Roland Frederick Godfrey MBE (27 May 1921 – 21 February 2013) was an English
animator whose career spanned more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series
Roobarb (1974–75),
Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1976-77) and
Henry's Cat (1983–95) 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 tongue-in-cheek biography of
Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Further Academy Awards nominations received were for
Kama Sutra Rides Again (1971),
Dream Doll (1980), with
Zlatko Grgic, and
Small Talk (1994).