Profile
Chris Terrill
Film Maker + Producer + Writer
Male
Born
1952
Age
61
Chris Terrill is an anthropologist, adventurer, author and filmmaker born in Brighton in 1952. He attended Brighton College 1965-1970, and then went to Durham University where he gained a joint honours degree in Geography and Anthropology. Between 1976… Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1952
Birth
Born in 1952.
TWENTIES
1976
24 Years Old
Between 1976 and 1977 he lived with the remote Acholi Tribe of Southern Sudan where he carried out doctoral research on the impact of civil war on the tribal society before taking up the post of Head of Geography at Rendcomb College in Gloucestershire.
THIRTIES
1983
31 Years Old
In 1983, he left teaching to become a full-time professional anthropologist working for the International Disaster Institute and the UN in Geneva and throughout the famine gripped and war ravaged areas of Africa.
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FORTIES
1999
47 Years Old
In 1999 Terrill became engaged to the model and activist Heather Mills after only 12 days in Cambodia, where they were making a film about landmines.
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FIFTIES
2003
51 Years Old
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After 20 years at the BBC, and with over 100 prime time films to his name, he left the corporation in 2003 to set up his own company, Uppercut Films, and began to specialise in military and high adventure documentaries—though always concentrating on communities/groups and their internal dynamics.
2007
55 Years Old
In 2007, he documented and participated in the rigorous eight months training with the Royal Marine Commandos after which he followed the newly qualified recruits to the front line in Afghanistan for their first taste of real war.
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2009
57 Years Old
In 2009 Terrill made a series on the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, called Theatreland.
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2010
58 Years Old
In 2010 he spent six months on HMS Manchester in the Caribbean filming counter narcotics operations as well as humanitarian disaster relief during the hurricane season (Royal Navy: Caribbean Patrol for Channel Five and National Geographic).
In 2011 Terrill returned to working with the Royal Marines when he joined 42 Commando in the dangerous Nad e Ali (north) district of Helmand Province.
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