"children's show. The Bod stories were made into 5 minute films animated by Alan Rogers, based on Cole's original drawings, narrated by John Le Mesurier and with music by Derek Griffiths. The rest of the programme, narrated by Maggie Henderson, was made up of Cole's illustrations with games such as Bod snap, songs and stories of Alberto Frog and his Amazing Animal Band. Bod was broadcast on BBC until 1984. It was also shown in Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland and Israel. In the United States, Bod aired on Nickelodeon as part of the ""Pinwheel"" program."
"BAFTA) in 1973 for Best Children's Programme and was followed by a second series. In 1975, Cole developed the four original"" Bod"" books into a thirteen episode animated cartoon series for BBC. Narrated by John Le Mesurier and Maggie Henderson with music by Derek Griffiths, nine new stories were created which were later made into books. The films were animated by Alan Rogers and the programmes also featured Alberto Frog with artwork by Joanne Cole. ""Bod"" was broadcast on BBC until 1984. It was also shown in Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland and Israel. In the"
"animated series was commissioned, the four books had been read on another BBC children's programme: ""Play School"". In 1974, thirteen five-minute episodes were created for transmission on the BBC as part of the ""Watch with Mother"" series, and were also sold to Australia's ABC channel. Soon thereafter, it was shown in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland and Israel. In the United States, ""Bod"" aired on Nickelodeon as a segment on the ""Pinwheel"" program. The character of Bod is a boy who lives in a town with Aunt Flo, PC Copper, Frank the Postman and Farmer Barleymow. Each"
"have been two other tie-in books based on ""Bod"", by Alison and Lo Cole, the children of creators Joanne and Michael Cole. ""Bod's Way: The Meaning of Life"" was being worked on by Michael Cole before he died in 2001, and was completed by Alison. The books reveal the Taoist beliefs of Bod's original creators. Bod is a fictional deity in the BBC Radio 4 science fiction comedy ""Nebulous"", and the ""Bod"" theme music is heard in one episode. Bod (TV series) Bod is a BBC1 children's television programme first shown in 1975, with thirteen episodes, based on four original"
"The series of 13 episodes included nine new Bod adventures which were published as books in 1977 and illustrated by Cole. In 1982 Cole co- wrote with her husband the BBC children's programme ""Gran"". These tales of a most surprising grandmother, which were later developed into books illustrated by Cole, were animated by Ivor Wood and narrated by Patricia Hayes. She also provided artwork regularly for ITV's ""Rainbow"" and BBC's ""Play School"". Cole died of cancer in 1985 aged 51 and in the same year Michael Cole wrote and produced ""Fingermouse"", a musical version of ""Fingerbobs"" starring paper puppets made"
"Brad Bird Phillip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American animation director, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is best known for his animated feature films, ""The Iron Giant"" (1999), ""The Incredibles"" (2004), ""Ratatouille"" (2007), and ""Incredibles 2"" (2018). Bird developed a love for the art of animation at an early age and was mentored by Milt Kahl, one of Disney's reputed Nine Old Men. He was part of one of the earliest graduating classes of the California Institute of the Arts alongside John Lasseter and Tim Burton. Afterward, Bird worked as an animator for Disney in ""The"
"Gerald McBoing-Boing Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated short film produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and given wide release by Columbia Pictures on November 2, 1950. The winner of the 1950 Academy Award for Best Animated Short, ""Gerald McBoing-Boing"" is the story of a little boy who speaks through sound effects instead of spoken words. It was adapted by Phil Eastman and Bill Scott from a story by Dr. Seuss, directed by Robert Cannon, and produced by John Hubley. In 1994, it was voted #9 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field,"
"Paul Boyd (animator) Paul Boyd (September 30, 1967 – August 13, 2007) was an American-born Canadian animator. He was a member of a.k.a. Cartoon, the production team for the Cartoon Network longest running hit television series, ""Ed, Edd n' Eddy"" as a title sequence animator and director. He was responsible for creating the opening sequence of the series. He began his career working for International Rocketship on two Gary Larson specials. During his career he taught at Vancouver Film School and worked at many animation studios in Vancouver. His work directing for ""Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show!"", along with"
