---
name: "Neil Nightingale"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/neil-nightingale"
fi1m_id: "neil-nightingale"
imdb_id: "nm0631473"
tmdb_id: 561061
wikidata_id: "Q13522504"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "6 February 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-05T13:10:50.604294+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."
---

# Neil Nightingale

## Identity

Neil Nightingale

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/neil-nightingale
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** neil-nightingale
- **IMDb ID:** nm0631473
- **TMDB ID:** 561061
- **Wikidata ID:** Q13522504
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Nightingale, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13522504, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0631473/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/561061

Producer and director. Born 6 February 1960.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 6 February 1960
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Nightingale, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13522504, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0631473/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/561061

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Walking with Dinosaurs*](https://film.one/film/walking-with-dinosaurs.md) (42)

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

## Biography

Neil Nightingale (born 6 February 1960) is a British wildlife filmmaker, producer and director. He graduated from Wadham College, Oxford with a first-class degree in zoology and joined the BBC in 1983 as a researcher and assistant producer.

From 2009 to 2018 he was creative director of BBC Earth. He co-directed the feature film *Walking with Dinosaurs* (2013) and served as executive producer on *The Meerkats* (2008). Other credits include producing episodes of *The Private Life of Plants* (1995) and executive producing *Earth: One Amazing Day* (2017). Since 2018 he has worked as a freelance executive producer and creative consultant.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Walking with Dinosaurs* (2013), Fi1m 42, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/walking-with-dinosaurs.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Oceans: Our Blue Planet* (2018), Producer
- *Planet Dinosaur: New Giants* (2018), Director
- *Wild Africa / Tiny Giants* (2016), Director
- *Wild Africa* (2015), Director
- *Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D* (2014), Director
- *Tiny Giants 3D* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Enchanted Kingdom* (2014), Producer, Scenario Writer, Director
- *Walking with Dinosaurs* (2013), Producer, Director — Fi1m 42, [page](https://film.one/film/walking-with-dinosaurs.md)
- *The Meerkats* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Wild Down Under* (2003), series, Director, Producer
- *Wildlife Specials* (1995), series, Producer
- *The Private Life of Plants* (1995), series, Producer
- *Natural World* (1983), series, Director

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