Stan Brock (philanthropist)

Stan Brock is an English philanthropist who founded the charity Remote Area Medical in 1985.

Stanley Edmunde Brock was born in 1936 in Preston, Lancashire, England. He has been known variously as a TV presenter, film actor, author and naturalist.

He was educated at Canford School, Wimborne, Dorset. His father, a civil servant and telephone engineer, was posted to the British Colony of Guyana.

In 1952 Stan started work as a cowboy on the Dadanawa Ranch in British Guiana, now Guyana. There his interest in wildlife developed together with an awareness of the lack of medical care available to the remote native community.

Stan went on to work as a co-host on the popular TV wildlife series Wild Kingdom and subsequently to direct the TV series Stan Brock's Expedition Danger (1966–1973).

He is the author of three books on his experiences in Guyana: Leemo, A True Story of a man's friendship with a mountain Lion (London, 1967), More about Leemo (London, 1967) and Jungle Cowboy (USA, 1969), republished in 1999 as All the Cowboys were Indians. He has written various articles for magazines, including Readers Digest and Outdoor Life.

Stan has starred in two films: Escape from Angola (1976) and Galyon the Indestructible Man (1977). Both are classified as "Action Movies" and were productions of legendary Hollywood producer Ivan Tors who created and produced Flipper, Sea Hunt, Gentle Ben, Daktari, Cowboy in Africa, and more.

Stan Brock is the founder of the non-profit medical care organization, Remote Area Medical. RAM operations are dependent on the work of thousands of volunteer medical professionals and the small donations of many supporters; it receives no state financial support. Up to December 2009 there have been over 400,000 patient encounters. Medical care is provided entirely free of charge to patients on a 'first come, first served' basis.

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