Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE, known as Bob Godfrey, was an English animator whose career spanned more than fifty years.
11 Facts About Bob Godfrey
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Bob Godfrey is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb, Noah and Nelly in.
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Bob Godfrey attended school in Ilford, Essex, and Leyton Art School, at first working at Lever Brothers as a graphic artist during the 1930s.
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Bob Godfrey was taken on by the Larkins Studio in 1950 where he worked with Peter Sachs before leaving to set up Biographic with Keith Learner and Jeff Hale.
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Bob Godfrey subsequently made Do It Yourself Cartoon Kit which satirises animation and commercial advertising.
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Bob Godfrey worked as an uncredited adviser on Yellow Submarine.
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Bob Godfrey was the director of the short film Great, a humorous look at the life and works of the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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Henry's Cat, created by Stan Hayward and animated and narrated by Bob Godfrey, was first screened on 12 September 1983.
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Bob Godfrey was awarded an MBE in 1986, and received the newly established Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bradford Animation Festival on 18 November 2007, with the festival including a retrospective of his films.
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Bob Godfrey taught animation at West Surrey College of Art and Design.
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Bob Godfrey had a long association with the Royal College of Art.