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
ALF (TV series) 2" DVD as well as the cartoon-specific releases "ALF Animated Adventures – 20,000 Years in Driving School and Other Stories" and "ALF and The Beanstalk and Other Classic Fairy Tales". The animated version of ALF also appeared in "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue". An "ALF" comic book was published by Marvel Comics under their Star Comics imprint, a line that featured licensed characters such as "Heathcliff", "Thundercats", "Flintstone Kids", "Muppet Babies", "Count Duckula", and other famous characters. The "ALF" comic began in 1987 and ran for four years, totaling 50 issues and several specials. For virtually the entire series' run,