Malcolm Douglas

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Malcolm Douglas (born March 14, 1941 in Melbourne , † September 23, 2010 in Broome ) was an Australian wildlife filmmaker , adventurer and crocodile expert . He made numerous documentaries about the nature of Australia and survival in the outback . He ran a crocodile farm and a wildlife park near Broome and was committed to animal welfare .

Life

In 1964, the 23-year-old Malcolm Douglas and his friend David Oldmeadow gave up their jobs as warehouse and farm workers in the region Riverina in New South Wales and made a six-month trip across Australia. The planned six months became four years. During their trip, they filmed the flora and fauna in Australia. The film material later became the documentary Across the Top , which was broadcast on Australian television in 1976 and achieved record ratings for documentaries. Douglas later made more than 50 other documentaries and films for the television stations Channel Seven and Channel Nine.

The six-part series In The Bush with Malcolm Douglas , which Douglas shot in 2008, was broadcast on Channel Seven every Saturday night in 2009. In Germany the series was shown on kabel eins and later on VOX under the title Unterwegs with Malcolm Douglas .

Since 1983 Douglas operated a crocodile farm, 16 kilometers northeast of Broome. There he kept several thousand crocodiles and marketed their meat and skins. In 2007 he opened a wildlife park adjacent to it, in which cassowaries , emus , giant storks and other birds, kangaroos (including mountain kangaroos and wallabies ) as well as snakes and lizards can now be seen.

In 2004 Douglas was diagnosed with prostate cancer , the doctors gave him 18 months. He could defeat the disease, however. He died on September 23, 2010 in a car accident in his wildlife park. He was found wedged between his car and a tree. Douglas left his wife Valerie and two grown children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Legacy of TV's original crocodile hunter Malcolm Douglas The Australian , September 24, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Malcolm Douglas: Tragic death in car accident in Crocodile Park in-australien.com
  3. ↑ Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park and Animal Refuge malcolmdouglas.com.au
personal data
SURNAME Douglas, Malcolm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian wildlife filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 2010
Place of death Broome