Bob Godfrey

Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE, 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. ^{Bob Godfrey, Australian-English animator, director, and voice actor (d. 2013)}

27 May 1921

Born on the same birth day (27 May): Bamba Fall • Dolores Hope • Douglas Lloyd Campbell • Eric Bischoff • Lee Sharpe • Louis-Ferdinand Céline • Ramsey Lewis • Rosemary Squire • Todd Demsey • William II, Prince of Orange • Yasuhiro Nakasone • Yoán Moncada • Yves Duhaime

Born in the same month (May 1921): Alida Valli • Andrei Sakharov • Anthony Epstein • Arthur Leonard Schawlow • Daniel Berrigan • Edna Doré • Edo Murtić • George S. Hammond • Joseph Beuys • Leslie Broderick • Sandy Douglas • Sugar Ray Robinson • Yuri Kochiyama