David Fanning

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Male

Birthday 1946-05-25 (78 years old)

Place of Birth South Africa

David Fanning

Biography

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

Producer

Beyond Baghdad

as Executive Producer

Nuclear Aftershocks

as Executive Producer

Outlawed in Pakistan

as Executive Producer

2024
Documenting Police Use of Force

as Executive Producer

2023
Inside the Uvalde Response

as Executive Producer

2023
America's Dangerous Trucks

as Executive Producer

2022
Plot to Overturn the Election

as Executive Producer

2021
America After 9/11

as Executive Producer

2021
Taliban Takeover

as Executive Producer

2021
The Healthcare Divide

as Executive Producer

2021
President Biden

as Executive Producer

2020
Frontline: America's Great Divide

as Executive Producer

2019
Predator on the Reservation

as Executive Producer

2018
2017
Out of Gitmo

as Executive Producer

2017
Mosul

as Executive Producer

2016
Terror in Europe

as Executive Producer

2014
The Rise of ISIS

as Executive Producer

2014
To Catch A Trader

as Producer

2013
Snitch

as Executive Producer

2012
Dollars and Dentists

as Executive Producer

2011
Lost in Detention

as Executive Producer

2010
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

as Executive Producer

2009
The Released

as Executive Producer

2006
Frontline: The Age of AIDS

as Executive Producer

2005
The New Asylums

as Executive Producer

2003
Burden of Innocence

as Executive Producer

2000
The Killer at Thurston High

as Executive Producer

Crew

1983
Frontline

as Creator

Creator

1983
Frontline

as Creator