Bob Godfrey
Directing
1921 – 2013 (aged 91)
Maitland, South Australia, Australia
17 acting credits
Biography
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.
Known For
A Hard Day's Night
07 Jul 1964
Help!
29 Jul 1965
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
11 Sep 1968
I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight
15 Feb 1976
Small Talk
01 Oct 1994
Henry's Cat
14 Sep 1983
Henry 9 'til 5
01 Jan 1970
Two off the Cuff
02 Jan 1969
Filmography
2014
- What is Animation?as Narrator (voice)
1997
- Ice Cream and Jelly and a Punch in the Bellyas Entertainer
1994
1988
- Honestly It's the Story of My Lifeas Barber
1983
- Henry's Catas Narrator (voice)51 episodes
1976
- I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonightas Postman
- Dear Margery Boobsas Worried Streatham (voice)
1974
- The Do-It-Yourself Film Animation Showas Bob Godfrey5 episodes
1970
- Henry 9 'til 5as Henry
1969
1968
- The Bliss of Mrs. Blossomas Factory Mechanic
1966
- L'art pour l'artas Pop
1965
- Help!as Priest
1964
- A Hard Day's Nightas Man in Pub (uncredited)