The creator of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, Britt Allcroft, has died at 81-years-old. Allcroft was best known as a producer for several shows, including Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends after ...

Thomas the Tank Engine TV series creator Britt Allcroft dies at 81 The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son.

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer and writer who helped to develop “Thomas & Friends” based on “The Railway Series” books and its characters including Thomas the Tank Engine ...

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Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series, died at 81, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced on X. Allcroft’s death was announced by filmmaker Brannon Carty.

The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends from 1984 until 2021. Allcroft’s family remembered her as an “adoring mother and wife and visionary producer” in an emotional statement.

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children's television series Thomas & Friends, has passed away at the age of 81.. The Context. Allcroft, from Worthing, England, produced several shows ...

Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ran for 24 series until January 2021 with a total of 584 episodes. Allcroft stepped down as executive producer in the early 2000s.

Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive first conceived in a series of children’s books in the 1940s by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry, to ...

Britt Allcroft, Creator of TV’s ‘Thomas the Tank Engine,’ Dies at 81 She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr ...