Neil Nightingale

Quick Facts

Full Name	Neil Nightingale
Occupation	Filmmaker
Date Of Birth	Feb 6, 1960(1960-02-06)
Age	64
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aquarius

Neil Nightingale Biography

Neil Nightingale is one of the most popular and richest Filmmaker who was born on February 6, 1960 in London, England, United Kingdom. Neil Nightingale, a freelance wildlife filmmaker, executive producer, and creative consultant, was born 6 February 1960. He has over 35 years of experience at BBC. He was the creative director for BBC Earth, BBC Worldwide’s global brand that covers all BBC science and nature content from 2009 to 2018.

As executive producer, he produced five episodes of BBC One’s Wildlife Specials. He was also the executive producer for several series in BBC Two’s Continents strand, including Wild Africa (and Wild Down Under). Nightingale was appointed Head of the Natural History Unit in 2003. This unit is the largest for wildlife filmmaking worldwide. From February 2003 to June 2009, he was the Unit’s Head.

In 2007, because of a lower than expected licence fee settlement, the BBC announced major cutbacks across its factual production departments, including budget and staff cuts at the Natural History Unit. The cutbacks were highly disapproved of by veteran broadcaster and natural history enthusiast David Attenborough, a long-time collaborator with the NHU.

Nightingale was a co-founder and vice chairman of the BBC Wildlife Fund, a conservation charity established in 2007. Its appeals raised over £3 million for endangered species conservation, and it has funded almost 90 projects in the UK and around the world.

Nightingale served as a trustee for Wildscreen from 2002 to 2009. Wildscreen is a charity that organizes the biennial Wildlife Film Festival in Bristol. Its ARKive project aims at creating an online database listing all endangered species around the globe.

Neil Nightingale Net Worth

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

Nightingale graduated from Wadham College in Oxford with a first-class degree in Zoology. He began his career as a science journalist freelance for New Scientist. In 1983, he joined BBC as an assistant producer and researcher in a range of television genres including science, education, current affairs and science.

Nightingale assumed the role of Series editor for The Natural World in 1995. This is BBC Two’s longest-running natural history series. The Natural World’s programs won awards at all major international wildlife film festivals and the Royal Television Society award as Best Documentary Strand under his editorship.

Under his leadership the Unit developed its reputation for innovative and ambitious natural history broadcasting. He oversaw well-received television series including Planet Earth (2006), Springwatch (2005), Wild China (2008) and Life (2009), as well as the Unit’s largest-ever radio production, World on the Move (2008), which followed migrating animals live, and Breathing Places, an ambitious multimedia campaign which successfully encouraged thousands of people to undertake hands-on activities with nature. He also moved the Unit into the field of feature films with Deep Blue (2003) and Earth (2007), both spin-offs from successful television series. Earth is the most successful documentary feature film produced in Britain ever.

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Neil Ranked on the list of most popular Filmmaker. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Neil Nightingale celebrates birthday on February 6 of every year.