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Richard Dawkins
Actor, Writer, ProducerBorn March 26, 1941 (84 years)
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. He has been referred to in the media as "Darwin's Rottweiler," a reference to English biologist T. H. Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—a fixed false belief. As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages, making it his most popular book to date.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. He has been referred to in the media as "Darwin's Rottweiler," a reference to English biologist T. H. Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—a fixed false belief. As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages, making it his most popular book to date.
Richard Dawkins Filmography
| 2020 | Intersect · as Q42 / Computer |
| 2011 | The Future Is Now! · as The Scientist |
| 2011 | Godless: Reason and Unity Over Superstition and Division (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2010 | Genius of Britain (TV Series) · as Presenter |
| 2009 | Inside Nature's Giants (TV Series) · as Presenter |
| 2009 | The Nature of Existence · as Cast |
| 2008 | The Genius of Charles Darwin (TV Series) · as Presenter |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report (TV Series) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Richard Dawkins (voice) |
| 1986 | Equinox (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2023 | Great Kills (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Science Friction · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2019 | The Search: Manufacturing Belief · as Self |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | The Fool · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | Ex Libris · as Self |
| 2017 | Losing Our Religion · as Self |
| 2017 | Supersapiens: The Rise of the Mind · as Self |
| 2016 | Nightwish: Live Ratina Stadion, Tampere · as Self - Special Appearance |
| 2016 | The Atheist Delusion · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | Beware the Slenderman · as Self |
| 2016 | Scientism Exposed · as Self |
| 2015 | The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Breath of Life · as Self |
| 2014 | The Hitch · as Self |
| 2014 | Patterns of Evidence: Exodus · as Self (uncredited Archive Footage) |
| 2014 | Creation and the Last Days · as Self |
| 2013 | The Unbelievers · as Self |
| 2013 | Portrait Artist of the Year (TV Series) · as Self - Sitter |
| 2013 | Speciesism: The Movie · as Self |
| 2012 | Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (TV Series) · as Self - Presenter |
| 2012 | Saturn's Embrace · as Self |
| 2011 | Brave New World with Stephen Hawking (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | The Reality of Me (TROM) · as Self |
| 2011 | The Nature of Existence Companion Series · as Self |
| 2010 | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | |
| 2010 | Faith School Menace? · as Self |
| 2010 | Veritasium (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | In Confidence (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | |
| 2010 | Sex, Drugs & Religion · as Self |
| 2009 | Skavlan (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Christianity - A History (TV Series) · as Self - Author 'the God Delusion' |
| 2008 | The Genius of Charles Darwin · as Self - Host |
| 2008 | Q+A (TV Series) · as Self - Panellist |
| 2008 | Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed · as Self |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | The God Delusion Debate · as Self |
| 2007 | The Big Questions (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | The Enemies of Reason · as Self |
| 2006 | TED Talks (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | The Trouble with Atheism · as Self |
| 2006 | Root of All Evil? · as Self |
| 2005 | The God Who Wasn't There · as Self |
| 2005 | Doctor Who (2005) (TV Series) · as Richard Dawkins |
| 2005 | The Late Edition (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Atheism Tapes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief (TV Series) · as Self - Biologist |
| 2004 | Miracle Planet (TV Series) · as Self - Oxford University |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | NOW (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Richard & Judy (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1998 | Die Johannes B. Kerner Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | HARDtalk (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | Kreuz & Quer (TV Series) · as Self - Evolutionsbiologe |
| 1996 | No Spin News (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1984 | Dateline (AU) (TV Series) · as Self - Evolutionary Biologist |
| 1982 | Channel 4 News (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | Newsnight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1964 | Horizon (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Late Late Show (IE) (TV Series) · as Self |