Jane Goodall

Personal Info

Birthday

April 3, 1934

Day of Death

2025-10-01

(91 years old)

Place of Birth

Hampstead, London, England, UK

Also Known As

Dame Jane Morris Goodall

Jane Morris Goodall

Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall

Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall

Jeyn Morris Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall

Biography

Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934 – 1 October 2025), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall was best known for her 55+ year study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.

Known For

The Simpsons

The Wild Thornberrys

You Rang, M'Lord?

Jane

Me...Jane

Humans and Other Animals

Filmography

2025
Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall
as Self
Nature : pour une réconciliation
as Self
2024
People & Wolves: a story of coexistence
as Self - Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
A Life Among Elephants
as Self - Interviewee
Humans and Other Animals
as Elle-même
2023
Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope
as Self
2021
Earth Emergency
as Self
Animal
as Self
Milked
as Self
The Last Tourist
as Self - Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute
The Center: Gibbons and Guardians
as Self
Planet Without Apes
as Self
Menschenaffen
as Self
We Are Nature
as Self
2020
Pant Hoot
as Herself
Jane Goodall and the Guardians of Biodiversity
as Self
Corona: The Pandemic and the Pangolin
as Self
Food for Change
as Self
Jane Goodall: The Hope
as Self
Jane New Generation
as Herself
2018
Into the Jungle
as Self
Jane Goodall: Saving Paradise
as Self
2017
Jane
as Self
Modified
as Self
2016
Seed: The Untold Story
as Self
H.O.P.E.: What You Eat Matters
as Herself
Attenborough at 90
as Self
2015
Time to Choose
as Self
Medicine of the Wolf
as Herself
Racing Extinction
as Self
Me...Jane
as voice
2011
Surviving Progress
as Self
Jane's Journey
as Self
2006
Historisk film om Dyreparken | Den levende Parken
as Self / Archive Photo
2004
Jane Goodall's Return to Gombe
as Herself
2003
One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps
as Self
2002
Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees
as Self
1995
30 Years of National Geographic Specials
as Self (archive footage)
1990
The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall
as Self
1988
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
as Self
1984
Among the Wild Chimpanzees
as Self
1965
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
as Self