Richard Dawkins
Acting • Born 1941-03-26
Biography
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. He has been referred to in the media as "Darwin's Rottweiler," a reference to English biologist T. H. Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—a fixed false belief. As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages, making it his most popular book to date.
Filmography
56 credits
The Enemies of Reason
Movie • 2007
Self
Atheist Alliance International Convention 2007
Movie • 2008
Self
The God Who Wasn't There
Movie • 2005
Self
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Movie • 2008
Self
Sex, Drugs & Religion
Movie • 2010
Self
Root of All Evil?
Movie • 2006
Self
Dawkins vs Lennox: Has Science Buried God?
Movie • 2009
Self
The Blind Watchmaker
Movie • 1987
Self
The Genius of Charles Darwin
Movie • 2008
Self - Host
A Universe from Nothing
Movie • 2009
Self
Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen
Movie • 2008
Self
Science Friction
Movie • 2022
Self
The Unbelievers
Movie • 2013
Self
The Trouble with Atheism
Movie • 2006
Self
The Reality of Me
Movie • 2012
Self
Speciesism: The Movie
Movie • 2013
Self
The God Delusion Debate
Movie • 2007
Self
Something From Nothing: A Conversation with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss
Movie • 2012
Self
Breath of Life
Movie • 2015
Self
A War on Science
Movie • 2006
Self
The Fool
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
The Atheist Delusion
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
The Future Is Now!
Movie • 2011
The Scientist
Beware the Slenderman
Movie • 2016
Self
Nightwish: Vehicle Of Spirit
Movie • 2016
Self - Special Appearance
Robin Ince: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
Movie • 2010
Self
Losing Our Religion
Movie • 2017
Self
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Movie • 2017
Self
Supersapiens: the Rise of the Mind
Movie • 2017
Self
Intersect
Movie • 2020
Q42 / Computer
The Mind's Big Bang
Movie • 2001
Self
Faith School Menace?
Movie • 2010
Self
Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus
Movie • 2015
Self (uncredited archive footage)
Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Movie
Apresentador
Nightwish: Live Ratina Stadion, Tampere
Movie • 2016
Self - Special Appearance
Reich: Three Tales
Movie • 2002
Self
The Big Questions
TV • 2007
Self
Richard & Judy
TV • 2001
Self
La entrevista de
TV • 2019
Self
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
The Root of All Evil?
TV • 2006
The Genius of Charles Darwin
TV • 2008
Presenter
Break the Science Barrier
TV • 1996
Presenter
Inside Nature's Giants
TV • 2009
Presenter
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Richard Dawkins
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief
TV • 2004
Self - Biologist
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
TV • 2011
Self
Great Minds
TV • 2021
Self
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
TV • 2015
Self
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Richard Dawkins (voice)
Brave New World with Stephen Hawking
TV • 2011
Self
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
TV • 2011
Self
Genius of Britain
TV • 2010
Presenter
Q&A
TV • 2008
Self - Panellist
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV • 2003
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self