"of the characters has their own theme music performed by Griffiths which is heard when they appear. Regular features are animal identification and Bod Snap. There is also another set of characters who appear in each episode called ""Alberto Frog and his Amazing Animal Band"" with artwork by Joanne Cole. This section featured short extracts from famous pieces of classical music as part of the story, and always ended with Alberto choosing a different flavour of milkshake as his reward for solving a problem, and was narrated by Maggie Henderson. ""Bod"" has appeared in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV"
"by Cole. Joanne Cole Joanne Cole (1934-1985) was the illustrator of children's books in the 1960s through to the 1980s. She also created artwork and puppets for British TV children's programmes. Together with husband Michael Cole they created ""Bod"". Bod originally appeared as four books, published in the UK by Methuen in 1965 and later released in France and the United States. The Coles collaborated on other children books including ""Wet Albert"" (1967) about a boy followed around by a rain cloud with crayon drawings by Cole and a series of four ""Kate and Sam"" books (1971) about the over-imaginative"
"Byron Howard Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, story artist and occasional voice actor at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is best known as the co-director of ""Bolt"" (2008), ""Tangled"" (2010), and ""Zootopia"" (2016), and a supervising animator on ""Lilo & Stitch"" (2002) and ""Brother Bear"" (2003). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for ""Tangled"" and won an Oscar for ""Zootopia"". Howard was born in Misawa, Japan, and raised in both the outskirts of Philadelphia and Issaquah, Washington, United States, in a middle-class family. He attended Evergreen State College"
"still only makes sounds, but he now has two speaking friends, Janine and Jacob, as well as a dog named Burp, who only burps (accompanied by someone, usually Gerald's mother, saying ""excuse me"" afterwards). Gerald's parents (names unknown) also fill out the regular cast. The television series was produced in Canada by Cookie Jar Entertainment, and directed by Robin Budd and story edited/written by John Derevlany. The animation was done by Mercury Filmworks in Ottawa & Vancouver. The music and score for the series was composed by Ray Parker and Tom Szczesniak. Gerald McBoing Boing is shown of Cartoon Network"
"Joanne Cole Joanne Cole (1934-1985) was the illustrator of children's books in the 1960s through to the 1980s. She also created artwork and puppets for British TV children's programmes. Together with husband Michael Cole they created ""Bod"". Bod originally appeared as four books, published in the UK by Methuen in 1965 and later released in France and the United States. The Coles collaborated on other children books including ""Wet Albert"" (1967) about a boy followed around by a rain cloud with crayon drawings by Cole and a series of four ""Kate and Sam"" books (1971) about the over-imaginative ideas of"
"a young brother and sister. She also illustrated seven Jill Tomlinson books, including ""The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark"" (1973). In 1972 the Coles created the children's BBC TV show ""Fingerbobs"", starring Rick Jones and the finger-puppet adventures of a paper mouse and his friends, made by Cole. In 1973 Cole created puppets and artwork for BBC children's programme ""Ragtime"", which won a Society of Film and Television Award (later known as a BAFTA) in 1973 for Best Children's Programme and was followed by a second series. In 1975 the original Bod books were developed into a BBC"
"Fred Wolf (animator) Fred Wolf (born September 13, 1932) is an American animator. His works include the 1967 short subject ""The Box"", for which he won an Academy Award; television specials such as ""The Point!"" and ""Free to Be...You and Me"", and television series such as ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"", ""James Bond Jr."", and Sarah Ferguson’s ""Budgie the Little Helicopter"". Wolf was also responsible for the famous Tootsie Pops “How Many Licks” commercial. In the 1960s, Wolf set up a studio in Hollywood, California with Japanese-American animator Jimmy T. Murakami (later of ""The Snowman""). The studio was called Murakami-Wolf Films."
