During a long career in television and film, Mose Richards has written more than 70 films, including a dozen IMAX-format films, a feature documentary and more than 50 non-fiction TV films (many of which he also produced). He has written for, among others, National Geographic, NOVA, The Discovery Channel, ABC/Kane, Disney, The Cousteau Society, Graphic Films, The National Air and Space Museum and National Wildlife Productions. In the past year he co-authored the Paramount/National Geographic theatrical documentary Arctic Tale and wrote the National Geographic 3-D large-format film Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure.
Mose has been honored with the Peabody Award, the Writer’s Guild Award for Best Documentary Script, the Distinguished Achievement Award of the International Documentary Association, and national prime-time Emmy nominations. IMAX films he wrote are some of the industry’s most successful, including Africa: Serengeti, Alaska: Spirit of the Wild, Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure, Lewis and Clark, Amazing Journeys and Forces of Nature. Mose has also written five natural-history books, and six children’s books.
After receiving a bachelor’s degree at Stanford and journalism master’s at UCLA, Mose served as a news producer and reporter for an NBC affiliate before beginning his documentary film career with David L. Wolper Productions, followed by twenty years traveling and filming with Jacques Cousteau. He has accompanied film teams in many parts of the world, and has worked out of offices in New York City, Paris, Los Angeles and his Connecticut home.