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Rebecca Banatvala

Rebecca Banatvala is British actress known for 'Love, Death and Robots' (2019) and 'Fez: The Royal Scent' (2019). She graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a degree in Classical Acting in 2016. Rebecca also has a degree in French and Arabic from the University of Oxford. Since graduating Rebecca has quickly become recognised for her strong screen talent. Having already received indie-festival award nominations for Best Actress for her role in 'Ruxi: A Road to Slavery' and won best actress for her role in 'Mad About You'. Rebecca has also worked as a guest journalist for the Independent writing on the Arab Spring.

Sami Amber

Sami Amber is a young British actor born in North London, England. Known for, Love Death And Robots (2022) Dalgliesh (2022) Spencer (2022) Ted Lasso (2022)

Brian Croucher

Croucher has appeared in a number of science fiction programmes, including being the second actor to portray Travis in Blake's 7. He played Borg in the Doctor Who story The Robots of Death. He also appeared in the Doctor Who spin-off Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans. Earlier, in 1973, he played a key protagonist in the children's adventure series The Jensen Code. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Croucher, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Stuart Allan

Cast · Known for Rise of the Guardians

Stuart Allan is an American actor who lives in Los Angeles, California and is known for his work as Robin/Damian Wayne with Warner Bros and DC Comics (7 films to date) and as Russell Clay on Cartoon Network's Transformers: Robots in Disguise (4 seasons) and was originally raised in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C. His passion for the performing arts began at age five in community theatre and school. Stuart now enjoys working in Hollywood on film, TV, and voiceover productions (including animations and radio/TV broadcasting).

Miles Fothergill

Miles Fothergill (born 25 June 1948) is a British actor, best known for his roles in science fiction television. He played SV7 in the Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death and also appeared in Blake's 7 episode "The Web". Also for BBC Television he appeared in The Olympian Way (Pebble Mill, 1981) and the Francis Durbridge series Breakaway (1980).[1] On stage he replaced Jeremy Irons as Judas in the original production of Godspell at the Wyndhams Theatre, London and played Rocky in the late-1970s in The Rocky Horror Show during its original run at the Kings Road Theatre in Chelsea. He was chosen to be the first male presenter and newsreader for Satellite Television in the mid-1980s, which was the forerunner to Sky TV. After many years in the City as a Media Trainer, he now lives in Spain.

Vanessa Lemonides

Vanessa Lemonides is a Russian-American voice actress, singer and artist, known for providing her voice in cartoon films like Robots, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Diego's Moonlight Rescue, and Rio 2. She also appeared in TV shows like Diego's Moonlight Rescue, Team Umizoomi, Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego! Go!.

Richard Davies

Cast · Known for The Wednesday Play

Dennis Wilfred Davies, known professionally as Richard Davies (25 January 1926 – 8 October 2015), was a Welsh actor.He was probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr. Price in the popular LWT situation comedy Please Sir! He used a broad Welsh accent for much of his work, but had used other accents to play a wide range of characters, in addition to several Welsh stereotypes Davies was born in Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the son of a railway guard. He played Idris Hopkins in Coronation Street between 1974 and 1975, and appeared in several science-fiction series, among them Robert's Robots, Out of the Unknown, and a well-received performance as Burton in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen. He played Mr. White in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Kipper and the Corpse" and also appeared in Yes Minister, Wyatt's Watchdogs, May to December, Whoops Apocalypse, 2point4 Children and One Foot in the Grave. In 1970, he appeared in an episode of Two in Clover as Victor Spinetti's character's brother when Spinetti was unavailable. His other main role was in the comedy series Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt where he played Clive. Davies had a recurring role as Jim Sloan in Z-Cars between 1962 and 1965, returning to the series playing different characters in 1968 and in its spin-off Softly, Softly. He also appeared in Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney and Van der Valk. He impersonated Clive Jenkins in a spoof edition of Question Time in a sketch on Not the Nine O'Clock News. He appeared in the Please Sir! spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang. In 1951, he made an uncredited appearance in the Ealing Studios comedy The Lavender Hill Mob. He had appeared in films such as Zulu (1964), the film adaptation of Please Sir! (1971), and Under Milk Wood (1972). In 1988, he played the schoolteacher in Queen Sacrifice. He died on 8 October 2015 at the age of 89, survived by his wife and two children, and a son from his first marriage after a battle against Alzheimer's disease.

