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Clive Oppenheimer
Director, Additional CreditsBorn May 28, 1964 (61 years)
Clive Oppenheimer is a professor of volcanology at the University of Cambridge, with wide interests spanning volcanic processes, hazards and impacts, geoarchaeology, and cultural heritage. He has participated in over 30 film and TV productions in assorted roles, including as narrator, presenter, cinematographer, and director. He made 13 research trips to Antarctica. He received the Leif Erikson Award for a lifetime achievement in exploration in 2018, and the Royal Geographical Society’s Murchison Award for publications enhancing the understanding of volcanic processes and impacts in 2005. He is the author of 'Eruptions That Shook the World', which inspired 'Into the Inferno' (2016), his prior film with Werner Herzog.
Filmography
| 2020 | Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds · as Self |
| 2019 | Living with Volcanoes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2016 | Into the Inferno · as Self - Volcanologist |
| 2015 | Countdown to A Catastrophe (TV Series) · as Self - Volcanologist, University Of Cambridge |
| 2013 | Explorers: Adventures of the Century (TV Series) · as Self - Vulcanologist & Expedition Leader |
| 2009 | How the Earth Was Made (TV Series) · as Self - Volcanologist, University Of Cambridge |
| 2007 | Encounters at the End of the World · as Self - Volcanologist |
| 1993 | Quarks (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1974 | NOVA (TV Series) · as Self - University Of Cambridge |