Johnny Kingdom
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Johnny Kingdom (born 23 February 1939) is an English wildlife filmmaker, specialising in his local area of Exmoor in north Devon.
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Kingdom has been a lumberjack,[1] a farm worker, a quarryman, a poacher, and for over 50 years the gravedigger for his local parish,[2] but his overriding passion is filming the wildlife on his beloved Exmoor. He has been making films for over 20 years, with series and documentaries being shown on a number of British television channels. He lives in the village of Bishop's Nympton.
His 2006 series Johnny Kingdom: A Year on Exmoor was shown on BBC Two and coincided with the publication of his autobiography Johnny Kingdom - A Wild Life on Exmoor. One-off programmes have also been shown featuring visits to Lapland and to the Scottish Highlands. A new BBC series, Johnny's New Kingdom, commenced in March 2008.[2] In this, having bought some land of his own, Kingdom sets out to make it a haven for as much local wildlife as he can. Johnny started his career in wildlife filming following a very bad accident whilst driving a tractor. The accident knocked him for six. After a short time, depression stepped in which led him to suffer a really bad time in the coming months.He had numerous amounts of kindness shown to him from persons from all kind's of walks in life. But none more than the man who changed his life, Roger Gregory. Roger lent Johnny his video camera, and this started Johnny on his way to a very successful life in wildlife filming, and he has never looked back ever since. Johnny has now purchased 55 acres of land in his beloved Exmoor,and has devoted it all,to wildlife. Johnny Kingdom: A Year on Exmoor has been shown on UKTV People & UKTV Gardens part of the UKTV Network.
[edit] References
- ^ Sale, Jonathan (2006) "My First Job: Johnny Kingdom, the wildlife film-maker, was a lumberjack", The Independent, 23 November 2006, retrieved 2011-07-17
- ^ a b Billen, Andrew (2008) "Horizon; Johnny's New Kingdom; Monster Moves", The Times, 5 March 2008, retrieved 2011-07-17
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