#brian trueman

[chrissignore]

If you grew up watching any of the following animated shows (and others too numerous to mention), you can thank one person for that:

* Danger Mouse

* Count Duckula

* The Wind in the Willows

* Victor and Hugo, Bunglers in Crime

* Cockleshell Bay

* Jamie and the Magic Torch

* Budgie the Little Helicopter

* The Treacle People

Writer, Voice Actor, TV Presenter. A true powerhouse in children's TV. There'll never be another like Brian Trueman 💔⭐

[granitoons]

[iconuk01]

RIP to Brian Trueman, writer of many, MANY classic Kids TV shows in the UK since the 1970's including, but by no means limited to, the greatest secret agent in the world: Danger Mouse

[dannyreviews]

Animation Professionals Over 90 Still Alive

10 years ago, Cartoon Brew had an article about animators from the Golden Age and beyond over a certain age still living.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/who-are-the-oldest-living-animation-artists-88196.html

Unfortunately, the lion's share of that group have since passed away, save for a handful of names. For this post, I would like to highlight (in age order) those from studios like Disney, Warner Brothers as well as independent bases that are around today who represent the last living links to old school animation. These include artists, directors and writers. Exclusive voice actors or animated music composers are not counted.

Vera Linnecar (b. 1923) Halas/Bachelor, Bob Godfrey

Enid Wizig (b. 1923) Warner Brothers

Joe Hale (b. 1925) Disney

Lillian Schwartz (b. 1927) Independent (Update: Passed Away on October 12, 2024)

Witold Giersz (b. 1927) Independent

Bob Singer (b. 1928) Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera

Yoji Kuri (b. 1928) Independent

Robert Verrall (b. 1928) National Film Board of Canada

Peter Maddocks (b. 1928) Independent

Zdeňka Deitchová (b. 1928) Gene Deitch

Art Leonardi (b. 1929) Warner Brothers, MGM

Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) Paramount, Terrytoons

Don Iwerks (b. 1929) Disney

Phil Roman (b. 1930) Chuck Jones, Fox, Independent

Howard Beckerman (b. 1930) Famous Studios, Terrytoons, Independent (Update: Passed Away on June 29, 2024)

R.O. Blechman (b. 1930) Terrytoons, Independent

Stan Hayward (b. 1930) Bob Godfrey

Joseph Koenig (b. 1930) National Film Board of Canada

Jack Heiter (b. 1930) Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, UPA

Rein Raamat (b. 1931) Independent

Ed Seeman (b. 1931) Paramount

Fred Wolf (b. 1932) Independent

Brian Trueman (b. 1932) BBC (Update: Passed Away on September 1, 2024)

Fumio Kurokawa (b. 1932) Nippon Animation

Yvonne Andersen (b. 1932) Independent

Masaki Tsuji (b. 1932) Mushi, Toen, TMS

Dean Tavoularis (b. 1932) Disney

Doris A. Plough (b. 1932) Disney, Don Bluth, Hanna-Barbera, Fox

Inessa Kovalevskaya (b. 1933) Soyuzmultfilm

Boris Kolar (b. 1933) Independent (no other photo available)

Update (12/23): Adding Virginia Fleener (b. 1922) Disney

[cultfaction]

Preview- Danger Mouse: The Complete Collection (DVD)

“Heʼs the greatest, heʼs fantastic, wherever there is danger heʼll be there.” Under a post box “somewhere in Mayfair” our furry secret agent duly receives his instructions from the spluttering Colonel K. Then itʼs into the Mousemobile with trusty sidekick Penfold in tow – and so begins another adventure for our righteous rodent! Featuring the voices of David Jason, as our eponymous hero, and…

[sean-gaffney]

Penfold... shush.

[askdangermouse]

Happy 43rd and R.I.P Brian Trueman.

A while ago we've lost one of the original writers for Danger Mouse, Brian Trueman, may god rest his soul peacefully , and thank you for bringing Danger Mouse to how he is.

And let's all raise tea cups and glasses to our one-eyed icon of Britain's 43rd Anniversary!

[shironezuninja]

Really!? Brian Trueman just died, and I can’t stream the PG-13 film, “Once Upon a Deadpool”!? I wish to see this version of Deadpool 2, since I spent my time giving the 4th wall breaking British Mouse a piece of my emo, tsundere OC. Using emojis in my fanfics was another plus when it came to cursing.

