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Colin Willock

Colin Willock

Editorial Department, Writer, Producer

Born January 13, 1919 in UK

Died March 26, 2005

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A pioneer of Anglia Television's flagship wildlife documentary series Survival (1961), Colin Willock was born in Finchley, north London, where a science teacher at Tonbridge School inspired his love of natural history. Leaving school at 16, he became a cadet journalist on the Courier, before serving in the Second World War as a captain in the Royal Marines in north Africa and Italy. After the war, he became Executive Editor of Lilliput Magazine, Assistant Editor of Picture Post and founding Editor of the Angling Times. Colin found his niche when Aubrey Buxton enlisted him to help with Anglia Television's first natural history programme, Wild Life in London (1961), leading to the subsequent establishment of Anglia Television's Survival (1961) Unit.

Colin became the Unit's Creative Head and remained in the post for over thirty years, writing and producing over 400 films. As Head of Anglia's Natural History Unit, his objective was to reach a wide audience by making wildlife conservation a popular issue using innovative styles, punchy language and carefully choosing the stories to present. With his talent and humour, Colin was the ideal choice as writer for what became a genre that was christened 'Pop-Nat-Hist'.

A prolific and gifted writer, Colin wrote 36 books and regularly contributed to a variety of magazines and papers. In 1986 he was awarded a Royal Television Society Fellowship for his outstanding contribution to the industry, and in 1987 the Royal Geographical Society awarded him the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award for excellence in the study of natural history through cinematography.

Colin Willock died on the 26th of March 2005.

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Filmography

Actor

2

Type

Year

The Way We Went Wild Documentary2004Self

Looking About TV Series1961Self

Editorial Department

1

This Week Poster

This Week TV Series1956

Writer

6

Type

Year

Snakes: Eden's Deadly Charmers Poster

Snakes: Eden's Deadly Charmers Documentary1988

King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands TV Movie1983

Almost a Dodo Search for the Weirdest Bird in the World Documentary1976

The Forbidden Desert of the Danakil TV Special1973

The World of Survival TV Series1971

Survival Poster

Survival TV Series1961

Producer

6

Type

Year

Snakes: Eden's Deadly Charmers Poster

Snakes: Eden's Deadly Charmers Documentary1988

Wildlife Chronicles Mini-Series1987

King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands TV Movie1983

Survival: Small Is Beautiful Poster

Survival: Small Is Beautiful TV Series1980

Tiger, Tiger Documentary1977

Survival Poster

Survival TV Series1961

Director

3

Type

Year

Tiger, Tiger Documentary1977

The Forbidden Desert of the Danakil TV Special1973

Survival Poster

Survival TV Series1961

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