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Root, Alan

LC control no.n 83039898
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Personal name headingRoot, Alan
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LocatedKenya
Birth date1937-05-12
Death date2017-08-26
Place of birthLondon (England)
Place of deathKenya
Field of activityDocumentary films--Production and direction Nature films
Profession or occupationMotion picture producers and directors
Found inBaobab--portrait of a tree. [MP] 1972.
Wikipedia, Aug. 9, 2013 (Alan Root; b. May 12, 1937 in London; filmmaker who worked on nature documentaries)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 31, 2017 (Alan Root, a wildlife filmmaker who produced nearly two dozen acclaimed nature documentaries, died Aug. 26 [2017]; he was 80; had just returned from a safari in Alaska when he was hospitalized near his home in central Kenya; spent nearly all his life in Kenya; born in London on May 12, 1937; his father moved the family to Kenya when Mr. Root was 9)