Bob Godfrey

Birthday: 1921-05-27
Deathday: 2013-02-21
Birthplace: Maitland, South Australia, Australia
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE (27 May 1921 – 21 February 2013), known as Bob Godfrey, was an English animator whose career spanned more than fifty years.

He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb (1974), Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1976–77) and Henry's Cat (1983–93) and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s. However, he also produced a BAFTA and Academy award-winning short film Great (1975), a humorous biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Further Academy Awards nominations received were for Kama Sutra Rides Again (1971), Dream Doll (1979), with Zlatko Grgic, and Small Talk (1994) with animator Kevin Baldwin.

Credits

Year Title Character
1994-01-01 Know Your Europeans: The United Kingdom
1988-01-01 Honestly It's the Story of My Life Barber
1970-01-01 Henry 9 'til 5 Henry
1969-01-02 Two off the Cuff
1968-09-11 The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom Factory Mechanic
1966-01-01 L'art pour l'art Pop
1965-07-29 Help! Priest/Thug
1964-07-07 A Hard Day's Night Man in Pub (uncredited)
1960-01-01 Battle of New Orleans
1955-01-01 Bride and Groom