Ray Mears

Ray Mears

Born: February 7, 1964
in Coulsdon and Purley, Surrey, England
Over the past two decades the name Ray Mears has become recognised throughout the world as an authority on the subject of Bushcraft and Survival. He has also become a household name through his various television series, including Tracks, World of Survival, Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor, The Real Heroes of Telemark and many more.

These programmes have reached out and touched the hearts of everyone, from small children to grandparents. They are enjoyed by many because of Ray's down to earth approach, his obvious love for his subject and the empathy and respect he shows for indigenous peoples and their cultures.

It is obvious to some, and a surprise to others to discover that Ray has spent his life learning these skills and is truly a master of the subject he calls Wilderness Bushcraft.

Movies for Ray Mears...

Title: Wild China With Ray Mears
Character: Self
Released: July 13, 2021
Type: TV
Ray Mears is on a journey of discovery among the landscapes and wildlife of China.Starting in the capital Beijing, and taking in wonders of the world like the Great Wall of China, Ray walks with elephants in the country's tropical rainforest, joins rangers rewilding the nation's giant pandas, searches for the elusive snow leopard, explores one of its most famous landscapes in Karst country, comes face to face with a brown bear, and treks in the foothills of the Himalayas alongside herbal medicine experts, uncovering secrets of its plants.
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Title: Australian Wilderness with Ray Mears
Character: Presenter
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: TV
Renowned bushcraft expert Ray Mears returns to one of the harshest environments, the Australian outback, and travels through it in order to explore how wildlife and people adapt, thrive and survive. Ray swims in turquoise waters with whale sharks in out on the Ningaloo reef, and discovers fossils of their giant prehistoric ancestors in Ningaloo's limestone cliffs which rose out of the seabed 20 million years ago. Ray also traverses through large mangroves and the waterways of Kakadu, where he encounters salt water crocodiles, and stays with an aboriginal family who share with him the history of farming with fire and finding ingredients to make a meal out of the bush, as well as climbing into mountain ranges and exploring deep into the ancient Walpole forest, on the trail for the quokka, one of Australia's most timid marsupials.
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Title: All Round to Mrs. Brown's
Character: Ray Mears
Released: March 25, 2017
Type: TV
Mrs Brown opens the doors to her house for a Saturday night entertainment show in which she and the family are joined by celebrity guests.
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Title: Wild France with Ray Mears
Character: Presenter
Released: July 11, 2016
Type: TV
Ray Mears discovers the dramatic landscapes of France. Exploring the wildlife and plant life and delving into the secrets the landscape hold on his journey through mountains, coast, forests, rivers and wetlands.
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Title: How the Wild West was Won with Ray Mears
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: May 8, 2016
Type: TV
Bushcraft expert and survivalist Ray Mears explores the awe-inspiring landscape of that shaped the story of the Wild West. ... Discover how extraordinary topography, extreme weather and ecology presented both great opportunity and even greater challenges for Native Americans and early pioneers of the Wild West.
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Title: Wild Australia with Ray Mears
Character: Presenter
Released: April 25, 2016
Type: TV
Bushcraft guru Ray Mears travels to the remotest parts of Australia to examine the astonishing creatures that thrive in such demanding conditions.
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Title: Wild River with Ray Mears
Character: Presenter
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: TV
Renowned bushcraft expert Ray Mears leads a once in a lifetime excursion down the magical River Wye. Regarded as one of the most stunning waterways in the world, the Wye runs for 150 miles between Wales and England, flowing through spectacular mountain gorges and forests teeming with wildlife.
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Title: Wilderness Walks with Ray Mears
Character: Himself - Presenter
Released: September 10, 2014
Type: TV
Survival expert Ray Mears explores some of Britain’s most outstanding areas of natural beauty to discover the fascinating wildlife that has made these places their home.
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Title: Ray Mears: Close Encounters
Released: July 17, 2013
Type: TV
Ray Mears: Close Encounters follows survival expert and presenter Ray Mearsas he takes a close look at two of Australia’s most iconic animals, the Salt Water Crocodile and Tasmanian Devil.
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Title: Wild Britain with Ray Mears
Character: Ray Mears
Released: October 11, 2010
Type: TV
Ray Mears explores wildlife around Great Britain.
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Title: Survival with Ray Mears
Character: Presenter
Released: April 18, 2010
Type: TV
Survival with Ray Mears is a 3 part television series hosted by Ray Mears, as he tracks predators in their natural habitats. The series was broadcast by ITV, and was billed as the return of the Survival brand. It was followed by Wild Britain with Ray Mears. Survival consists of three, hour-long, programmes, focusing on Mears' tracking of the world's top predators. He follows the leopard in Namibia, the bear in British Columbia, and the wolf in Central Idaho. An underpinning theme is the threats faced by each species: in Idaho the crew arrives with only days to countdown before the wolf’s status as a protected species is lifted, and local farmers indicate their intention to begin hunting them; in British Columbia the impact of global warming on the salmon population is felt by the bear; and in Namibia the uneasy co-existence between leopards and local farmers is highlighted.
