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name: "Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hugo-eric-louis-van-lawick"
fi1m_id: "hugo-eric-louis-van-lawick"
imdb_id: "nm3999141"
tmdb_id: 928581
roles: []
born: "4 March 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T00:09:04.090621+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick

## Identity

Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hugo-eric-louis-van-lawick
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hugo-eric-louis-van-lawick
- **IMDb ID:** nm3999141
- **TMDB ID:** 928581
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3999141/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/928581

Actor. Born 4 March 1967 in Nairobi, Kenya.

## Details

- **Born:** 4 March 1967, Nairobi, Kenya
- **Also known as:** Grub van Lawick, Hugo Eric Louis 'Grub' van Lawick, هوگو اریک لوئیس ون لاویک
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3999141/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/928581

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Jane*](https://film.one/film/jane.md) (78)

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## Biography

Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick, known as Grub, was born on 4 March 1967 in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the only child of primatologist Jane Goodall and wildlife filmmaker and photographer Baron Hugo van Lawick.

Van Lawick has appeared in documentaries about his mother, including as himself in *Jane's Journey* (2010) and as self (archive footage) in *Jane* (2017). He was also featured as a child in his father's 1973 ABC special *The Wild Dogs of Africa*.

*Sources: imdb.com, earnthenecklace.com, people.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Jane* (2017), Fi1m 78, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/jane.md)

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