Biography for Les StroudHost, Producer, Writer for Beyond Survival With Les Stroud
Best known as the star of Discovery Channel's series Survivorman, Les Stroud continues to break new ground as a filmmaker and television host. Combining his love for the outdoors and his skills as a producer, Stroud has appeared in numerous television programs including Discovery Channel's Shark Feeding Frenzy, I Shouldn't Be Alive: The Science Of Survival, Surviving Sharks, Expedition Everest, After The Experiment, and Deadly Waters, as well as Science Channel's Surviving Urban Disasters.
Survivorman — the hit series hosted, filmed, produced and written by Les Stroud — was chosen as the number one pick on Wired magazine's 'Top Ten' list in February 2007. Stroud also made the 2007 'Top 100 People We Love to Watch' list in Entertainment Weekly magazine. He has appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, MTV Live, The View, The Hour, as well as four appearances on Larry King Live. Survivorman has been celebrated by parody on the hit sitcom The Office as well as King of the Hill.
Stroud's book Survive! - Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere- Alive! made the Amazon and Harper Collins' bestseller lists for 20 weeks and broke the top 100 on Amazon.com. He is currently writing his second and third books.
After spending years alone surviving in the wild, Les's latest series Beyond Survival With Les Stroud takes him even further off the beaten path. Stroud seeks out the true masters of survival — the last indigenous tribes around the world — to learn their techniques, take part in their rituals, and share the secrets of how they've survived for thousands of years ... before they vanish forever.
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