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Ralph Ayres was an English animator and director who worked in the animation industry for over 40 years. He was best known for his work on the classic British television series The Magic Roundabout and The Wombles. Ayres began his career in animation in the late 1940s, working as an animator on the popular British children's television series The Magic Roundabout. He went on to direct the series from 1965 to 1977, and was responsible for creating some of the show's most memorable characters, including Dougal the Dog, Dylan the Rabbit, and Ermintrude the Cow. In the 1970s, Ayres worked on the popular British children's television series The Wombles, which he directed from 1974 to 1975. He also directed the animated feature film The Wombles Movie in 1975. Ayres continued to work in animation until his retirement in the late 1980s. He died in 2002 at the age of 87.

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Occupation animation_department
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 28 November 1914
Birthday 28 November
Birthplace Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Date of death 4 April, 1979
Died Place England, UK
Nationality United Kingdom

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1979

Unfortunately when he died on the 4th April 1979 nothing was done to secure the collection for the national film archive.

1978

His last major known contribution to old style animation was in Watership Down (1978). Interestingly, some of the David Hand Animaland characters also appeared in comic strip form in the Daily Herald the predecessor to the SUN newspaper. All his working life Ralph Ayres collected bits and pieces of animation artwork from conceptual sketches and individual cells, to masters, negatives, film fragments, reels, etc. These ranged from early bits of Felix the cat, through Disney material, the Cookeen fairy and included copies of the Animaland films. Carefully recorded they were kept in the "Archive room" of his home. He had always hoped these pieces of what he believed was an important artform would be preserved for posterity.

1914

Ralph Ayres, one of the key figures of British animation in the post-war era. He was born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England on the 28th November 1914. He learned to draw at the Junior Technical College but was self-taught as an amateur artist. He was apprenticed to a local firm Emanuel Spence as a plumber, after which he went south for work. After the 2nd World War he joined Walt Disney's former director David Hand at Gaumont British Animation in Cookham on Thames,a part of J Arthur Rank organisation and helped in the production of the Animaland series of cartoons. These featured various animal characters such as Ginger Nutt, Corney Crow, Dusty Mole etc. Ralph was director of the second unit of the production team. Ralph was invited to join the Disney Organisation in the USA, but his wife Marjorie Porrit prevailed upon him not to go so he joined John Halas at Halas and Batchelor working on cartoon features and shorts for cinema. He next went freelance producing animation sequences for product advertising in Cinemas, and also for television commercials, working from his studio in Cookham Dean. He continued to do contract work for mainstream cinema especially main title sequences most of which were uncredited.

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