[2] He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb (1974), Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1976–77) and Henry's Cat (1983–1993) and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements[3] shown in the UK during the early 1980s.
However, he also produced a BAFTA and Academy award-winning short film, Great (1975),[4] a humorous biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Further Academy Awards nominations received were for Kama Sutra Rides Again (1971), Dream Doll (1979), with Zlatko Grgic,[5] and Small Talk (1994) with animator Kevin Baldwin.
[10] Godfrey was taken on by the Larkins Studio in 1950[9] where he worked with Peter Sachs before leaving to set up Biographic with Keith Learner and Jeff Hale.
He was also responsible for a number of slightly risqué cartoons satirising British sexual habits, such as Henry 9 To 5, which was also awarded a BAFTA in 1971.
Kama Sutra Rides Again (1971) was selected by Stanley Kubrick for screening with the UK release of his film A Clockwork Orange.
Godfrey was the director of the short film Great (1975), a humorous look at the life and works of the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
[15] Henry's Cat, created by Stan Hayward and animated and narrated by Bob Godfrey, was first screened on 12 September 1983.
His later films included social and political satires based on the work of Steve Bell, such as Beaks to the Grindstone and A Journalist's Tale.
"[13] Godfrey received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb in 1992.