Tim Saunders
- Known for
- Acting
Biography
Author battlefield guide and full time military historian, Tim Saunders was Educated at Clayesmore School and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served as an officer in the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment for thirty years and has a life long interest in military history. As an officer cadet, he undertook his first battlefield tour of Normandy on a bicycle at the age of eighteen, during leave from Sandhurst, where he was one of a generation of officers who studied under Professor Richard Holmes. Since then his service, including the Falklands, Northern Ireland, the Gulf and the Balkans, has provided him with the opportunity to visit many less well known battlefields around the world. Since leaving the Army Tim has appeared on TV in programmes as diverse as Channel 4's Time Team, Battlefield Detectives, the word programme Balderdash and Piffle' and most recently the Lost Evidence series for the History Channel. Tim is also an author with over 10 military history titles to his name. As a battlefield guide Tim is an expert on World Wars 1 and 2 and has conducted tours at all levels from private, through schools to Amilitary units and Headquarters. Tim is a badged member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides. Tim is a director of Battlefield History TV and is it's Creative Director responible for all direction and editing.
Known For
Filmography
The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack
Movie · as Presenter
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
Movie · as Director and Presenter
Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4
Movie · as Presenter
The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo
Movie · as Director and Editor
Siege Warfare 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo & Badajoz - The Keys to Spain
Movie · as Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble
Movie · as Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?
Movie · as Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery
Movie · as Presenter
SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket
Movie · as Director and Presenter
The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse
Movie · as Presenter
The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War
Movie · as Presenter
The Battle of Naseby 1645
Movie · as Presenter
The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914
Movie · as Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper
Movie · as Presenter
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
Movie · as Presenter and Writer
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna
Movie · as Presenter
100 Years War: Poitiers 1356
Movie · as Presenter
First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea
Movie · as Presenter and Director
The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger
Movie · as Presenter
Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack
Movie · as Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne
Movie · as Presenter
Battles of the Marne & the Aisne
Movie · as Presenter
The Schlieffen Plan
Movie · as Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith
Movie · as Presenter
The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid
Movie · as Presenter & Director
Mons 1914
Movie · as Presenter and Director
Le Cateau
Movie · as Presenter and Director
Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret
Movie · as Presenter & Director
Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc
Movie · as Presenter and Director
Néry and the Retreat from Mons
Movie · as Presenter
95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees
Movie · as Presenter
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches
Movie · as Presenter
100 Years War: Agincourt 1415
Movie · as Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne
Movie · as Himself - Presenter
100 Years War: Crecy 1346
Movie · as Presenter
Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne
Movie · as Presenter
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead
Movie · as Presenter
SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways
Movie · as Presenter
Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach
Movie · as Presenter
Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting
Movie · as Presenter
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods
Movie · as Director and Presenter
12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division
Movie · as Presenter
SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour
Movie · as Presenter
Salamanca
Movie · as Presenter
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter
Movie · as Presenter
Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen
Movie · as Presenter
The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1
Movie · as Presenter
Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks
Movie · as Presenter
Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge
Movie · as Presenter
Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace
Movie · as Presenter
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD
Movie · as Himself - Presenter and Writer
The 1066 Hastings Campaign
Movie · as Presenter
The Race to the Sea - 1914
Movie · as Presenter