Brian Cosgrove


Brian Joseph Cosgrove OBE is an English BAFTA Award-winning director, producer, animator, designer and sculptor best known as the creator of the animated children shows Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.

Early life

Born in Northern 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 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, 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.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations