Christopher Parsons, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Christopher Parsons

British television producer

Date of Birth: 23-Aug-1932

Place of Birth: Winchester, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 08-Nov-2002

Profession: television producer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Christopher Eugene Parsons OBE (23.
August 1932 in Winchester, Hampshire – 8 November 2002 in Littleton-upon-Severn, Gloucestershire) was an English wildlife film-maker and the executive producer of David Attenborough's Life on Earth, widely regarded as one of the finest and most influential of nature documentaries.
As a founding member and a former Head of the BBC Natural History Unit, he worked on many of its early productions and published a history of its first 25 years in 1982.
Besides television, he was also passionate about projects which helped to bring an understanding of the natural world to a wider audience, notably the Wildscreen Festival and ARKive.