Gordon Buchanan
Wildlife Film Maker

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan has spent the last seventeen years filming the wild, the weird and the wonderful animals that we share the planet with. Travelling to some of the most remote areas he captures images that inspire the wonder and awe of the natural world.

With a reputation for dangerous and tough assignments Gordon spends much of the year in the wildest and most extreme parts of the world filming and presenting some of the BBC’s top Wildlife programmes. His free time is spent at home with his wife Wendy and two children Lola and Harris.

Productions 2009:

Presenter-Cameraman on BBC’s Expedition Papua New Guinea 

Presenter SpringWatch

Credits 2000 – 2008:

Presenter/Cameraman ‘Lost Land Of the Jaguar’ BBC NHU/Discovery 

Presenter and cameraman for BBC’s SpringWatch & AutumnWatch

Presenter/Cameraman on ‘Amba the Russian Tiger’ for Animal Planet

Cameraman on BBC’s LIFE series

Presenter/Cameraman AutumnWatch ‘Fox Diary’

Presenter/Cameraman ‘Expedition Alaska’ Indus Fims/Discovery

Presenter ‘Search For Killer Whales’ BBC NHU Wild

Presenter SpringWatch ‘Fox Diary’

‘Wild China’ Cameraman for wild Panda sequences BBC NHU

‘Big Cat Week’ Specialist leopard & sync photography. 

Cameraman ‘Sea Birds’ BBC Natural World

Presenter/Cameraman on ‘Expedition Borneo’ BBC NHU

Presenter/Cameraman on BBC NHU ‘WILD Puma’. TX Autumn 2006.

Cameraman/Presenter on BBC NHU Autumn Watch ‘Seal Diary’. TX October 2006. 

Cameraman ‘Planet Earth: Jungles’ Colugo sequence.

Natural World: ‘EAGLE ISLAND’

Director & Cameraman/Presenter on a 50 min human interest/wildlife film on the Isle Of Mull for BBC2.

‘Tiger Zero’ Photography for Mike Birkhead/BBC. 

'Big Cat Week' Specialist Leopard & sync photography in 2004 for BBC NHU. 

Natural World: 'TIGERS OF THE EMERALD FOREST’

Director/Cameraman in North Central India. 50mins for BBC2 

‘Wild Scotland' Presenter/Photography (2002) 5 x 10min Series for BBC WILD. 

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Special commission

Presenter/Specialist photography for film about four of Scotland's top National Nature Reserves. 

Natural World: ‘LEOPARD HUNTERS' 

Photography/Presenter (2001) Natural World Mike Birkhead Associates/NHU. 

‘Massive Nature: Wildebeest’ BBC 

‘Big Cat Family Histories’ BBC

'Wild West Country' Presenter/Cameraman on 5x10min for BBC WILD.

Serengeti: ‘Hunters of the Night' 

Additional photography (2000) 50min Ammonite/Granada. 

'Parrot Passions' Photography (2000). 50min for Survival Anglia. 

Credits 1990 – 1999

'A Tale of Two Families' Cameraman (1999) 50min – Partridge/Discovery 

'Reptiles' Cameraman (1999) Partridge Films 

'Wildcat' Cameraman (1998) 30min Performance Films

'Northern Hights' Cameraman (1998) 30min Performance Films

'Highland Game' Cameraman (1998) 30min Performance Films 

'Blizzard - Violent Earth' Cameraman 50min Discovery

'Tsunami - Violent Earth' Cameraman 50min Discovery

'Faces In the Forest' Camera Assistant 50 min Survival Anglia Ltd.

'Place and People' Sound Recordist 5 x 30min Granada/CH4

'Arctic Migration' Sound Recordist/Camera Assistant 50min Survival Anglia Ltd.

'Small is Beautiful' Cameraman 30 min BBC Scotland

'Living Colour' Cameraman 30 min BBC Scotland

'Savage Skies: A Winters Tale' Cameraman 50min Granada Television

'The Web of the Spider Monkey' Camera Assistant 50 min Survival Anglia Ltd.

'Creatures of the Magic Waters' Camera Assistant 50 min Survival Anglia 

'Giant Tarantula' Camera Assistant 50 min Survival Anglia Ltd.

'Tiwai Island of the Apes' Camera Assistant 50 min Survival Anglia Ltd.

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