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{{Short description|British artist}}
{{infobox artist
| name = William Timym
| birth_date = {{birth date|1902|10|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = Vienna, Austria
| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|05|31|1902|10|5|df=y}}
| education = [[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna]]
| known_for = Painter, Animator
| notable_works = ''[[Bleep and Booster]]''
| nationality = British (naturalised)
}}
[[File:INF3-76 pt5 General Sir Bernard Montgomery Artist Tim.jpg|thumb|Timym's portrait of [[Bernard Montgomery|General Montgomery]] created during the Second World War for the [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]] ]]
'''William Timym''', {{Post-nominals | country = GBR | MBE}} (1902–1990) was an artist whose best known work is probably the ''[[Bleep and Booster]]'' cartoons for the [[BBC]]'s ''[[Blue Peter]]''.

Timym (pronounced Tim) was Austrian, grew up in Vienna and studied at the [[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna]].  He moved to England in 1938 because of the [[Nazism|Nazi]] occupation of Austria and during the Second World War produced a number of works for the [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]].

He became a naturalised British citizen in April 1949.<ref name="The National Archives catalogue">{{cite web|title=HO 334/321/3177|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-6612489&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CTIMYM&accessmethod=0|work=The National Archives catalogue|access-date=18 June 2012}}</ref>

He was also a bronze sculptor and created many realistic (rather than stylised) wildlife sculptures. These include a statue of ''Blue Peter'''s dog Petra, a lion bust at [[Gloucester]]'s [[Nature in Art]] museum, a lifesize ''Sumatran white rhino'' at [[Howletts Wild Animal Park]] in [[Canterbury]], and a {{cvt|15|ft}} ''elephant fountain'' at [[Saint Louis Zoo]]. Other cartoons he produced include ''Bengo the Boxer puppy'' and ''Wuff, Snuff and Tuff''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.turnipnet.com/whirligig/tv/children/other/bengo.htm|title = Bengo the Boxer Pup}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://lambiek.net/artists/t/tim.htm Tim]
*[http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/other/bengo.htm British 1950s TV and Radio]
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[[Category:1920 births]]
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[[Category:Austrian illustrators]]
[[Category:Austrian male sculptors]]
[[Category:Austrian animators]]
[[Category:Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni]]
[[Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Saint Louis Zoo people]]
[[Category:20th-century sculptors]]
[[Category:Austrian refugees]]
[[Category:Austrian emigrants to the United Kingdom]]

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