28 Facts About Gerald Scarfe

Gerald Anthony Scarfe was born on 1 June 1936 and is an English cartoonist and illustrator.

Gerald Scarfe has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker.

Gerald Scarfe provided the opening titles for Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

Gerald Scarfe speculated that the dark and grotesque images that often characterise his work are a result of his loneliness and asthma.

Gerald Scarfe has stated that the irreverence apparent in much of his work can be traced back to "dodgy treatments" and a reliance on what he feels were incompetent doctors.

At the age of 14 and now living in Hampstead, North London, Gerald Scarfe decided it would be easy to cycle to Bayswater and visit Searle.

Gerald Scarfe went several times but never rang the doorbell.

Gerald Scarfe attended Saint Martin's School of Art in Holborn, London.

Gerald Scarfe attended the London College of Printing, and East Ham Technical College.

The Sunday Times magazine assigned Gerald Scarfe to cover the 1964 US presidential election.

Gerald Scarfe continued to work for The Sunday Times for two years, producing several cover illustrations for Time magazine, including caricatures of The Beatles in 1967.

Gerald Scarfe spent only one year working for the Daily Mail, during which time he was sent to provide illustrations from the Vietnam War.

Gerald Scarfe was approached to work with Pink Floyd after Roger Waters and Nick Mason both saw his animated BBC film A Long Drawn Out Trip.

Gerald Scarfe later produced a set of animated short clips used on the 1977 In The Flesh tour, including a full-length music video for the song Welcome to the Machine.

Gerald Scarfe continued to work with Roger Waters after the latter left Pink Floyd, creating the graphics and animation for Waters' solo album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking and its supporting tour.

Gerald Scarfe was involved in subsequent theatrical adaptations of The Wall, including The Wall Concert in Berlin, and Waters' worldwide The Wall Live tour, where his animations were projected on a vast scale.

Gerald Scarfe designed the 'Grot' logo for the BBC TV series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

Gerald Scarfe provided caricatures of Paul Eddington, Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds for the opening and closing sequences of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

Gerald Scarfe was approached to work on the 1997 Disney film Hercules by Ron Clements and John Musker, longtime fans who had risen to prominence within Disney following the success of The Little Mermaid.

Gerald Scarfe worked as a conceptual character artist, designing almost all of the characters and then supervising the 900 Disney artists charged with adapting his designs for the film.

Gerald Scarfe was invited to create a sculpture for the Millennium Dome, which was entitled "Self Portrait".

Gerald Scarfe has designed sets for a number of operatic productions, including an adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox.

Gerald Scarfe is lined up to provide animation for Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell, a stage show featuring Steinman's music.

Gerald Scarfe designed the sets and costumes for the English National Opera's 1988 production of Orpheus in the Underworld; among the costumes Gerald Scarfe designed were those of the characters Orpheus, Eurydice, and the Gods of Mount Olympus.

Gerald Scarfe produced all the costume and scenery designs for the 2002 Christopher Hampson production of The Nutcracker, for the English National Ballet.

In 2003 Gerald Scarfe collaborated with the National Portrait Gallery and BBC Four to make caricatures of a number of famous Britons, to depict their heroic and villainous attributes.

Unaware the cartoon would appear on Holocaust Memorial Day, Gerald Scarfe argued that the cartoon was clearly aimed specifically at Netanyahu and his policies, and were in response to his election, rather than being related to Holocaust Memorial Day.

Gerald Scarfe is married to actress Jane Asher, whom he met in 1971.