About

Known credits:
35
Birthday:
1946-05-25
Place of birth:
South Africa
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David Fanning

Overview

David Fanning has been executive producer of Frontline , America’s only regularly scheduled investigative documentary series on television, since its first season in 1983. The series has won all the major awards for broadcast journalism, including 34 Emmys, 23 duPont-Columbia University Awards, 12 Peabody Awards, and 11 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. In 2002, the series was honored with an unprecedented third Gold Baton from duPont-Columbia for its post September 11th coverage, a series of seven hour-long documentaries on the origins and impact of terrorism. In 2003, “A Dangerous Business,” a Frontline / New York Times joint investigation of the cast-iron pipe making industry, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service.

Fanning began his filmmaking career as a young journalist in South Africa. He came to the US in 1973 and began producing and directing local and national documentaries for KOCE, a public television station in California. In 1977, Fanning came to WGBH Boston to start the international documentary series WORLD.

Known for

Writing
2018 Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia Writing Writer 59
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2017 The Fish on My Plate Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2024 Documenting Police Use of Force Production Executive Producer N/A
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2023 Inside the Uvalde Response Production Executive Producer N/A
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2023 America's Dangerous Trucks Production Executive Producer N/A
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2023 After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics Production Executive Producer N/A
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2022 Plot to Overturn the Election Production Executive Producer N/A
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2021 Taliban Takeover Production Executive Producer N/A
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2021 America After 9/11 Production Executive Producer N/A
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2021 The Healthcare Divide Production Executive Producer N/A
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2021 President Biden Production Executive Producer 59
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2020 Frontline: America's Great Divide Production Executive Producer 59
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2019 Frontline: In the Age of AI Production Producer 59
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2019 Predator on the Reservation Production Executive Producer N/A
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2018 Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia Production Executive Producer 59
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2017 Mosul Production Executive Producer N/A
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2017 Out of Gitmo Production Executive Producer N/A
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2016 Terror in Europe Production Executive Producer N/A
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2014 The Rise of ISIS Production Executive Producer 58
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2014 To Catch A Trader Production Producer N/A
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2013 Snitch Production Executive Producer 60
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2012 Dollars and Dentists Production Executive Producer 59
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2011 Lost in Detention Production Executive Producer N/A
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2010 The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan Production Executive Producer 58
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2009 The Released Production Executive Producer N/A
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2006 Frontline: The Age of AIDS Production Executive Producer N/A
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2005 The New Asylums Production Executive Producer N/A
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2003 Burden of Innocence Production Executive Producer N/A
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2000 The Killer at Thurston High Production Executive Producer N/A
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1982 Frank Terpil: Confessions of a Dangerous Man Production Producer N/A
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Outlawed in Pakistan Production Executive Producer N/A
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Beyond Baghdad Production Executive Producer N/A
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Nuclear Aftershocks Production Executive Producer N/A
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Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia Production Producer N/A
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