Mike Gunton
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.
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Michael Gunton![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/57Hih6kIaoxasdUXL8kv4cfOM8N.jpg)
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One Life
Director, Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/aexPAEjwbddslibmZGUyQhJJv2s.jpg)
Attenborough and the Giant Egg
Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/x185beLSDYDul11wCVgLtDcdbi5.jpg)
Attenborough's Paradise Birds
Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/l2gfipwIcEsTsilL6G4cVTj4NhO.jpg)
Tiny Giants 3D
Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/oAFPCDSU9bOzl4WDCkakeUyobDD.jpg)
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/qqeAwr24xllayxmS8Er7LTnFkfZ.jpg)
Wild Tales From The Village
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/1IbIkgBNA66EMGhoUKHHAVWh2UM.jpg)
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/tD6BxESRjgyqlGddWRCRUWOuCX5.jpg)
Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television
Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/icqVeNNQPZ6vzQFirqcAHGchHCB.jpg)
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/1IME8owI4Ws2RHJdadd2ufQBqEc.jpg)
Zoo Quest in Colour
Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/cLwQRXfzPjmpU6I78TCkoHazO0A.jpg)
The Year Earth Changed
Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/x8zfaxgCwtJQG37pgHHFcbb19gM.jpg)
The Lake District: A Wild Year
Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/2grRKMZaBxAEcQSDVZzJtaljI3Q.jpg)
Africa: The Greatest Show On Earth
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/gyuMKQDVCXTqPI2hvDqhCvnOoaU.jpg)
Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster
Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/vmngxEK7TiXI2udzJK28ZpZp9JJ.jpg)
The Trials of Life
Director, Producer