David Malone | |
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Born | North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England |
Nationality | British |
Other names | Golem XIV (online pseudonym) |
Alma mater | Swarthmore College |
Occupation | Independent filmmaker, author and politician |
Television | Horizon |
Political party | Green Party |
Parent(s) | Adrian Malone |
David Hugh Malone (born March 1962) is a British independent filmmaker, Green Party politician, and author of The Debt Generation. He has directed television documentaries on philosophy, science and religion, originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC and Channel 4.
Malone lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and was the Green Party's parliamentary candidate for Scarborough and Whitby in the 2015 general election.
David Malone was born in North Shields and grew up in 1970s London. His father, Adrian Malone, was also a documentary filmmaker, who produced The Ascent of Man with Jacob Bronowski and directed Cosmos: A Personal Voyage with Carl Sagan. Malone spent nine years in America and studied biological anthropology at Swarthmore College before joining the BBC Science Department and working there for nine years. He ended up joining the production team for Horizon, a regular documentary series on science and philosophy.