[thetreaclepeople]

We are deeply saddened to hear that Brian Trueman passed away on Sunday, aged 92. A hugely talented writer and a lovely man, Brian co-wrote The Treacle People with his son Jonathan, as well as lending his voice to Charlie and the nefarious Furness. He will be very sorely missed.

[allthenewzworld]

Brian Trueman, the British writer behind cartoons including Danger Mouse and Count Duckula, has died aged 92, his son has said.

Ben Trueman wrote on the X social media platform: "Some sad news. My father, Brian Trueman, has died.

#dangermouse #mouse #danger #tvshow #classic #cartoon #british #CountDuckula #allthenews

[trustsnew]

The Danger Mouse writer Brian Trueman has died aged 92, his representative confirmed to the PA news agency.His son Jonathan Trueman announced the death of his father in a Facebook post, saying said he...

[realindevelopment-returns]

what's that, dm?

[105nt]

I have started The Casual Vacancy by JKR and restarted Precious Bane by Mary Webb.

Might just be because I am having a Tolstoy binge at the moment, but the opening to The Casual Vacancy, where we get a large cast of characters introduced very skillfully, strikes me as very Tolstoyish.

I have also taken to listening to Trueman and Riley while I'm pulling up the weeds. (I always have an intense gardening spasm in April/May, before the green stuff wins and I just let it grow where it wants. 😁) It takes absolutely no effort to listen to it, and I can miss five minutes of plot development (if that's the right description, because very little happens) while losing reception in the darkest reaches of the compost heap without losing the jist.

[thekidwholaughslikeapsychopath]

Brick (2005)

Cinematography: Steve Yedlin

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brendan Frye), Nora Zehetner (Laura), Lukas Haas (the Pin), Noah Fleiss (Tugger), Matt O’Leary (the Brain), Emilie de Ravin (Emily), Noah Segan (Dode), Richard Roundtree (Assistant V.P. Trueman), Meagan Good (Kara), Brian White (Brad Bramish)

Director: Rian Johnson (also his first directed movie)

[cultfaction]

Preview- The Wind in the Willows (Bluray)

Preview- The Wind in the Willows (Bluray)

1983’s The Wind in the Willows – The Original Movie won a BAFTA for ‘Best Children’s Programme’ as well as an international Emmy Award and set the template for the subsequent hugely successful TV show which ran for 52 episodes on ITV from 1984 to 1988. Toad decides that motor cars are the only way to travel, however his driving skills don’t match up to his enthusiasm. Ratty, Mole and Badger come…

[roberthunter62]

Still Take You Home by Arctic Monkeys 

From Leeds to Sheffield. Yorkshire, Yorkshire. Born in Derby, lived in Nottinghamshire as an unaware three-year-old but then indoctrinated in South Yorkshire in my formative years. At a very young age I was taken to a Roses match at Headingly to see both Fred Trueman and Brian Statham bowl (the scorecard was knocking around for years - I just checked it on Cricinfo, Lancashire were all out for 176, the names on the scoresheet ring profound bells... Ken Higgs.... Jimmy Binks... Farook Engineer... Ray Illingworth). Dad says that he thought the match was at Bramall Lane, but turned up there to find it was in Leeds, but we went anyway! 1 June 1968, short of my sixth birthday, getting well indoctrinated. For years I was frustrated that I had been born outside of Yorkshire, which meant I could never open the batting for the county. 

With football, I was fortunate that Derby were successful when I was still at an impressionable age, winning the league title when I was nine. And then we went to live in Derbyshire, so the relationship was cemented. But the family ties to Sheffield were multiple and then set in stone when Moira moved there. So my mental geography is the green hills and valleys of the Derbyshire Dales and historical geography extends across to South Yorkshire, which is perhaps the least Yorkshire part of Yorkshire. Of course, the main thing about Yorkshire is the way they talk, but since I’ve discovered that there is an East Midlands dialect and accent continuum, I feel a bit more protective about it - it’s not nearly as violently identifiable as Black Country, Scouse or Geordie, but once you know the key factors, it’s every bit as loveable.

Arctic Monkeys - kids being raucous when I could have been their father (in terms of age, not for any actual genetic opportunities), a stunning album which has been one of my most played of all time and is still especially useful for the last hundred kilometres of long and late drives home from distant vineyards.