Alki David
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| Born | May 23, 1968 Lagos, Nigeria |
| Occupation | director, writer and actor |
Alki David is an actor, writer and director as well as making up one half of London production company '111 Pictures'.
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[edit] Biography
He is a philanthropist and explorer and was born in West Africa to a Greek trading and shipping family in 1968. He was educated at Stowe School in the UK as well as Le Rosey in Switzerland. Alki is also a graduate of the world famous Royal College of Art film programme.
David's career has been long, distinguished and diverse, after a short and covert stint in the British Army he has worked as a laboratory analyst for Coca Cola, a fish-farm labourer, a commodities broker on world markets, a water skiing instructor, advertising salesman, scuba instructor and radio jock.
David has homes in London, Los Angeles and on the Greek Island of Spetses.
David runs a media company, Full On Entertainment, which holds film and television production companies in Los Angeles and London, a record label, modelling agency and internet content development. He has also found time to act in and direct a number of award winning films for screen and television.
In 1995 David founded the not-for-profit organisation, BIOS (Ancient Greek for 'Life') which works on marine conservation in Greece, regularly performing massive underwater clean-ups. Members of the organisation lecture at high-school level about the importance of marine conservation worldwide. 'BIOS' also sponsors world record free-diving attempt on Alki's Greek-island home of Spetses.
[edit] Future Projects
David's most recent project is Fishtales, a film released in August 2007 which he co-wrote, directed and starred in, the film also stars Kelly Brook and Billy Zane and was filmed on the Greek island of Spetses where David has a home.
David has recently sparked controversy with an advert for Killing the Cheeky Girls appearing on Youtube to an audience quite puzzled as to what to think about it.
'Alki David's Road to Hell' features numerous pranks on the general public, most notably, 'gullible' people who want to appear films & TV shows, without realising Alki's background.
In December 2007, David confirmed his interest in the British debt-ridden football club Coventry City.[1] He was competing against Ray Ranson for ownership of the club, but has recently pulled out of his initial interest.
