David Cobham
David Cobham (11 May 1930 – 25 March 2018) was a British film and TV producer & director, best known for the film 'Tarka the Otter'.
Cobham directed the BBC's first wildlife film Vanishing Hedgerows in 1972. He also directed and produced the children's TV series Bernard's Watch, Brendon Chase, Out of Sight and Woof!. His wildlife films include The Goshawk, To Build a Fire, narrated by Orson Welles, and Seal Morning. Also a BBC series about Japan, In the Shadow of Fujisan. Other projects have included One Pair of Eyes about the sculptor John Skeaping, Survival in Limbo starring Duncan Carse, and he was also the director/producer for BP's film of Donald Campbell's Land Speed Record attempt at Utah in 1960.
Cobham's first novel, A Sparrowhawk's Lament: How British Breeding Birds of Prey Are Faring, was published in 2014 and his next novel, Bowland Beth: The Life of an English Hen Harrier, was published in 2016.
David's fundraising page: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/davidcobham
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