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Alan Root (12 May 1937, London – 26 August 2017) was a British-born filmmaker who worked on nature documentary series such as Survival. Until 1990 he was married to Joan Root, who was a Kenyan-born conservationist, murdered at Lake Naivasha in 2006.
Alan Root was one of the great wildlife film-making pioneers. His unmatched experience of East African wildlife and appetite for risk made him a world-class naturalist and filmmaker. "Dusty Feathers and Unlikely Fingers" is an updated version of Alan's 2012 autobiography "Ivory, Apes & Peacocks".
Aug 29, 2017 · Alan Root, an innovative wildlife filmmaker with a daredevil streak and the scarred body to prove it, died on Saturday in Kenya, where he lived on the edge of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy near...
Sep 3, 2017 · Alan Root, a wildlife filmmaker who splashed through crocodile-infested rivers, piloted hot-air balloons over stampeding wildebeests, and lost a “Coke bottle”-size chunk of his calf to an angry...
Alan Root was born on 12 May 1937 in London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978) and Here be dragons (1990). He was married to Joan Root, Fran Michelmore and Jenny Hammond.
- Cinematographer, Producer, Director
- May 12, 1937
- Alan Root
- August 26, 2017
Sep 19, 2017 · Alan Root was a self-effacing, scar-ridden, pioneering wildlife filmmaker, who was one of the first to bring Africa’s wildlife to our screens on ITV’s long running Survival programme, and...
Aug 29, 2017 · Alan Root, who has died aged 80, made, with his first wife Joan, some of the most highly acclaimed wildlife documentary films to emerge from the continent of Africa; one profile...
