Brian Cosgrove

Brian Joseph Cosgrove Template:Post-nominals (born 6 April 1934) is an English animator, designer, director, producer and sculptor. With Mark Hall, he founded Cosgrove Hall Films in 1976 and produced successful animated children shows including The Wind in the Willows, Danger Mouse and Count Duckula. In 2012, he won the BAFTA Special Award.

Early life

Born in Manchester, Cosgrove studied at Manchester College of Art and Design. It was there he met his future work partner Mark Hall.

Career

Cosgrove started his career by producing television graphics at Granada Television. He later joined Stop Frame Productions, which his partner at Granada Television, Mark Hall founded, where he worked on many public service films, commercials for companies like TVTimes and directed and produced animated shows such as The Magic Ball and Sally And Jake.

After Stop Frame Productions was shut down, Cosgrove and Hall founded Cosgrove Hall Films, where 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.

Since 2011, Cosgrove has been the creator and executive producer of Cosgrove Hall Fitzpatrick Entertainment.

Personal life

Cosgrove is good friends with actor Sir David Jason, who has been a loyal collaborator on most of his projects.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Animation/Art Department	Notes
1989	The BFG	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Key animator, designer and background artist

Television

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Animation/Art Department	Notes
1966	Picture Box	Template:Yes			Episodes: "A Calm Country River in Holland" "The Seaside Holiday"
1971–1972	The Magic Ball	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
1972	Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes		TV movie
	Rainbow			Template:Yes	Episodes: "Shapes" "Farm Animals"
1975	Noddy	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
1976–1979	Chorlton and the Wheelies		Template:Yes
	Jamie and the Magic Torch		Template:Yes
1978	Captain Kremmen		Template:Yes
	The Talking Parcel	Template:Yes	Template:Yes		TV movie
1979	Cinderella		Template:Yes		TV movie
1980–1986	Cockleshell Bay		Template:Yes
1981–1992	Danger Mouse	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Animator
1981	The Pied Piper of Hamelin		Template:Yes		TV short
1983	The Wind in the Willows		Template:Yes	Template:Yes	TV movie Model character/sculpture designer
1984–1990	The Wind in the Willows		Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Model character/sculpture designer
1985-1986	Alias the Jester		Template:Yes
1988–1993	Count Duckula		Template:Yes
1989–1990	Oh, Mr. Toad		Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Model character/sculpture designer
1991–1992	Victor and Hugo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
1992	Noddy's Toyland Adventures		Template:Yes		Executive producer
	On Christmas Eve	Template:Yes	Template:Yes		TV movie
	Truckers		Template:Yes		Executive producer
1993	Avenger Penguins		Template:Yes
1995	Fantomcat		Template:Yes
1995	Oakie Doke		Template:Yes
1996	Sooty's Amazing Adventures		Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Executive producer designer
1997	Captain Star			Template:Yes	Animation producer
1999	Lavender Castle		Template:Yes		Executive producer
1999	Foxbusters		Template:Yes
2000	Albie			Template:Yes	Texture artist
2014–2015	Pip Ahoy!		Template:Yes		Executive producer
2015-2016	Danger Mouse		Template:Yes
2017-present	Daisy & Ollie		Template:Yes

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Title	Result
1983	BAFTA Award	Best Children's Programme (Entertainment/Drama)	Danger Mouse	Template:Nom
1984				Template:Nom
		Best Animated Film	The Wind in the Willows	Template:Nom
			Danger Mouse	Template:Nom
		Best Children's Programme (Entertainment/Drama)	The Wind in the Willows	Template:Won
1985			The Wind in the Willows	Template:Nom
		Best Animated Film		Template:Nom
			Danger Mouse	Template:Nom
	CableACE Award	Children's Programming Series	Danger Mouse	Template:Nom
1986	BAFTA Award	Best Children's Programme (Entertainment/Drama)	The Wind in the Willows	Template:Nom
			Danger Mouse	Template:Nom
		Best Short Animated Film	Alias the Jester	Template:Won
			The Wind in the Willows	Template:Nom
			Danger Mouse	Template:Nom
1987		Best Animated Film	The Wind in the Willows	Template:Nom
			Danger Mouse	Template:Nom
1988		Best Short Animated Film	The Wind in the Willows	Template:Nom
	CableACE Award	Children's Entertainment Special or Series - 8 and Younger		Template:Nom
1989				Template:Nom
1990	BAFTA Award	Best Children's Programme (Entertainment/Drama)	The BFG	Template:Nom

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