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name: "Hugo van Lawick"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hugo-van-lawick"
fi1m_id: "hugo-van-lawick"
imdb_id: "nm0887361"
tmdb_id: 928583
wikidata_id: "Q1281022"
roles: ["Archival footage research"]
born: "10 April 1937"
died: "2 June 2002"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T00:09:03.187748+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."
---

# Hugo van Lawick

## Identity

Hugo van Lawick

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hugo-van-lawick
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hugo-van-lawick
- **IMDb ID:** nm0887361
- **TMDB ID:** 928583
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1281022
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_van_Lawick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1281022, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887361/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/928583

Archival footage research. Born 10 April 1937 in Surabaya, Indonesia. Died 2 June 2002.

## Details

- **Work:** Archival footage research
- **Born:** 10 April 1937, Surabaya, Indonesia
- **Died:** 2 June 2002
- **Also known as:** Hugo Arndt Rodolf Baron van Lawick, Hugo Van Lawick, Hugo Arndt Rodolf van Lawick, Baron Hugo Van Lawick
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_van_Lawick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1281022, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887361/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/928583

## Streaming the US now

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

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Hugo van Lawick (also credited as Baron Hugo Van Lawick) was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker, cinematographer and director. Born in Surabaya, Indonesia, he worked extensively for National Geographic, filming chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania during the 1960s and producing documentaries on Serengeti wildlife including wild dogs, elephants and lions.

He directed films such as *People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe* (1988), *The Leopard Son* (1996) and *Serengeti Symphony* (1998). Van Lawick was married to primatologist Jane Goodall from 1964 to 1974; they had one son. He appears in archive footage in the 2017 documentary *Jane*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Jane* (2017), as Archival Footage Research — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/jane.md)
- *My Life in the Serengeti* (2014), Director
- *Big Cats: Fast and Dangerous* (2012), Director
- *Serengeti: Circle of Life* (2011), Director
- *Cheetahs Against All Odds* (2009), Cinematography
- *The ABCs of the Serengeti* (2006), Director
- *Serengeti Stories* (2005), Director
- *Monkey Hunters* (2004), Additional Photography
- *Addo - The African King* (2002), Director, Director of Photography
- *Cheetah Story* (1999), Director
- *Serengeti Symphony* (1998), Director
- *Africa's Paradise of Thorns* (1997), Executive Producer
- *The Leopard Son* (1996), Director
- *People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe* (1988), Director, Writer
- *Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa* (1973), Narrator, Director
- *Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees* (1965), Director of Photography

## Gallery

- ![Hugo van Lawick](https://film.one/media/person/4170416/gallery-5c2e80555718.jpg) Hugo van Lawick — Alfonso Gutiérrez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Jes%C3%BAs_Moster%C3%ADn%2C_Hugo_van_Lawick_and_F%C3%A9lix_Rodr%C3%ADguez_de_la_Fuente_in_Africa_%281969%29.jpg/1280px-Jes%C3%BAs_Moster%C3%ADn%2C_Hugo_van_Lawick_and_F%C3%A9lix_Rodr%C3%ADguez_de_la_Fuente_in_Africa_%281969%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hugo van Lawick](https://film.one/media/person/4170416/gallery-6d30df8935d5.jpg) Hugo van Lawick — Image via TMDB

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