Mike Gunton
Known For: Production
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.
Filmography
2026
2025
- The Americas ... (Executive Producer)
- Kingdom ... (Executive Producer)
- Planet Earth: Forces of Nature ... (Executive Producer)
2024
- Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster ... (Executive Producer)
- Planet Earth: Hostile Paradise or Perfect Hell? ... (Producer)
2023
- Planet Earth III ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- Prehistoric Planet ... (Executive Producer)
- The Green Planet ... (Executive Producer)
- Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History ... (Executive Producer)
2021
- The Year Earth Changed ... (Executive Producer)
2018
- Dynasties ... (Executive Producer)
- Big Cats ... (Executive Producer)
- Attenborough and the Sea Dragon ... (Executive Producer)
2017
- The Lake District: A Wild Year ... (Executive Producer)
2016
- Planet Earth II ... (Executive Producer)
- Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur ... (Executive Producer)
- Zoo Quest in Colour ... (Executive Producer)
- Wild Tales From The Village ... (Director)
2015
- Attenborough's Paradise Birds ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- Life Story ... (Director of Photography)
- Hidden Kingdoms ... (Executive Producer)
- Tiny Giants 3D ... (Writer)
2013
- Africa ... (Executive Producer)
- The Great British Year ... (Executive Producer)
2011
- Madagascar ... (Executive Producer)
- One Life ... (Writer)
- Attenborough and the Giant Egg ... (Executive Producer)
2009
- Life ... (Executive Producer)
- Yellowstone ... (Executive Producer)
2006
- Planet Earth ... (Executive Producer)
- Galapagos ... (Executive Producer)
2005
- Europe: A Natural History ... (Executive Producer)
- Wild Europe ... (Executive Producer)
2002
- Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television ... (Executive Producer)
1990
- Trials of Life ... (Director)
- The Making Of The Trials Of Life - Once More Into The Termite Mound ... (Producer)
- The Trials of Life ... (Director)