitarian disaster aid during storm season (Royal Navy: Caribbean Patrol for Channel Five and National Geographic). In the year 2011, Terrill returned to work as a member of members of the Royal Marines when he joined 42 Commando in the dangerous Nad e Ali (north) district of Helmand Province. It was part of a six-part series that was commissioned from Channel Five entitled “Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan” which aired during January / February of 2012.

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He was awarded an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalistic work in a documentary called Ape Trade. The Inside Story Special (BBC1) revealed the main gangs involved in that smuggle endangered orangutans into illegal markets in Taiwan as well as in the US in the US and Russia. Other notable series or films he created for the BBC included Subway, Yellow Line, Race Game, Miami Wild, HMS Brilliant, Alison’s Last Mountain, Beloved Country, Soho Stories (see below), The Cruise, Jailbirds Tito’s Stories, Through the Eyes of the Old and The Ship. After 20 years with the Corporation and with more than 100 prime-time films and many awards He left the company in 2003 following a head hunt from Elisabeth Murdoch for her newly established Shine company. For Shine, Terrill produced a number of prime-time films about music and the arts, as well as an important series on Navy personnel from the Royal Navy (Shipmates BBC1). Two years later Terrill set up his own company, Uppercut Films, and began to specialise in military and high adventure documentaries–though always concentrating on communities/groups and their internal dynamics. He filmed and took part in the intense eight-month training of members of the Royal Marine Commandos after which he accompanied newly- qualified recruits to the frontline in Afghanistan to experience their first exposure to real battle. Terrill was the sole civilian (and at the age of 55, the most senior) to complete all four tests for commandos in which he was given an honorary green beret.

Chris Terrill Net Worth

Chris Terrill is one of the richest Anthropologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Terrill 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Terrill creates his own camerawork and audio recording without the help of a film crew. The “lone wolf” technique is an integral part of the work he does. Using the new digital technology, he was the first mainstream filmmaker to experiment as a self-shooting/self-recording director in the mid 1990s when he made Soho Stories for the BBC; a series that won him the Royal Television Society Award for Innovation. The series, which focused on London’s famous and vibrant Soho district was among the first to be classified as docu-soap based on the style of filmmaking. Terrill later went on to perfect his technique for prime-time series like The Cruise (BBC1), Jailbirds (BBC1), Through the Eyes of the Old (BBC1), The Ship (BBC2), Shipmates (BBC 1) and two feature documentary specials about Charlotte Church: Spreading Her Wings (BBC1) and Confessions of an Anglophile Teenage (ITV1). Commando The Front Line Front Line (ITV1)–an account of Royal Marine Commandos’ combat on the front lines in Afghanistan is followed up by Nature’s Fury (ITV1) a series about the world’s most destructive storms and the impact they have on communities.

In 1999, Terrill got engaged during a brief time to the former fashion model Heather Mills. The couple proposed while on a fishing vessel while sailing along to the Mekong River , which flows through Cambodia in the middle of filming a documentary about landmines.

In late 2011 Terrill embarked on a project that brought together the military and the theatre. The Theatre Royal, Haymarket (where Terrill had filmed Theatreland in 2009) put on a play using injured soldiers and marines as the actors, singers, and dancers. The play, written by the poet Owen Sheers and based on the experiences of the soldiers mostly in Afghanistan, was called The Two Worlds of Charlie F and was performed on 22 January 2012. Terrill’s feature-length film entitled Theatre of War, documenting the preparation of the play, was shown on BBC1’s Imagine strand and was nominated for a prestigious Grierson Award in the best arts documentary category.

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Facts & Trivia

Chris Ranked on the list of most popular Anthropologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Chris Terrill celebrates birthday on February 16 of every year.

On 9 February 2013 Terrill received a full apology in open court from News Group for repeatedly hacking his phone in 2005/06. They also paid undisclosed but substantial damages plus costs.