Brian Cosgrove
| Brian Cosgrove | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Brian Joseph Cosgrove 1934 (age 82–83) Manchester, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Manchester College of Art and Design |
| Occupation | Animator, director, producer, designer, sculptor |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Notable work | |
Brian Joseph Cosgrove (born 1934) is an English BAFTA Award winningdirector, producer, animator, designer and sculptor best known as the creator of the animated children shows Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.
Born in North Manchester, Cosgrove studied at Manchester College of Art and Design, there he met his future work partner Mark Hall.
Cosgrove started career by producing television graphics at Granada Television. He later on joined Stop Frame Productions, which Mark Hall founded, there he worked on many public service films, commercials for companies like TVTimes and directing and produced animated shows such as The Magic Ball and Sally And Jake.
After Stop Frame Productions was shut down both Cosgrove and Hall founded Cosgrove Hall Films there they produced some of the most well known animated children's shows and films in Britain such as Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, The Wind in the Willows, which would later become a 52-episode TV series, Noddy's Toyland Adventures, Bill and Ben and Fifi and the Flowertots until 2009.
In 1989, Cosgrove directed and produced the animated feature film The BFG, based on the Roald Dahl novel of the same name. According to Cosgrove, this is one of the only adaptations, based on one of Roald Dahl's novels, that Dahl himself actually liked.
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