Ivor Wood (May 4, 1932 — October 13, 2004) was a British stop-motion animator who is best known for his work on childrens television series.
Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, to a British father and a French mother, his family moved to near Lyon in France after the second world war, where he was educated. He studied fine art in Paris, and later worked in an advertising agency in Paris, where he met Serge Danot , and together they made the acclaimed French series Le Manege Enchante (known in English as The Magic Roundabout), with Wood as the animator.
Following the success of the Magic Roundabout in the UK, Wood became both animator and director for a number of British animated children's programmes, starting with The Herbs in 1968, and in the seventies animated and directed Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings , The Wombles and Paddington Bear. In the 1980's he set up his own production company, Woodland Animations, which made the series Gran, Bertha, Charlie Chalk and Postman Pat.
He was survived by his wife Josiane and one son.
