Bob Godfrey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bob Godfrey

British animator

Date of Birth: 27-May-1921

Place of Birth: Maitland, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 21-Feb-2013

Profession: animator, film producer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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 (1974–75), Noah and Nelly in...
SkylArk (1976-77) and Henry's Cat (1983–95) 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.