The Bob Godfrey thread
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Quantick Soul Orchestra
Posted 01 January 2011 - 07:43 PM
Is this the bit where some pedantic wanker comes along and says "Actually the show was just called 'Roobarb'"?
(This probably is the most interesting pick on this year's 50, although my generation probably remembers him for from "Henry's Cat". My first ever bank account for putting my pocket money in as a nipper came with a Henry's Cat piggy bank)
(This probably is the most interesting pick on this year's 50, although my generation probably remembers him for from "Henry's Cat". My first ever bank account for putting my pocket money in as a nipper came with a Henry's Cat piggy bank)
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow
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Manx Minx
Posted 02 January 2011 - 08:07 PM
He's on my DDP. I know he has mobility problems and I did hear he has some breathing problems too.
Alternative 50 in no particular order
1.Nelson Mandela 2.Margaret Thatcher 3. Jeremy Thorpe 4. Bill Pertwee 5. John Freeman 6.Guenther Grass 7. Oswald Morris 8. Glynis Johns 9. Zizi Jeanmaire 10. April Ashley
11. Allan Arbus 12. Siegfried Lenz 13. Helmut Kohl 14.Walter Scheel 15.Hywel Bennet 16.Clive James 17. Tamara Press 18.Dave Swarbrick 19. Gretel Bergmann 20. Paul Danquah
21. Fenella Fielding 22. Peter Sallis 23. Dannie Abse 24.Ronnie Biggs 25. Jovanka Broz 26. Bernie Nolan 27. Ron Moody 28. Vivian Pickles 29. Dave Davies 30. Nexhmije Hoxha
31. Doris Lessing 32. Henry Morgenthaler 33. Al Molinaro 34.Gil Taylor 35. Denis Healey 36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37. George Blake 38. Brian Cant 39. Fidel Castro 40. Kirk Douglas
41. Aretha Franklin 42.Annette Funicello 43.Bob Godfrey 44. Rev Billy Graham 45.Wojiech Jaruzelski 46.Irving Kanarek 47.Hiroo Onoda 48. Reg Pressley 49. Ariel Sharon 50. Duncan Norvelle.
"Wehat shall we do with the wisswass tdonkleys?" "Throw them in the turwetts til they've diwed."
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1.Nelson Mandela 2.
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21. Fenella Fielding 22. Peter Sallis 23. Dannie Abse 24.Ronnie Biggs 25. Jovanka Broz 26. Bernie Nolan 27. Ron Moody 28. Vivian Pickles 29. Dave Davies 30. Nexhmije Hoxha
31. Doris Lessing 32. Henry Morgenthaler 33. Al Molinaro 34.Gil Taylor 35. Denis Healey 36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37. George Blake 38. Brian Cant 39. Fidel Castro 40. Kirk Douglas
41. Aretha Franklin 42.
"Wehat shall we do with the wisswass tdonkleys?" "Throw them in the turwetts til they've diwed."
Vote Karen Carpenter as most significant celebrity death of 1983
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Posted 02 January 2011 - 11:18 PM
Handrejka, on Jan 2 2011, 08:07 PM, said:
He's on my DDP. I know he has mobility problems and I did hear he has some breathing problems too.
Don't argue with fools. They drag you to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Posted 14 January 2011 - 11:15 PM
Spade_Cooley, on Jan 1 2011, 07:43 PM, said:
Is this the bit where some pedantic wanker comes along and says "Actually the show was just called 'Roobarb'"?
(This probably is the most interesting pick on this year's 50, although my generation probably remembers him for from "Henry's Cat". My first ever bank account for putting my pocket money in as a nipper came with a Henry's Cat piggy bank)
(This probably is the most interesting pick on this year's 50, although my generation probably remembers him for from "Henry's Cat". My first ever bank account for putting my pocket money in as a nipper came with a Henry's Cat piggy bank)
awww I loved Henry's Cat!
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Twunt Master
Posted 01 January 2012 - 07:58 PM
sympathyforthedevil, on 01 January 2012 - 04:43 PM, said:
Not really sure why he is on the list.