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Title: Ray Mears' Northern Wilderness
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: October 25, 2009
Type: TV
Survival expert Ray Mears takes an epic adventure into Canada’s unforgiving yet stunning wilderness, covering over 1,000 miles
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Title: Ray Mears Goes Walkabout
Character: Presenter
Released: May 25, 2008
Type: TV
Ray Mears Goes Walkabout is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears, showing Mears in Australia. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it is also shown on Discovery Channel in Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States. A book of the same title was released concurrently with the series. In the series Mears met one of his heroes: Les Hiddins.
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Title: Would I Lie to You?
Character: Self
Released: June 16, 2007
Type: TV
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Himself
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Title: Ray Mears' Wild Food
Released: January 4, 2007
Type: TV
Ray Mears journeys back in time to find out what our Stone Age ancestors would have eaten. Ray and archaeo-botanist Professor Gordon Hillman show us how our ancestors found, prepared and cooked their food and we learn about the amazingly rich natural larder that still surrounds us.
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Title: Ray Mears' Bushcraft
Released: May 18, 2004
Type: TV
Bushcraft is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it also shown on Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Czech Republic, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Romania and Russia. Following on from Extreme Survival, Bushcraft was first shown in 2004, and ended in 2005.
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Title: Ray Mears's Real Heroes of Telemark
Character: Presenter
Released: September 21, 2003
Type: TV
A three-part insight into an amazing wartime mission in Norway, undertaken in the early 1940s, which was immortalised by the Hollywood movie The Heroes of Telemark.
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The Real Heroes of Telemark
Title: The Real Heroes of Telemark
Character: Presenter
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Sixty years ago, four men parachuted onto a Norwegian glacier, carrying only the most basic equipment. Their mission was to prevent the Nazi regime from building an atomic bomb. Now wilderness expert Ray Mears tells the true story of this gruelling campaign, showing how these men's ability to survive in extreme conditions influenced the outcome of the Second World War.
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Title: Ray Mears' Country Tracks
Character: Presenter
Released: September 10, 2002
Type: TV
This show is series of re-edited short episodes from the Tracks (1994) and Country Tracks (1998) series. It introduces various outdoor skills, bushcraft and countryside cunning with survival expert Ray Mears.
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Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
Title: Trips Money Can't Buy with Ewan McGregor
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Survival expert Ray Mears takes Ewan McGregor the chance to go on a trek of a lifetime. They go deep into the Honduran jungle in search of a lost civilisation.
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Title: Ray Mears' Extreme Survival
Character: Himself
Released: June 6, 1999
Type: TV
Ray Mears has spent his life developing a brand of survival skills he calls Wilderness Bushcraft, a philosophy that humans should live closer to nature, as the Bushmen do. In Extreme Survival he demonstrates his wilderness skills and shares amazing tales of survival from some of the world's most menacing environments.
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Title: Ray Mears' World of Survival
Character: Presenter
Released: February 24, 1997
Type: TV
Ray Mears' World of Survival is a survival television series hosted by Ray Mears. The series airs on the BBC in United Kingdom, it is also shown on Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada, India, Italy, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands and Russia. The show was first broadcast in 1997 with "The Arctic", and ended in 1998. It would be followed by Extreme Survival. In World of Survival, Ray demonstrates his wilderness skills and is taught new skills in every episode, like rubbing two sticks together to make fire. The show also has a cult status. Due to its popularity, more Ray Mears shows have since been produced.
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Title: Room 101
Character: Self
Released: July 4, 1994
Type: TV
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.
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We Belong To It
Title: We Belong To It
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
This film explores the visual beauty of the Boreal forest landscape, but also delves into Ray Mears’ reflections on nature and his mastered skillset in bushcraft. Follow Ray Mears - a renowned traveller and British TV Personality - as he journey's into the heart of Wabakimi Provincial Park in Northern Ontario, Canada.
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Ray Mears and the Path of Grey Owl
Title: Ray Mears and the Path of Grey Owl
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
“The question is not what we get out of nature, but what can we give back to nature.” The Path of Grey Owl is a new film by Goh Iromoto. It follows world-renowned woodsman Ray Mears through the wilderness of Temagami, Canada as he explores the path of acclaimed author and conservationist Grey Owl (also known as Archibald Belaney). While reflecting on the landscape that shaped Grey Owl into the person that he was, Ray further delves into Grey Owl’s message about protecting our wilderness, and explains why this is still so relevant and important in our present day.