Directing

Armand Denis

Born 1896-12-02 · Brussels, Belgium

Armand Denis was a Belgian-born documentary filmmaker and television presenter. He is best known for his travel documentaries and wildlife films, particularly those focusing on Africa. Denis co-produced and presented the television series On Safari (1957–1965) with his wife, Michaela Denis, bringing the wonders of African wildlife and culture to a broad audience. His work played a significant role in popularizing the nature documentary genre.

Acting credits

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Armand and Michaela Denis visit the Barrier Reef and explore the mysteries of life there - animals, birds, fish and plants, the underwater life. Climax shows seabirds invading young turtles as they struggle to reach the sea.

On the Barrier Reef

1955

Savage Splendor poster
7.0

The film tells of the Armand Denis/Lewis Cotlow expedition that had the two men cover 22,000 miles through Tanganyika, Belgian Congo, and British East Africa. The high points of their ten-month trip are an impressive elephant hunt by the Pygmies of Belgian Congo, the crowning of King Mbofe Mabiashe and the capture of a rhino.

Savage Splendor

1949

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Married photographers Armand and Michaela Denis focus on Australian natives.

Under the Southern Cross

1954

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Armand Denis, who produced "Kriss" and "Goona-Goona" directed "Wild Cargo" and has traveled to every part of the world in search of new and sensational moving picture material and Miss Leila Roosevelt (Mrs. Denis), apioneer in long distance automobile travel who in 1933-34 drove 24.000 miles around the world decided to travel overland from Belgium across the whole width of the African continent to the Indian Ocean and back to Belgium.

Wheels Across Africa

1936

Below the Sahara poster
4.0

The photographic record of an African expedition led by producer-explorer Armand Denis and his (very) photogenic and camera-toting wife Michaela, who goes bird-riding at an ostrich farm. The expedition ranges from the central interior jungles and mountains to both coasts and as far south as Capetown, and ends with a gorilla hunt led by natives using 100-year-old muskets.

Below the Sahara

1953

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9.0

No white man has ever set foot beyond the coastal regions of New Guinea and so Armand and Michaela Denis determined to explore this virtually unknown territory. The film is the story of their adventures among natives whose colorful lives are based on brutal principles which have been unchanged for thousands of years and also of their expedition to the distant Waghi Valley where they found and photographed the rare and exotic bird of paradise.

Among the Headhunters

1955

Behind the camera

Dangerous Journey poster
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Expeditions to parts of North and South America, India and Burma (Myanmar). Record of a journey to illustrate the life of countries in which allied servicemen are stationed.

Dangerous Journey

1944

Dark Rapture poster
4.6

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Dark Rapture

1938

Dark Rapture poster
4.6

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Dark Rapture

1938

Dark Rapture poster
4.6

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Dark Rapture

1938

Kriss poster
6.5

The story of two young men, one a prince of royal Bali-blood and the other defined as a coolie, and they are both in love with Dasnee, a slave girl possessing the sensuous charms for which the women of Bali are known to have.

Kriss

1931

Kriss poster
6.5

The story of two young men, one a prince of royal Bali-blood and the other defined as a coolie, and they are both in love with Dasnee, a slave girl possessing the sensuous charms for which the women of Bali are known to have.

Kriss

1931

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Armand and Michaela Denis visit the Barrier Reef and explore the mysteries of life there - animals, birds, fish and plants, the underwater life. Climax shows seabirds invading young turtles as they struggle to reach the sea.

On the Barrier Reef

1955

Savage Splendor poster
7.0

The film tells of the Armand Denis/Lewis Cotlow expedition that had the two men cover 22,000 miles through Tanganyika, Belgian Congo, and British East Africa. The high points of their ten-month trip are an impressive elephant hunt by the Pygmies of Belgian Congo, the crowning of King Mbofe Mabiashe and the capture of a rhino.

Savage Splendor

1949

Savage Splendor poster
7.0

The film tells of the Armand Denis/Lewis Cotlow expedition that had the two men cover 22,000 miles through Tanganyika, Belgian Congo, and British East Africa. The high points of their ten-month trip are an impressive elephant hunt by the Pygmies of Belgian Congo, the crowning of King Mbofe Mabiashe and the capture of a rhino.

Savage Splendor

1949

Wild Cargo poster
8.0

A documentary film about adventures in the jungle featuring Frank Buck, a well-known American hunter, animal collector, writer, and actor in the 1930s. Buck demonstrates his ingenious methods for catching wild birds, mammals, and reptiles. Many scenes were shot on the vast Malay estates of Buck's friend, Sultan Ibrahim of Johor, who appears in the film himself.

Wild Cargo

1934

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9.0

Compilation of footage from three Frank Buck films about his adventures capturing animals for the world's zoos: "Bring 'Em Back Alive" (1933); "Wild Cargo" (1934); and "Fang And Claw" (1935).

Jungle Cavalcade

1941

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9.0

Married photographers Armand and Michaela Denis focus on Australian natives.

Under the Southern Cross

1954

No artwork available
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Armand Denis, who produced "Kriss" and "Goona-Goona" directed "Wild Cargo" and has traveled to every part of the world in search of new and sensational moving picture material and Miss Leila Roosevelt (Mrs. Denis), apioneer in long distance automobile travel who in 1933-34 drove 24.000 miles around the world decided to travel overland from Belgium across the whole width of the African continent to the Indian Ocean and back to Belgium.

Wheels Across Africa

1936

No artwork available
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Armand Denis, who produced "Kriss" and "Goona-Goona" directed "Wild Cargo" and has traveled to every part of the world in search of new and sensational moving picture material and Miss Leila Roosevelt (Mrs. Denis), apioneer in long distance automobile travel who in 1933-34 drove 24.000 miles around the world decided to travel overland from Belgium across the whole width of the African continent to the Indian Ocean and back to Belgium.

Wheels Across Africa

1936

Mystery of the Incas poster
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This documentary was made by the American Dodge Company in 1948-49 in order to promote the toughness of their trucks to North American, South American and Australian viewers. We see here rare scenes of Cuzco, Sacsayhuaman and other megalithic areas of Peru, Bolivia and other parts of South America. It is a great adventure into the mountains, jungles and deserts of South America! The film then moves on to Australia and the great wilderness of that country, still being explored in 1949!

Mystery of the Incas

1949

Below the Sahara poster
4.0

The photographic record of an African expedition led by producer-explorer Armand Denis and his (very) photogenic and camera-toting wife Michaela, who goes bird-riding at an ostrich farm. The expedition ranges from the central interior jungles and mountains to both coasts and as far south as Capetown, and ends with a gorilla hunt led by natives using 100-year-old muskets.

Below the Sahara

1953

Below the Sahara poster
4.0

The photographic record of an African expedition led by producer-explorer Armand Denis and his (very) photogenic and camera-toting wife Michaela, who goes bird-riding at an ostrich farm. The expedition ranges from the central interior jungles and mountains to both coasts and as far south as Capetown, and ends with a gorilla hunt led by natives using 100-year-old muskets.

Below the Sahara

1953

No artwork available
9.0

No white man has ever set foot beyond the coastal regions of New Guinea and so Armand and Michaela Denis determined to explore this virtually unknown territory. The film is the story of their adventures among natives whose colorful lives are based on brutal principles which have been unchanged for thousands of years and also of their expedition to the distant Waghi Valley where they found and photographed the rare and exotic bird of paradise.

Among the Headhunters

1955