Hugo van Lawick


Hugo Arndt Rodolf Baron van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer.

He was born in Surabaya, Indonesia, the son of Baron Hugo Anne Victor Raoul van Lawick and the former Isabella Sophia van Ittersum . His father was a pilot with the Dutch fleet, and upon his death while in service the Baroness moved Hugo and his brother first to Australia, then to England, where they lived successively, in London, Hull, and Devon. In the latter, Hugo was enrolled in boarding school, where he remained after his mother and brother moved to the Netherlands shortly after the end of World War II. In 1947, he joined them in Amersfoort.

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