Jon Vitti

Writer · Known for Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Angry Birds Movie

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jon Vitti is an American writer best known for his work on the television series The Simpsons. He has also written for the King of the Hill and The Critic series, and has served as a consultant for several animated movies, including Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). He is one of the eleven writers of The Simpsons Movie and also responsible for the film adaptation of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Vitti is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote for and was president with Mike Reiss of the Harvard Lampoon. He was also very close with Conan O'Brien while at Harvard. Prior to joining The Simpsons, he had a brief stint with Saturday Night Live. He described his experiences on a DVD commentary as "a very unhappy year". After leaving The Simpsons' writing staff in its fourth season, Vitti wrote for the HBO series The Larry Sanders Show. He is now working on The Office in the seventh season and has written the episode, Viewing Party. He is the second most prolific writer for The Simpsons; his 25 episodes place him after John Swartzwelder, who wrote 59 episodes. Vitti has also used the pseudonym Penny Wise. Vitti used the pseudonym for episodes "Another Simpsons Clip Show" and "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show as expressed on Simpsons DVD commentaries (though his name was credited for writing the first Simpsons clip show "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"). On the season four Simpsons episode "The Front," Jon Vitti is caricatured as a Harvard graduate who gets fired from I&S Studios for penning mediocre episodes and gets hit on the head with a name plate by his boss, Roger Meyers. His wife, Ann, is the sister of fellow The Simpsons writer George Meyer (who was also a Saturday Night Live writer-turned-Simpsons writer who did not like working on SNL). He is a distant cousin of Los Angeles Lakers trainer Gary Vitti, award-winning author Jim Vitti, and actor Michael Dante (the stage name of Ralph Vitti). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Vitti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Chris Wedge

Cast · Executive Producer · Known for Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Robots

John Christian Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film Tron (1982), co-founding the now defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios, and directing the short film Bunny (1998) and the feature films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). Wedge has received two Academy Awards nominations: one for Bunny, for which he won Best Animated Short; and Ice Age, nominated for Best Animated Feature. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise (2002–2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Wedge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Kristy Wu

Kristy Wu (born October 11, 1982) is an American actress. On television, she starred in Flight 29 Down (2005 - 2007) and had recurring roles in the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2003), the third season of The Legend of Korra (2014), and the first two seasons of Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 - 2016). Her film appearances include Cry Wolf (2005), Return to Halloweentown (2006), and End of Watch (2012).

Samantha Ashley

Samantha Ashley Gonzalez, born May 22, 1997, made waves with her role as Vanessa in CW's “Roswell, New Mexico.” From Jersey City, she worked alongside Jeanine Mason and Nathan Parsons in the alien-themed series directed by Lance Anderson. Before this, she appeared in short films and assisted in productions like “Rosary” and “Where the Land Meets the Sky.” Samantha can be seen in the movies: “Soulmates,” “The Kiss List,” “Seven Cemeteries,” and “Robots.” Samantha can be seen in the TV Shows: “Chicago Fire,” "S.W.A.T." and "The Curse."

Tim Miller

Director · Executive Producer · Known for Deadpool, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Timothy Miller (born October 10, 1964) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, and visual effects artist. He is best known for directing the films Deadpool (2016) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). He is also the creator of the animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots (2019–present), for which he has won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program. Miller is the co-founder of the visual effects company Blur Studio. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film as co-story writer and executive producer of the short animated film Gopher Broke (2004). He also designed the title sequences of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013). Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Miller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Teddy Newton

Cast · Known for The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL·E

Teddy Newton is an artist at Pixar Animation Studios. He has worked as a storyboard artist for 2 Stupid Dogs, The Iron Giant, and Dexter's Laboratory. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts in its world-renowned Character Animation program. At Pixar, he also co-wrote the short film Jack-Jack Attack and did the voices of the newsreel narrator in The Incredibles, Skinner's lawyer in Ratatouille, the 'Steward' robots in Wall-E, a television commercial salesman in Up, and Chatter Telephone in Toy Story 3. He made his directorial debut with the Pixar short film Day & Night. Description above from the Wikipedia article Teddy Newton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .

Bill Watterson

Watterson’s work has been called “wildly inventive” (Hollywood Reporter), “dazzlingly original” (Empire), and “fresh and inventive” (Rotten Tomatoes). He is an ex-rocker whose feature film directorial debut, the practical effects-driven fantasy Dave Made A Maze, won the Audience Award at its World Premiere at Slamdance. The film has gone on to win over 20 Audience and Jury Prizes, a Saturn Award, is distributed in over 40 countries, and is Certified Fresh. Known for his tactile world-building and his ability to orchestrate unique tonal mash-ups, he has directed music videos, commercials, children’s content, and lots of cool stuff you can’t watch because NDA’s. He is currently working with Village Roadshow and The Jim Henson Company on an original project and yes, it has monsters and puppets and robots and stuff.

