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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.
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...
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...
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...
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".
Sep 19, 2017 · Died: 26 August 2017, Kenya, aged 80. 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...
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.
