Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children's television series Thomas & Friends, has passed away at the age of 81.

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Britt Allcroft, the British writer, director and producer who steered the animated locomotive Thomas the Tank Engine to television 40 years ago en route to launching a ...

PHOTOS Celebrity Deaths: 2024's Fallen Stars It wasn't until over a decade later that she and her husband — fellow producer Angue Wright — started the production company The Britt Allcroft ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the ... The franchise’s long-running success was the subject of last year’s Brannon Carty-helmed documentary An Unlikely Fandom.

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 ...

But Allcroft made Thomas an international sensation, starting in the mid-1980s with her TV adaptation narrated by Ringo Starr. The series, which was later renamed Thomas & Friends, ran for more ...

Growing up in the south of England in the early 1950s, Britt Allcroft liked to stop at a railway bridge on her walk to school and wait for a steam train to come charging by. “That wonderful ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica, Calif., at 81. Thomas started out ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” series, has died at age 81, filmmaker Brannon Carty announced on X. Allcroft was most known for producing popular children ...