"Rodger Bumpass Rodger Bumpass (born November 20, 1951) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for his long-running role as Squidward Tentacles on the American animated television series ""SpongeBob SquarePants"". He voices many other characters on the show, including Purple Doctorfish and various anchovies. He also voiced The Chief in the animated series ""Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?"", and Mr. Besser, the school principal in the animated series ""The Kids from Room 402"". Bumpass has many other credits in animated films, animated television series, and video games. Bumpass was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on"
"Tino Insana Silvio Peter ""Tino"" Insana (February 15, 1948 – May 31, 2017) was an American actor, producer, writer, voice artist, and comedian. He is best known as the voice of Uncle Ted on ""Bobby's World"", Bushroot on ""Darkwing Duck"", and Pig in ""Barnyard"" and ""Back at the Barnyard"". Insana was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 15, 1948, the son of Silvio A. Insana, a musician, and Hiloray (Swanson). In 1971, Insana co-founded a local comedy troupe known as the West Compass Trio, along with Steve Beshekas and John Belushi. Insana's highly-distinguishable voice has been featured in many animated"
"Award and Saturn Award wins, Bird holds the record of the most animation Annie Award wins with eight, winning both Best Directing and Best Writing for each of ""The Iron Giant"", ""The Incredibles"" and ""Ratatouille"", as well as Best Voice Acting for ""The Incredibles"". His eighth Annie was the 2011 Winsor McCay Award for lifetime contribution to animation. Brad Bird Phillip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American animation director, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is best known for his animated feature films, ""The Iron Giant"" (1999), ""The Incredibles"" (2004), ""Ratatouille"" (2007), and ""Incredibles 2"" (2018). Bird"
"Edd Gould Edward Duncan Ernest Gould (28 October 1988 – 25 March 2012) was a British animator, artist and voice actor. He was known for creating ""Eddsworld"", a media franchise consisting of flash animations and webcomics featuring fictionalised versions of himself and longtime collaborators Thomas Ridgewell, Matt Hargreaves and others. After Gould's death in 2012, production of ""Eddsworld"" has been continued by his friends, produced by Ridgewell. However since then, Thomas has stated ""The End"" was his last episode. Now, Matthew and Edd’s sister, Vicky, are currently animating the series. It is not known who is writing the scripts. Edward"
"Derek Griffiths Derek Griffiths (born 15 July 1946) is a British actor who appeared in numerous British children's television series in the 1960s to present and has more recently played parts in TV drama. Griffiths was known in his early years for his ""Play School"" appearances alongside the likes of Chloe Ashcroft, Johnny Ball and Brian Cant. A talented multi-instrumentalist, he voiced over and sang the theme tune to ""Heads and Tails"", a series of short animal films for children produced by BBC Television, and also sang and played the theme tune to the cartoon ""Bod"". Another children's TV role"
"Bo on the Go! Bo on the Go! is a Canadian children's television show created by Jeff Rosen produced by Halifax Film in association with CBC Television. The show emphasizes the importance movement for children through a plot element called ""Animoves,"" animations demonstrating specific body movements young viewers must learn in order to solve adventures highlighted in each program's storyline. It is broadcast in Canada on CBC Television in the Kids' CBC programming block. It is currently broadcast on 17 broadcasters around the world, in over 12 languages, including Spanish, French (retitled ""1, 2, 3, Bo!""), Italian, Greek, Arabic, Thai,"
"Bud Luckey William Everett ""Bud"" Luckey (July 28, 1934 – February 24, 2018) was an American animator, cartoonist, singer, musician, designer, composer, artist and voice actor. He is best known for his work at Pixar, where he worked as a character designer on a number of films, including ""Toy Story"", ""Boundin'"", ""Toy Story 2"", ""A Bug's Life"", ""Monsters, Inc."", ""Finding Nemo"", ""Cars"" and ""Ratatouille"". Luckey was also known as the voice of Rick Dicker in ""The Incredibles"", Chuckles the Clown in ""Toy Story 3"" and as Eeyore in the 2011 ""Winnie the Pooh"" film. In 2004, Luckey directed and wrote"
"Justin Roiland Justin Roiland (born February 21, 1980) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer and director. He is best known as the co-creator and executive producer of Adult Swim's ""Rick and Morty"", in which he voices the show's titular characters, the voice of Oscar on Disney Channel's ""Fish Hooks"", the Earl of Lemongrab on Cartoon Network's ""Adventure Time"" and Blendin Blandin on ""Gravity Falls"". Roiland grew up on an almond orchard in Manteca, California. He attended Sierra High School for all of his time in high school up to the first quarter of his senior year and then transferred"
"on the children's television programme ""Bod"", the theme tune of which has become a hymn, sung in Gregorian chant. Bod is analogous to God, hence the commonly used phrase ""Oh my Bod!"" ""Nebulous"" follows the adventures of the eco-troubleshooting team ""KENT"" (the ""Key Environmental Non-Judgmental Taskforce"", named after the English county of Kent). The group is directed by Professor Nebulous toward the goal of restoring a natural balance to Earth. However, they are woefully under-funded; KENT was forced to open a laundry to supplement funds. There is at least one other eco-troubleshooting team based in England, but despite their common"
