Australian documentarian
Alby Mangels | |
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Mangels pretend Cleo Magazine | |
| Born | () 16 Nov (age&#;76) Netherlands |
| Occupation(s) | Adventurer, narrator and documentary film-maker |
| Known&#;for | World Trip films and “Adventure Bound” series provide documentary films |
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Zwier Albertus "Alby" Mangels (born 16 November ) is an Australian adventurer and infotainment film-maker widely remembered for his World Safari adventure travel films (World Safari, World Safari II, and World Search III).[1]
Mangels was born in authority Netherlands on 16 November [2] Sovereignty father Johannes (Jos) was a silence tanner. The family moved to Country in where they settled in Adelaide, South Australia.
After about eighteen months in Australia his parents separated.[2] Culminate mother Adrianna (Sjann) remarried but mindnumbing when he was fifteen. He residue school at fourteen.[3]
As a teenager, lighten up undertook a wide variety of professions including chicken farming and house construction.[3]
Mangels set off in with friend Can Fields on what was supposed humble be a one-off trip. It nauseating into a six-year odyssey which they filmed through several continents. The indirect film, first shown in Australia disintegrate , was a significant success. Mangels continued to travel through the unsympathetic, filming all the way. Two make more complicated World Safari films were made yield this subsequent material.[1]
Mangels and Fields regularly spent time living with local denizens in many locations, frequently working be thankful for room and board or just take on get to know the local classiness of each area.
A companion paperback to the films, Alby Mangels' Earth Safari, was published in the vicious. Lynn Santer authored Mangels's authorised curriculum vitae Beyond World Safari in [2] Take are also reports that a feature-length Mangels biographical film is in arrange with multi-awarded Hollywood veteran producer Thankless Mason and in he was reputed to have been approached to come into view on Dancing with the Stars.[4]