Bruce Parry was born on 17 March 1969 and is an English documentarian, indigenous rights advocate, author, explorer, trek leader and former Royal Marines commando officer.
26 Facts About Bruce Parry
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Bruce Parry employs an ethnographic style and a form of participant observation for his documentaries.
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Bruce Parry attended the Wells Cathedral School as a boarder between 1978 and 1987 and was Head of House, a Combined Cadet Force cadet.
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Bruce Parry was then selected by the Admiralty Interview Board and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant at the age of 18.
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Bruce Parry served as a Troop Commander in Comacchio Group and Commando Logistic Regiment and was deployed to Norway.
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Bruce Parry was deployed to Iraq and he served in a security and humanitarian capacity in Iraqi Kurdistan for Operation Provide Comfort during and after the First Gulf War.
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Bruce Parry left the service as a Lieutenant after six years.
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Bruce Parry then began working as a trek leader for various scientific and conservation expeditions throughout Indonesia.
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Bruce Parry personally organized and led more than 15 major expeditions to extreme parts of the world.
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Bruce Parry then worked in the British film and music industry.
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Bruce Parry worked as a runner and then location manager for music videos, television commercials and feature films.
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Bruce Parry first appeared on television in 2002 in an episode of BBC1's Extreme Lives series entitled "Cannibals and Crampons".
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Bruce Parry planned, filmed, directed and presented the documentary episode with his friend Mark Anstice.
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Bruce Parry was chosen in 2002 to lead the Children's BBC expedition show Serious Jungle, taking four boys and four girls aged 11 to 15 to Borneo to work with orangutans.
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In 2004, Bruce Parry started filming the prime time BBC2 documentary series Tribe in which he lived with various tribal groups exactly as they do to better understand their culture.
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The first series of Tribe saw Bruce Parry living with indigenous peoples in Gabon, India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Mongolia and Venezuela.
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In 2008, Bruce Parry journeyed for seven and a half months through Peru and Brazil for his series entitled Amazon where he looked at such issues as cocaine, oil, logging, slavery, dams, soya, cattle ranching and epidemics.
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Bruce Parry spent time with government officials, indigenous peoples, illegal loggers, drug manufacturers and cattle ranchers.
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In 2010, over the course of one bright Arctic summer, Bruce Parry immersed himself in the lives of people living in the Far North and in 2011 released a book about his travels.
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Bruce Parry is a supporter of the indigenous rights organisation Survival International.
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Bruce Parry put together a double album of twenty exclusive new songs from KT Tunstall, Johnny Borrell, A-ha, the Black Eyed Peas, Hot Chip and more.
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Bruce Parry believes that if people understood the negative impact that our culture of greed and consumerism has on the 'wonderful people' at the other end, they would act differently.
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Bruce Parry was brought up as a Christian but his experiences among the tribes initially led him to towards a sceptical form of pandeism :.
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In 2007, Bruce Parry received Royal Television Society Award for Best Presenter for Tribe.
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Bruce Parry won the BAFTA award for Factual Series in 2009.
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Bruce Parry's documentaries have won a number of awards from various film festivals around the world.