Worked as a graphic artist in the 1930's, before joining the GB Animation Unit, financed by the Rank Organisation.
Served with the Royal Marines during World War II and took part in the D-Day landings in Normandy.
Formed Biographic in 1954, which turned out hundreds of advertising shorts fort television and cinema. This enabled him to finance his setting up of Bob Godfrey Productions in 1964.
He started out as a graphic artist in advertising, before joining the innovative Larkin Studio in the early 1950s, where he made his earliest cartoons.
It would take 3 weeks for he and his team to painstakingly create each of their 5-minutes animations, drawing and colouring every still by hand.