Gordon Buchanan

Acting

Gordon Buchanan

Born

1972-04-10 (54)

Place of birth

Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Gordon Buchanan is a Scottish wildlife film maker. He was born in Dumbarton on 10 April 1972 and brought up on the Isle of Mull. As a child, Buchanan was a fan of David Attenborough's television programmes and Survival, a nature programme.

Known for

The One Show poster
4.3

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

The One Show

2006

Nature poster
7.9

Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.

Nature

1982

Natural World poster
7.4

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.

Natural World

1983

Pointless Celebrities poster
6.3

Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.

Pointless Celebrities

2011

Springwatch poster
8.5

Springwatch is an annual BBC television series which charts the fortunes of British wildlife during the changing of the seasons in the United Kingdom.

Springwatch

2005

Winterwatch poster
8.2

Live coverage as our wildlife faces up to the most challenging time of year.

Winterwatch

2013

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

2000s · 3 titles

Series credits

The One Show poster
4.3

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

The One Show

2006

Nature poster
7.9

Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.

Nature

1982

Natural World poster
7.4

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.

Natural World

1983

Pointless Celebrities poster
6.3

Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.

Pointless Celebrities

2011

Springwatch poster
8.5

Springwatch is an annual BBC television series which charts the fortunes of British wildlife during the changing of the seasons in the United Kingdom.

Springwatch

2005

Winterwatch poster
8.2

Live coverage as our wildlife faces up to the most challenging time of year.

Winterwatch

2013

Autumnwatch poster
9.5

A spontaneous, sometimes humorous look at UK’s wildlife in autumn through conversations with experts and passionate amateurs.

Autumnwatch

2007

The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World poster
8.0

A new perspective on wildlife at night. A team of biologists and specialist camera crew explore the length of South and Central America to find out how animals have adapted to life in the dark.

The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World

2012

Lost Land of the Tiger poster
8.3

Documentary following a team of big cat experts and wildlife filmmakers as they embark upon a dramatic expedition searching for tigers hidden in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.

Lost Land of the Tiger

2010

Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom poster
9.0

For the first time in over 50 years, a team of wildlife film-makers and scientists has been granted access to venture deep into Burma's impenetrable jungles. Their mission is to discover whether these forests are home to iconic animals, rapidly disappearing from the rest of the world - this expedition has come not a moment too soon.

Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom

2013

Big Cats 24/7 poster
8.3

Follow the lives of lions, cheetahs and leopards in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, a place described as one of Africa's last wildernesses.

Big Cats 24/7

2024

Expedition Borneo poster
9.0

Wildlife adventure series following a team of explorers in the heart of the tropical island of Borneo.

Expedition Borneo

2007

Arctic Live poster
NR

Gordon Buchanan, Kate Humble and Simon Reeve head north to follow the remarkable story of polar bears and the Arctic.

Arctic Live

2016

Lost Land of the Jaguar poster
8.0

Series combining stunning wildlife with high octane adventure. A team of explorers search the depths of the last great unspoilt jungle on the planet.

Lost Land of the Jaguar

2008

Lost Land of the Volcano poster
8.0

An international team of scientists, cavers and wildlife filmmakers venture deep into the heart of the remote tropical island of New Guinea.

Lost Land of the Volcano

2009

Animals with Cameras poster
8.5

Go where no human cameraman can go and witness a new perspective of the animal kingdom in Animals with Cameras, A Nature Miniseries. The new three-part series journeys into animals’ worlds using custom, state-of-the-art cameras worn by the animals themselves. Capturing never-before-seen behavior, these animal cinematographers help expand human understanding of their habitats and solve mysteries that have eluded scientists until now. Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and a team of pioneering animal behaviorists join forces to explore stories of animal lives “told” by the animals themselves. The cameras are built custom by camera design expert Chris Watts to fit on the animals unobtrusively and to be easily removed at a later point. From this unique vantage point, experience the secret lives of nine different animal species. Sprint across the savanna with a cheetah, plunge into the ocean with a seal and swing through the trees with a chimpanzee.

Animals with Cameras

2018

Animal Babies poster
8.0

Documentary following young animals as they take their first steps and face their earliest challenges.

Animal Babies

2016

Our Changing Planet poster
6.8

An ambitious seven-year natural history series documenting six of the planet's most threatened ecosystems and meeting the people fighting to restore the Earth’s delicate balance.

Our Changing Planet

2022

Tribes, Predators, and Me poster
8.7

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the remotest regions on three continents to join three tribal families, learning their unique traditional survival skills and how they live alongside the world’s most iconic and dangerous animals.

Tribes, Predators, and Me

2016

Equator from the Air poster
6.0

In a defining moment for the natural world, Gordon Buchanan makes an epic journey round the equator - taking to the skies with experts racing to protect both wildlife and people.

Equator from the Air

2019

Maneater Manhunt poster
NR

In each and every one of these action packed hours, Gordon Buchanan is on a personal and dangerous mission to really KNOW a MANEATER -an animal that has killed or even eaten a human. But as populations of the planet's apex predators decrease, the number of attacks on humans increases. Buchanan wants to go to the places where man still battles beast and put himself 'directly in the path' of a predator to find out.

Maneater Manhunt

2012

Gordon Buchanan: Elephant Family & Me poster
8.5

Gordon Buchanan follows a herd of elephants in the Kenyan wilderness.

Gordon Buchanan: Elephant Family & Me

2016

The Bear Family and Me poster
7.3

Join wildlife cameraman, Gordon Buchanan, as he tries to gain the trust of a wild bear family in a spectacular American wilderness.

The Bear Family and Me

2011

Grizzly Bear Cubs and Me poster
7.0

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan helps to rehabilitate six orphaned baby grizzly bears into the Russian wilderness

Grizzly Bear Cubs and Me

2018

Snow Cats and Me poster
8.0

Gordon Buchanan helps cat expert Dr Victor Lukarevsky as he tries - for the first time ever - to rescue and rehabilitate lynx from the lucrative fur and pet trades back to the wild.

Snow Cats and Me

2019

Snow Wolf Family and Me poster
10.0

Gordon Buchanan travels to the remote Canadian Arctic in search of wolves that have never seen people.

Snow Wolf Family and Me

2014

Land of the Lost Wolves poster
7.5

Two-part natural history series following the fortunes of one very special pack of wolves as they return to North America's West Coast.

Land of the Lost Wolves

2012

The Polar Bear Family & Me poster
8.3

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan follows a wild polar bear family over three seasons in Svalbard.

The Polar Bear Family & Me

2013

Gorilla Family & Me poster
8.0

Gordon Buchanan travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet a family of rare Grauer's gorillas.

Gorilla Family & Me

2015

Cheetah Family & Me poster
10.0

Renowned wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan gets close to wild cheetah in the stunning Kalahari, experiencing first hand the very real dangers these beautiful big cats face.

Cheetah Family & Me

2021

Into the Wild with Gordon Buchanan poster
8.0

Gordon Buchanan takes some of our best-loved household names on a wildlife adventure where they get up close and personal with some of the UK's most iconic species.

Into the Wild with Gordon Buchanan

2016

Animals at Play poster
10.0

Young animals love nothing more than play. But science is now revealing the astonishing benefits animals gain from it. This series uncovers the secrets behind their games.

Animals at Play

2019

Behind the camera