Brian Cosgrove
Brian Joseph Cosgrove OBE (born 6 April 1934) is an English animator, designer, director, producer and sculptor, best known as the creator of the animated children shows "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 and comedian Sir David Jason, who has been a loyal collaborator on most of his projects.