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- Birth nameKenneth Chester Balcomb III
- Ken Balcomb was born on November 11, 1940 in Clovis, New Mexico, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Dammed to Extinction (2019), The Nature of Things (1960) and The Killer Whale Who Changed the World. He died on December 15, 2022 in near the Elwha River, Washington, USA.
- He spent five decades studying the US Pacific Northwest's endangered killer whales, and helped put an end to their capture for display at marine parks.
- He graduated from the University of California at Davis, and served in the Navy during the Vietnam War as a pilot and oceanographic specialist.
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