Bob Godfrey
British animator (1921-2013) · United Kingdom · On the map · Directors · Died at 91
Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE, 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...
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Know Your Europeans: The United KingdomFilm, Director1990
Wicked WillieFilm, Director1988
Honestly It's the Story of My LifeFilm, Barber1983
Henry's CatSeries, Director, Writer1980
Bio WomanFilm, Director1976Academy Award for Best Animated Short FilmAward
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArkSeries, 1976ProducerDear Margery BoobsFilm, 1976Director1974
RoobarbSeries, Producer
The Do-It-Yourself Film Animation ShowSeries, 1974Bob Godfrey1970
Henry 9 'til 5Film, Director1968Rope TrickFilm, Director1966
L'art pour l'artFilm, Director1965
The BeatlesSeries, Director1964
A Hard Day's NightFilm, Man in Pub (uncredited)1961
The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon KitFilm, Director1955
Bride and GroomFilm1952The Big ParadeFilm, Director1921Born27 May 1921People around Bob
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A Hard Day's Night 1964
Help! 1965
Great 1975
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
78 credits on file
Television 5
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SkylArk (1976-77) and Henry's Cat (1983-1993) 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.
