Simon King (broadcaster)

Simon Henry King OBE (born 27 December 1962) is a British television presenter and cameraman, specialising in nature documentaries. King received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2011.

King has been working in the field of natural history film making for over 30 years. He has credited his media career to his parents, his father being in the television industry and his mother being involved in the music industry.

King was born in Nairobi, Kenya to parents John King and Eve King (née Shulman). His father worked with the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Nairobi. They moved to Bristol in the United Kingdom in 1964. when John got a job as a reporter for the BBC's Points West news programme. He later created and produced the antiques programme Going for a Song. When his parents separated when he was nine years old, he lived with his mother and elder sister, Debbie.

King attended Henbury School from 1974 to 1979.

He began his career as a child actor at the age of ten in such television films as The Fox (1973) and Secret Place (1974). In 1976 he accompanied naturalist Mike Kendall in the BBC series Man and Boy, in which they searched the country for Britain's wildlife. All of these were his father's projects.

In 1984, he made his first film for television – "The Willow", a study of the wildlife which surrounds a willow tree. This was broadcast as an edition of the BBC series The World About Us, as was his following film "The Hidden Land", a study of the wildlife which exists around the hotels in Spain's Costa del Sol. He has since gone on to produce more than 80 natural history films as principal cameraman, director, producer and many more as presenter.

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