Alki David

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Alki David is an actor, writer and director as well as making up one half of London production company '111 Pictures'. With an estimated fortune of some ₤1.5 billion, he is joint-47th on the Sunday Times Rich List.cite news | url = http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article3796528.ece| title = Alki David and the Leventis Family| publisher = The Sunday Times| date = 2008-04-27]

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 claims to have worked briefly and covertly in the British Army, 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 acted in and directed 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. 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.

Recent Projects

David's most recent project is FilmOn, a video-on-demand website which he says made profits of £7 million in 2008, its first year of operationcite news | url = http://www.businessxl.co.uk/businessxl-magazine/trailblazers/337731/alki-david--a-man-of-many-parts.thtml| title = Alki David: a man of many parts| publisher = Business XL| date = 2008-05-01] .

His most recent film is "Fishtales", 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.

In December 2007, David confirmed his interest in the British debt-ridden football club Coventry City.cite news | url = http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2225068,00.html| title = Billionaire enters Coventry talks| publisher = The Guardian| date = 2007-12-10] He was competing against Ray Ranson for ownership of the club, but subsequently backed out of the deal.

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0202810|name=Alki David
* [http://www.slamcartel.com/ Alki's website]
* [http://www.fullonentertainment.com/index.html Full On Entertainment's Official Site]
* [http://www.filmon.com FilmOn]
* [http://www.littleblueocean.com/ 'BIOS' Official website]
* [http://www.fishtalesmovie.com Site for Alki's latest project, "Fishtales"]
* [http://www.111pictures.com Official Site for '111 Pictures']
* [http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2225068,00.html Billionaire film actor comes to Coventry's rescue]