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DAVID ATTENBOROUGH David Frederick Attenborough as born in London on May 8 in 1926. He is a British naturalist and a television broadcaster who created his own and the leading wildlife programs. His father Frederick Levi Attenborough was the principal of a major University called the University College, Leicester. His mother was Mary (Clegg) Attenborough. David Attenborough's older brother Richard Attenborough, became a famous well known actor and filmmaker and his younger brother John, became a business man for the Alfa Romeo car company.

David grew up in indeed the university of Leceister, which was his playground. He spent his whole childhood collecting fossils, rocks, plants and so on and this ignited a spark of interest into the natural world around him.

Attenborough attended Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leceister, and then went to Clare College in Cambridge, where he started to study zoology and geology, earning a masters degree in Natural Sciences in 1947. After he earned the rank of the lieuenant in the Royal navy from 1947 to 1949 where he worked as a publishing editorial assistant for three years. He then joined the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a television producer trainee in 1952.

In England, all men that had finished school in the year of 1947-1960 were required to spend two years in the National Service training to become a member of the army. David went into the service in 1947 and spent two years there training.

David ended up marrying his only wife Jane Oriel in 1950 and they remained married until her death in 1997. They had two children, Robert and Susan.

David worked a variety of jobs while trying to get into the BBC, where he was hired full time in 1952. Originally though, he served as a producer for non-fiction broadcasts. In 1954 he got asked to fill in for a sick presenter on a television show called Zoo Quest. This was his first time before the cameras.

In the early 1960s, David left the BBC to work towards a postgraduate degree in the topic social anthropology and then returned in 1965 as Controller for a channel that had just been launched the year before. It became a success. At the same time as that, he continued to produce and narrate his own nature programs.

In 1969 for three years, David Attenborough was the controller of both of the BBC channels, but he found the administration work not really up his ally and resigned to go back to producing and narrating natural history documentaries, which he did very regularly.

Life on Earth was the documentary that "made" Attenborough's name worldwide for the first time in 1979. It was produced by the BBC and Tuner Network Television.

David Attenborough still continues to produce and narrate documentaries to this day. Little did he know that he was going to become a world famous television host to his own television show and help save the earth just that little bit.

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