Peter Grimwade

Peter Grimwade (8 June 1942 – 15 May 1990) was a British television director and screenwriter, known for his work as a director and writer of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who in the 1980s. After joining the BBC in the late 1960s, Grimwade first worked on Doctor Who as a production assistant on Jon Pertwee's first serial, Spearhead from Space (1970). He occupied this position on a further five serials. He got his first chance to direct when he was asked to film some model shots for the serial The Robots of Death (1977). George Gallaccio, producer of The Omega Factor (1979), gave Grimwade his full directorial debut on the episode "Out of Body, Out of Mind" in the series. Grimwade was also around this time a production assistant on the BBC's All Creatures Great and Small (1978) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979). After directing the Doctor Who serial Full Circle (1980) from John Nathan-Turner's first season as producer, Grimwade was given the task of directing Tom Baker's final serial, Logopolis (1981). When Peter Davison became the Doctor, Grimwade first directed him in the serial Kinda (1982) and then directed Earthshock, featuring the return of the Cybermen after seven years and the death of the Doctor's companion Adric. Grimwade had also written two serials, Time-Flight (1982) and Mawdryn Undead (1983), and had been asked to write Davison's penultimate story, which became Planet of Fire (1984). Because the story's requirements were in constant flux, mainly due to uncertainty over the filming location and cast changes, he eventually became frustrated and allowed script editor Eric Saward to finish the serial.

Michael E. Briant

Director · Known for Doctor Who

Michael Edwin Briant (born 14 February 1942) is a retired English television director and author, best known for his work as a director for BBC television drama in the 1970s and 1980s. At the age of 21 Briant joined the BBC as an assistant floor manager in the drama department and a year later became a production assistant. In 1966, he took a Directors Course. Sometimes credited as just Michael Briant, he subsequently directed series such as Z-Cars and Doctor Who, directing Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker in a total of six serials: Colony in Space (1971), The Sea Devils (1972), The Green Death (1973), Death to the Daleks (1974), Revenge of the Cybermen (1975) and The Robots of Death (1977). He went on to direct several episodes from the first season of Blake's 7 in 1978, and Secret Army between 1978 and 1979. He later directed four of the six episodes of its sequel, Kessler, and the thriller series Blood Money, in which he cast many of the actors from Secret Army.

Carlos Saldanha

Director · Executive Producer · Known for 100 Days, Ice Age: Collision Course, Ice Age: Continental Drift

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Carlos Saldanha (born July 20, 1968) is a Brazilian director of animated films. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). Saldanha was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He left his hometown in 1991 to follow his artistic instinct and passion for animation. With a background in computer science and a natural artistic sensibility, he found New York City the perfect locale to merge these skills and become an animator. He attended the MFA program at New York's School of Visual Arts, where he graduated with honors in 1993, after completing two animated shorts, The Adventures of Korky, the Corkscrew (1992) and Time For Love (1993). The shorts have been screened at animation festivals around the world. At SVA, Saldanha met Chris Wedge, one of the cofounders of Blue Sky Studios, who invited him to join their growing team of artists. He also worked as animator on Wedge's short film Bunny. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlos Saldanha, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

John Donkin

Producer · Known for Ice Age: Continental Drift, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Rio

John Donkin received an Academy Award nomination in 2003 as producer of Gone Nutty, an animated short created at Blue Sky Studios featuring the popular character Scrat from the “Ice Age” films. Donkin joined Blue Sky Studios in 1998 as a technical and administrative director. One of his first projects was helping to complete the Oscar-winning short film Bunny. He developed the production line for Blue Sky's first feature-length animated film project, Ice Age, before becoming an associate producer on the film. Donkin went on to produce several other Blue Sky Studios projects, including Rio and Rio 2, which became a globally successful franchise, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which grossed over $887 million worldwide, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Robots, and the Oscar-nominated short Blue Sky No Time for Nuts. Donkin began his career in computer animation in 1983, where he studied with the world-renowned CGRG (Computer Graphics Research Group) at Ohio State University. He went on to become a senior animator at the pioneering computer graphics company Cranston/Csuri Productions.

Laura Waddell

Laura Waddell is a British actress and qualified PADI scuba diver. She is the niece of Olivier Award winning Actress Jenny Galloway. Her extensive credits include Disney's 'Saving Mr. Banks' (2013), 'Crimson Peak' (2015), and 'The Love Witch' (2016). Waddell is also an acclaimed voice actress, having accomplished voice over and performance capture work for the Netflix series 'Love, Death and Robots', Zack Snyder's 'Justice League' and numerous video game titles.