He's old and for many of us on here, he's an iconic person.
I think in the next year or two we should start seeing Michael Bond making an entrance on the list.
A good line never dies
It just smells funny
DDP 2012 - Joint 47th 8/20
DDP 2013 4/20
Ronnie Biggs, George H.W. Bush, Dora Bryan, Henry Cecil,
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Twunt Master
Posted 22 February 2013 - 05:08 PM
Sad news and so soon after Richard Briers too. I remember seeing a short documentary on Godfrey and how he sought to emulate Briers' style of narration from Roobarb when he narrated Henry's Cat.
A good line never dies
It just smells funny
DDP 2012 - Joint 47th 8/20
DDP 2013 4/20
Ronnie Biggs, George H.W. Bush, Dora Bryan, Henry Cecil,
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Executioner
Posted 22 February 2013 - 05:17 PM
Even though I wasn't familiar with his work (Roobarb was never in the US to my knowledge) it's always a shame to hear of an animator's death
DDP 20: Thomas Jefferson Survives: Bashar al-Assad, Stefano Borgonovo, Henry Cecil, Hugo Chavez 
, Van Cliburn, Katherine Crowe, Bonnie Franklin, Werner Franz, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Superstar Billy Graham, Damon Harris, Clive James, Sandy Jardine, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Karen Muir, John Nkomo, Bernie Nolan, Tony Sheridan, Scott Thorson, Michael Winner
DDP Theme Team: It's Time to Dim the Lights... (Muppet Show guest stars): Charles Aznavour, Kaye Ballard, Harry Belafonte, Carol Burnett, Carol Channing, Petula Clark, Roy Clark, Bruce Forsyth, Florence Henderson, Cleo Laine, Cloris Leachman, Hal Linden, Loretta Lynn, Liza Minnelli, Roger Moore, Rita Moreno, Jaye P. Morgan, Jim Nabors, Jean Stapleton, Jonathan Winters
Personal 50:Hugo Chavez, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nelson Mandela, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Henry Cecil, Clive James, Michael Winner, Van Cliburn, Bonnie Franklin, Jack Pardee, Jalal Talabani, Vo Nguyen Giap, Luise Rainer, George H.W. Bush, Gough Whitlam, Billy Graham, Superstar Billy Graham, Fidel Castro, Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Havilland, Patty Andrews, Richard Attenborough, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Eli Wallach, Margaret Thatcher, Bashar al-Assad, Abigail van Buren, Gunter Grass, Nancy Reagan, George Jones, King Abdullah, Bob Dole, Helmut Kohl, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Glynis Johns, Ingvar Kamprad, Muhammad Ali, Ferdie Pacheco, Lindsay Lohan, Jerry Lewis, Doris Day, Charles Aznavour, Carol Channing, June Foray, Sid Caesar, Eva Marie Saint, Conrad Bain, Robert Mugabe, Mickey Rooney, Abe Vigoda (personal Dunn)
, DDP Theme Team: It's Time to Dim the Lights... (Muppet Show guest stars): Charles Aznavour, Kaye Ballard, Harry Belafonte, Carol Burnett, Carol Channing
, Petula Clark, Roy Clark, Bruce Forsyth, Florence Henderson, Cleo Laine, Cloris Leachman, Hal Linden, Loretta Lynn, Liza Minnelli, Roger Moore, Rita Moreno, Jaye P. Morgan, Jim Nabors, Jean Stapleton, Personal 50:
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Pun Plunderer
Posted 22 February 2013 - 05:39 PM
Don't forget Noah and Nellie either.
"All aboard the Skylark!"
"All aboard the Skylark!"
Derby Dead Pool showrunner...
"We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature
Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell
It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of press men
Bent on getting hung and buried
And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt
Who sucks you while you're sleeping
It's the theatre of financiers
Count them, fifty 'round a table
White and dressed to kill."
