Brian Trueman: Hazard Mouse author dies aged 92 | Ents & Arts Information

Brian Trueman, the British author behind cartoons together with Hazard Mouse and Depend Duckula, has died aged 92, his son has stated.

Ben Trueman wrote on the X social media platform: “Some unhappy information. My father, Brian Trueman, has died.

“92 years of blissful life. A profession in tv and radio that included Youngsters’s Hour, Clitheroe Child, Scene at 6.30, Granada Reviews, Brass Tacks, Display Take a look at.”

He added his dad, who he described as “intelligent, humorous, resilient, an absolute gentleman”, perhaps “greatest referred to as the author of and actor in Hazard Mouse, Depend Duckula, Jamie and the Magic Torch, Cockleshell Bay, Chorlton and the Wheelies.”

Of these exhibits, Hazard Mouse, whose important characters have been voiced by Solely Fools and Horses star David Jason and Carry On star Terry Scott, was maybe probably the most well-known.

Jason performed the fearless hero, self-titled the “world’s best undercover agent”, whereas Scott starred as his hapless sidekick, Penfold.

Trueman contributed to 79 episodes of the unique Hazard Mouse collection, in response to his IMDb web page.

The unique present ran from 1981 to 1992 and was introduced again by the BBC from 2015 to 2019.

He was additionally credited for writing 11 episodes of the cartoon Depend Duckula, which adopted the adventures of a vegetarian vampire obsessive about fame and wealth.

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Trueman additionally acquired 47 voice-acting credit for the present over its 65 episodes, enjoying Nanny, in addition to many background characters.

Trueman, who was born in Manchester, was identified for his work with the British animation studio, Cosgrove Corridor.

The studio, shaped in 1976 by animators Brian Cosgrove and Mark Corridor and primarily based within the Manchester suburb of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, was behind a number of the most profitable kids’s exhibits of the Nineteen Eighties, earlier than it was wound down in 2009.