Bruce Parry
Bruce Parry was born in Hythe, England, United Kingdom on March 17th, 1969 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 55, Bruce Parry biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Military career
After graduating from Wells Cathedral School Parry, the Royal Marines joined the Royal Marines and successfully completed training at the Royal Marine Commando Training Centre in Devon. He was then selected by the Admiralty Interview Board and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant at the age of 18.
He served as a Troop Commander in the Comacchio Group and Commando Logistic Regiment and was deployed to Norway. Parry was sent to Iraq and served in an intelligence and humanitarian role in Iraqi Kurdistan for Operation Provide Comfort, which came shortly after the First Gulf War. He then worked as a Physical Education Instructor. He was the youngest officer to be appointed Head of Fitness and Education for the Royal Marine Commando Training Centre at 23 years old. After six years in service as a Lieutenant, Bruce Parry resigned as a Lieutenant.
Trekking career
Parry, who resigned from the Royal Marines, pursued physical education and sports science at Loughborough University, but then deferred. He then started serving as a trek leader on several scientific and conservation expeditions around Indonesia. He has also served as an expedition leader for Trekforce. He personally arranged and led more than 15 major expeditions to remote parts of the world.
He has worked in film and music production since then. He worked as a writer and then site manager for music videos, television commercials, and feature films. Parry founded Endeavour Productions, which later became Parry's own business.
Television career
Parry first appeared on television in 2002 in a "Cannibals and Crampons" episode of BBC1's Extreme Lives series "Cannibals and Crampons." With his companion Mark Anstice, he planned, shot, produced, and presented the documentary film. The film was a first-hand account of their epic climb to Puncak Mandala in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. It is Australasia's second highest peak, but it is little known and seldom scaled.
Parry was chosen in 2002 to lead the Children's BBC expedition Serious Jungle, taking four boys and four girls aged 11 to Borneo to work with orangutans. The show was nominated for Best Children's Factual by the Royal Television Society in 2003. In three episodes of Danger, Parry appeared as the straight-faced instructor.50,000 Volts!
Nick Frost is the opposite of him.He returned to BBC1's Extreme Lives program in the following year and produced "Yukon Quest," a 700 km canoe race down the Yukon River in Canada. He returned to the Children's BBC in the year 2000 to lead a trek for Serious Desert, bringing a group of children to Namibia's Skeleton Coast to work with the endangered black rhino. In 2004, the show received the BAFTA Award for Best Children's Factual.
Parry began filming Tribe, a prime time BBC2 documentary series in which he lived with various tribal groups precisely as they learn to fully understand their culture. In Gabon, India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Mongolia, and Venezuela, the first series of Tribes saw Parry living with indigenous peoples.
Next Parry was selected to lead an expedition across Greenland in the name of Captain Scott in a time-lapsed version of Scott's ill-fated last trip to the Pole in 2006.
Tribe's second series was shot entirely in Ethiopia as a journey between three ethnic groups. The third series was shot in Brazil, Polynesia, Siberia, Bhutan, Tanzania, and Malaysia.
Parry traveled through Peru and Brazil in 2008 for his series entitled Amazon, where he explored such topics as cocaine, oil, logging, slavery, dams, soya, cattle ranching, and epidemics. He spent time with government officials, indigenous peoples, illegal loggers, drug dealers, and cattle ranchers.
Parry immersed himself in the lives of people living in the Far North in 2010 and also published a book about his travels in 2011. Parry experienced firsthand the dangers to culture, landscape, and wildlife of the Arctic, from the Inuit of Greenland to Alaska whales and gold-diggers, Canadian oil-men, researchers, and bands of reindeer herders in Siberia's remote valleys.
Film career
Parry produced his debut feature documentary for the big screen, TAWAI – A voice from the forest, after finishing Arctic for the BBC. The film takes a closer look at some of the topics discussed in his television shows and the personal lessons he has learned from his journeys.