Ivor Wood

Ivor Sydney Wood (4 May 1932 – 14 October 2004) was a British-French<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1">The Guardian</ref><ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> animator, director, producer and writer. He was known for his work on children's television series.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Born in Leeds to an English father and a French mother, his family moved to the mountains near Lyon, France, after the Second World War, where he was educated.<ref name=":2" /><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref> He studied fine art in Paris, and later worked in an advertising agency in Paris, where he met Serge Danot.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> Together they made the acclaimed French series Le Manège enchanté (known in English as The Magic Roundabout), with Wood as the animator.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>

Following the success of The Magic Roundabout in the UK, Wood partnered with the London-based animation company FilmFair.<ref name=":0" /> Wood became both animator and director for a number of FilmFair's animated children's programmes, starting with The Herbs in 1968. During the 1970s, he animated and directed Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings, Hattytown Tales, The Adventures of Parsley, The Wombles, and Paddington.<ref name=":0" />

Woodland Animations Limited

Woodland Animations Ltd. was founded by Ivor Wood and his wife Josiane, specifically to produce stop-motion animated series for the BBC. The company produced a number of programmes, the earliest and most popular of which was Postman Pat.

Content

Title	Year(s)	Notes	Format
Postman Pat	1981, 1996		Stop Motion
Gran	1983		Stop Motion
Bertha	1985–1986		Stop Motion
Charlie Chalk	1988–1989		Stop Motion
Postman Pat's ABC Story	1990	Co-produced with Abbey Broadcast Communications	Traditional
Postman Pat's 123 Story	1990	Co-produced with Abbey Broadcast Communications	Traditional
Read Along with Postman Pat	1994	Co-produced with Abbey Broadcast Communications	Traditional

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