David Bowie - We Are The Dead (1974)
"We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature
Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell
It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of press men
Bent on getting hung and buried
And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt
Who sucks you while you're sleeping
It's the theatre of financiers
Count them, fifty 'round a table
White and dressed to kill."
David Bowie - We Are The Dead (1974)
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LFN Hunter
Posted 22 February 2013 - 09:07 PM
Why is the front page being updated with his death? He's not on the list this year.
Shadow List 2013.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
Hugo Chavez, Brian Shivers, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Michael Winner, Jo Bryant, Sir Henry Cecil, Anne Williams, Tariq Aziz, Ronnie Biggs, Gough Whitlam, Saif al-Islam, John Nkomo, Nelson Mandela, George H. W. Bush, John Derbyshire, Chopper Read, Leslie Phillips, Robert Mugabe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Margaret Thatcher, Hosni Mubarak, Clive James, Gabriel G. Marquez, Jeremy Thorpe, Damon Harris, Christopher Lee, Ian Paisley, Dora Bryan, John Bardon, Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Talabani, Mikail Kalashnikov, Rochus Misch, Fidel Castro, Denis Healy, Robert G. Edwards, Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, Stephen Hawking, Jacques Chirac, Bashar al-Assad, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Bonnie Franklin, Ariel Sharon, Princess Lilian, Grand Duke Jean, Queen Fabiola, Bhumibol Abdulyadej, Fred Phelps
2009: 13/50, 2010: 10/50, 2011: 9/50, 2012: 15/50, 2013:10/50 Winner of the 2010 Dustpool.
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Lord
Posted 22 February 2013 - 11:33 PM
Here's an old BBC programme about Bob Godfrey. The OP's suggestion is that it dates from the early 70s, which seems about right.
Part 2
Part 2
2013 DDP Team: John Bardon; Dora Bryan; Emile Ford; John Glenn; Eldon Griffiths; Bernard Haitink; Gerald Harper; Patricia Knatchbull; Francis Matthews; Sheila Mercier; Les Munro; Pete Murray; Peter O'Toole; I. M. Pei; Nosher Powell; Dudley Simpson; Mike Stoller; Margaret Thatcher(Joker); Peter Wyngarde; Jimmy Young.
2013 DDP Theme Team 1: Ronald Atkins, Ron Braunstein, Ron Brown, Ronald Chesney, Ronald Coase, Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Ronnie Dawson, Ronald Baron Fearn, Ron Flowers, Ronnie Gilbert, Ronald Harwood, Ronald Hines, Ron Isley, Ronnie Masterson, Ronnie Moore, Ronald Pellar, Ronnie Ronalde, Ron Smith, Ronald Stevenson, Ron Suart (Joker)
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Deathrace 2013 Team: Glen Campbell, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz (Joker), Fidel Castro, Stan Lee, Helmut Schmidt, Nelson Mandela, Jerry Lewis, Sidney Poitier, Maximilian Schell, Fats Domino, BB King,Ray Harryhausen, Pierre Cardin, Jiroemon Kimura .
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2013 DDP Theme Team 1: Ronald Atkins, Ron Braunstein, Ron Brown, Ronald Chesney, Ronald Coase, Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Ronnie Dawson, Ronald Baron Fearn, Ron Flowers, Ronnie Gilbert, Ronald Harwood, Ronald Hines, Ron Isley, Ronnie Masterson, Ronnie Moore, Ronald Pellar, Ronnie Ronalde, Ron Smith, Ronald Stevenson, Ron Suart (Joker)
2013 DDP Theme Team 2: Roger Alton, Roger Angell, Sir Roger Bannister, Roger Cook, Roger Corman, Roger Daltrey,
Deathrace 2013 Team: Glen Campbell, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz (Joker), Fidel Castro, Stan Lee, Helmut Schmidt, Nelson Mandela, Jerry Lewis, Sidney Poitier, Maximilian Schell, Fats Domino, BB King,
2013 Hartlepool Deadlypool Team: George HW Bush, Jiroemon Kimura, Carl Reiner, Vera Lynn, Kirk Douglas,
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