Raymond Briggs

Actor, Escritor, Productor

18 de enero de 1934 — 9 de agosto de 2022 (88 años)
Raymond Redvers Briggs, CBE (18 January 1934 - 9 August 2022) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author who achieved critical and popular success among adults and children. He is best known in Britain for his story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.

Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named Father Christmas (1973) one of the top-ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.

For his contribution as a children's illustrator Briggs was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984.

Conocido por

  • The Snowman
    The Snowman1982
  • Cuando el viento sopla
    Cuando el viento sopla1986
  • Ethel y Ernest
    Ethel y Ernest2016
  • Papá Noel se va de vacaciones
    Papá Noel se va de vacaciones1991
  • El muñeco de nieve y el perro de nieve
    El muñeco de nieve y el perro de nieve2012
  • The Bear
    The Bear1998
  • Fungus el duende
    Fungus el duende3 episodes
  • Fungus the Bogeyman (2015)
    Fungus the Bogeyman (2015)3 episodes
  • Ivor the Invisible
    Ivor the Invisible2001

Filmography

2016
Ethel & Ernest · as Raymond Briggs (voice)
1982
The Snowman · as Older James / Narrator (uncredited)

2004
2001
1991
Father Christmas · as Novel
1986
When the Wind Blows · as Screenplay

2016
Ethel & Ernest · as Executive Producer

2022
1977
Everyman · as Self
1967
Omnibus (1967) · as Self

2016
Ethel & Ernest · as Book
2015
2012
1998
The Bear · as Book
1982
The Snowman · as Book
1965
Jackanory · as Book