Duane Capizzi

Writer · Known for Transformers: Prime

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Duane Capizzi is an Italian-American writer and television producer. He is known for his extensive work in animated television series, including the Emmy Award-winning "Transformers: Prime" for which he was Co-Executive Producer and Head Writer, and co-developed its follow-up "Transformers: Robots in Disguise". For Warner Bros. Animation, he was the writer and producer of the animated series "The Batman" as well as its spin-off feature, "The Batman vs. Dracula". He wrote the first DC Universe animated feature, "Superman: Doomsday" (based on "The Death of Superman" saga, and directed by Bruce Timm). Other animated series producing/writing credits include "Jackie Chan Adventures", "Big Guy" and "Rusty the Boy Robot", "Men in Black: The Series", and series which he helped develop on the CG animated "Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles" for Sony Pictures Television. He wrote and story edited for two animated spin-offs of Jim Carrey films: "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "The Mask". He also wrote and story edited for several Disney Afternoon TV series including "Darkwing Duck", "Aladdin", "TaleSpin" and "Bonkers". He began his career in animation writing scripts for "Robotech II: The Sentinels" for Harmony Gold. The series was never produced, but led to writing and story editing on "ALF: The Animated Series". From 2019 to 2021, Capizzi served as showrunner for the animated TV series adaptation of Carmen Sandiego. Description above from the Wikipedia article Duane Capizzi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Peter de Sève

Cast · Known for Ice Age: The Meltdown

Peter de Sève (born 1958) is an American artist who has worked in the illustration and animation fields. He has drawn many covers for the magazine The New Yorker. As a character designer, he worked on the characters of A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Robots, the Ice Age franchise, and on the main animal character E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) in the 2011 Easter-themed comedy film Hop. de Sève designed the characters for Arthur Christmas, for which he was nominated for Annie Award. He received the National Cartoonists Society Magazine Illustration Award for 2000. He is also a recipient of the Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators, a Clio Award for a Nike television commercial, and a Visual Effects Society Award nomination for Outstanding Animated Character Design for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. de Sève won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Design for his work on the Sesame Street segment Abby Cadabby's Flying Fairy School. He is part of the Directors Collective Hornet Incorporated company. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter de Sève, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Grant Imahara

Cast · Known for MythBusters

Grant Masaru Imahara was an American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor. He is best known for his work on the television series MythBusters, on which he designed and built numerous robots and specialized in operating computers and electronics to test myths. Imahara began his career at Lucasfilm, where he worked in the THX division as an engineer and in the Industrial Light & Magic division in visual effects. His work is featured in films from franchises such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, and Terminator. His first foray into television was on the robot combat series BattleBots, for which he designed and competed with his robot Deadblow and later returned as a judge. In 2005, Imahara joined the cast of Mythbusters as a member of the Build Team, appearing in over 200 episodes of the series until his departure in 2014. He starred in the 2016 Netflix series White Rabbit Project alongside his MythBusters co-stars Kari Byron and Tory Belleci. This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.

Hayley McLaughlin

Hayley McLaughlin, born Hayley Melissa McLaughlin, is a Scottish actress. Hayley was born in Glasgow, Scotland and grew up in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland. She holds Dual UK/ US Citizenship. Hayley is known for playing Jennifer in David Fincher's Emmy Award winning Love, Death & Robots, and Rebecca in Robert Zemeckis' hit drama series Project Blue Book. She is also known for her role "Ariel", the magical Shakespearean fairy, in TNT's And the Happily Ever Afters. In 2019, Hayley starred alongside Teri Polo and Dylan Walsh in the Netflix movie Deadly Switch.

William Joyce

Executive Producer · Producer · Known for Rise of the Guardians, Robots

William Edward Joyce (born December 11, 1959) is an American writer, illustrator, and filmmaker. He has achieved worldwide recognition as an author, artist and pioneer in the digital and animation industry. He has written and illustrated over 50 children’s books and novels which have been translated into over 40 languages. Joyce began his film career as a concept artist for Toy Story (1995), and has since been active in both animation and live-action. He subsequently landed credits on films including A Bug's Life (1998) and Robots (2005). His book A Day with Wilbur Robinson was adapted into the Disney film Meet the Robinsons (2007), with which he had direct involvement. Among his many awards, Joyce has won six Emmys, three Annies, and an Academy award, the last being for his short film The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011). Joyce was named by Newsweek magazine as “one of the 100 people to watch in the new millennium. His feature films, all based on his books, include Epic, Rise of the Guardians, Robots, and Meet the Robinsons. His television series include the animated Rolie Polie Olie, for which he was creator and showrunner. He has also painted numerous covers for the New Yorker Magazine. His company, Howdybot Studios, is focused on Joyce's stories in a variety of mediums and media. Joyce's short film Mr. Spam Gets a New Hat (2022) has won awards at a number of film festivals in the U.S. He is also in pre-production on an animated version of The Great Gatsby. Both projects are in collaboration with DNEG Animation. In 2022, Joyce's novel Ollie's Odyssey was adapted into a Netflix series titled Lost Ollie. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Joyce, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.