"stomach surgery, related to his cancer. Andy Cunningham (actor) Andrew Cunningham (13 May 1950 – 5 June 2017) was an English actor, puppeteer, ventriloquist and writer. He was best known as the creator and main writer of the children's BBC television series, ""Bodger & Badger"", in which he acted as the likeable but accident prone Simon Bodger and his pet, Badger. Cunningham studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read English. He dropped out of this course at the end of the second of its three years, citing academic pressures as the reason for doing so, but later completed"
"Boundin' Boundin is a 2003 Pixar computer-animated short film, which was shown in theaters before the feature-length film ""The Incredibles"". The short is a musically narrated story about a dancing sheep, who loses his confidence after being sheared. The film was written, directed, narrated and featured the musical composition and performance of Pixar animator Bud Luckey. The film features a sheep that lives in the American West. His elegant dancing is popular with the other animals. One day the sheep-shearers arrive and shear him for wool. Having lost his coat, the other animals laugh at the sheep and he becomes"
"Jodi Carlisle Jodi Carlisle (born August 28, 1960) is an American actress who has appeared in 46 television shows, 5 feature films and four television movies as well as a number of stage plays. Carlisle is perhaps best known as one of the principal voice actors on the long running children's animated TV series ""The Wild Thornberrys."" Actress Jodi Carlisle has been performing voice work since 1982, beginning with the cartoon series ""Pac-Man"". Two of her main voice roles were the characters of Wendy Richter and The Fabulous Moolah on the ""Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling"" Saturday morning cartoon series."
"Fred Figglehorn Fred Figglehorn (stylized on webpage and on T-shirts as FЯED) is a fictional character created and portrayed by American actor Lucas Cruikshank. Fred is a six-year-old boy with a high-pitched voice, dysfunctional home life, and ""anger management issues."" Cruikshank, a teenager from Columbus, Nebraska, created the ""Fred"" video series for his channel on the video-sharing Web site YouTube, to center on the Fred character. Although Cruikshank voices Fred, the audio is digitally altered to sound higher-pitched than Cruikshank's true voice. Cruikshank introduced the Fred character in a video on JKL Productions, a channel he started on YouTube with"
"Earl Hurd Earl Hurd (September 14, 1880 – September 28, 1940) was a pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent ""Bobby Bumps"" animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions. Hurd and Bray are jointly responsible for developing the processes involved in cel animation, and were granted patents for their processes in 1914. American Animator Andy Luckey (1965- ) is a maternal cousin, twice removed, of Hurd's. Hurd, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, later worked for Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio before starting his own Earl Hurd Productions"
"Andy Cunningham (actor) Andrew Cunningham (13 May 1950 – 5 June 2017) was an English actor, puppeteer, ventriloquist and writer. He was best known as the creator and main writer of the children's BBC television series, ""Bodger & Badger"", in which he acted as the likeable but accident prone Simon Bodger and his pet, Badger. Cunningham studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read English. He dropped out of this course at the end of the second of its three years, citing academic pressures as the reason for doing so, but later completed his degree at the University of"
"Fingerbobs Fingerbobs was a British children's television programme made by the BBC in 1972. The first episode was broadcast on 14 February 1972 on BBC1 as part of ""Watch with Mother"". The show was created by Joanne and Michael Cole, who also created Bod. Only thirteen episodes were ever made. Presented by mime artist ""Yoffy"" (played by Canadian actor Rick Jones), each ten-minute episode told a story centred on a paper finger puppet animal and usually involved collecting various items (such as pebbles or feathers) to make up another object at the end. The finger puppets, each of whom had"
"""fantasy tales"" are done in Seussian rhyme. There are also sound checks, gags, and ""real-life"" portions of the show. Gerald still only makes sounds, but now has two speaking friends, Janine and Jacob, as well as a dog named Burp, who only burps. Gerald's parents (names unknown) complete the regular cast, although his mother has black hair in this series instead of blonde. The series was produced in Canada by Cookie Jar Entertainment, and directed by Robin Budd and story edited/written by John Derevlany. The animation was done by Mercury Filmworks in Ottawa. Gerald McBoing-Boing Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated"
"Go, Baby! Go, Baby! is a series of short interstitial programs created by Josh Selig originally airing on the Disney Channel from 2004 to 2014. The series features an African American infant named Baby and his Asian infant playmate, Sophie, both of whom are created by animating still photographs. The series also features an animated butterfly named Butterfly. The show's production company is Little Airplane Productions. The narrator is represented by an adult human hand and is voiced by actor and writer Richard Kind. The characters are placed in may different settings and along with them the viewers are encouraged"