- His voice became well-known in Britain through his Esso Blue commercials.
- He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of The British Empire) in 1986 for his services to the Film Industry in Australia.
- His cousin is writer A.C.H. Smith.
- Worked as a graphic artist in the 1930's, before joining the GB Animation Unit, financed by the Rank Organisation.
- Served with the Royal Marines during World War II and took part in the D-Day landings in Normandy.
- Formed Biographic in 1954, which turned out hundreds of advertising shorts fort television and cinema. This enabled him to finance his setting up of Bob Godfrey Productions in 1964.
- He started out as a graphic artist in advertising, before joining the innovative Larkin Studio in the early 1950s, where he made his earliest cartoons.
- It would take 3 weeks for he and his team to painstakingly create each of their 5-minutes animations, drawing and colouring every still by hand.
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