Hugo Van Lawick

Info

Role

Director | Writer

Date of birth

04/10/1937

Date of death

06/02/2002

Place of birth

Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]

Hugo Van Lawick

Biography

Hugo Van Lawick was born on April 10, 1937 in Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe (1988), The World About Us (1967) and Jane (2017). He was married to Jane Goodall. He died on June 2, 2002 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.