Brian Cosgrove Brian Cosgrove Brian Joseph Cosgrove OBE (born 6 April 1934) is an English BAFTA Award winning director, producer, animator, designer and sculptor best known as the creator of the animated children shows "Danger Mouse" and "Count Duckula". Born in North Manchester, Cosgrove studied at Manchester College of Art and Design, there he met his future work partner Mark Hall. Cosgrove started career by producing television graphics at Granada Television. He later on joined Stop Frame Productions, which Mark Hall founded, there he worked on many public service films, commercials for companies like TVTimes and directing and produced animated shows such
Animated series and Ferb", "Gravity Falls", "Rugrats", "Hey Arnold!", "The Fairly OddParents" and "Steven Universe." Animated series shown in movie theatres include the "Tom and Jerry" animated cartoon short films that appeared in movie theaters from 1940 to 1967. Direct-to-video animated series include most Japanese original video animations (OVAs). The first OVA series (and also the first overall OVA) was "Dallos" (1983). Almost all hentai (pornographic) anime series are released as OVAs. Animated web series first appeared in the late 1990s, with the first internet animated cartoon series, "The Goddamn George Liquor Program" (1997–1998), followed by other early series that included "WhirlGirl",