"Welcome to Jurassic Park."
The man who said that line was David Attenborough's older brother.
Richard Attenborough played John Hammond. He also won Best Director Oscar for Gandhi in 1982. The two Attenborough brothers spent 70 years putting animals on screen, ancient and present.
David joined the BBC in 1952. By 1965 he was Controller of BBC Two, a channel that defined British television for the next 50 years. He commissioned Match of the Day, The Forsyte Saga, Civilisation, and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
In 1967 he brought color television to Britain, beating the West Germans by 3 weeks. He realized white tennis balls were impossible to follow on color sets and lobbied the International Tennis Federation to switch. The fluorescent yellow ball used at every Wimbledon since traces back to that one phone call.
He quit running television in 1973 to film animals instead of approving budgets. Life on Earth aired in 1979. The mountain gorilla scene on the Rwanda-Zaire border was voted one of the greatest moments in British TV history. He won BAFTAs for programming in black-and-white, color, HD, 3D, and 4K. The only person alive who has.
100 years today. 74 of them on television.