Claudio Biern Boyd (21 November 1940 – 17 October 2022) was a Spanish television writer, director, producer and founder of the Spanish animation studio

BRB Internacional BRB Internacional S.A.U is a Spanish licensing and production company of animated television series as ''Around the World with Willy Fog'', ''Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'' and ''The World of David the Gnome''. On 31 January 2018, WildBrain ...

. He created the television shows ''

The World of David the Gnome ''The World of David the Gnome'', originally titled ''David, el Gnomo'' (also known as ''David, the Gnome''), is a Spanish animated television series based on the children's book ''The Secret Book of Gnomes'', by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and ...

'' and '' Gladiator Academy'', among other projects.

Life and career

Throughout his professional career, Boyd received more than forty awards, among which are the Extraordinary Talent Award of the Academia de Televisión in 2017, Best Communicator with Children Award of the Festival Internacional de Comunicación Infantil El Chupete in 2014, Biznaga de Oro 2012 awarded by the

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in 2012, Medalla al Trabajo President Macià Generalitat de Catalunya in 2011, the European Tribute of Honor award given by Cartoon Forum in 2007 or the Bronze Medal of the New York International Film and Television Festival for the series ''

Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds ''Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'' (Spanish: ''D'Artacán y los Tres Mosqueperros''; Japanese: ''ワンワン三銃士 Wan Wan Sanjuushi'', lit., ''Woof Woof Three Musketeers'') is a children's animated television series that adapts the cl ...

'' in 1982. Boyd later chaired his companies, BRB Internacional and Apolo Films. He also ran as a candidate for the presidency of the football club

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, although he did not obtain the necessary votes to win. Boyd died on 17 October 2022, at the age of 81.

Filmography

*'' A Thousand and One... Americas'' *'' Around the World with Willy Fog'' *'' Willy Fog 2'' *''

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The Return of Dogtanian ''The Return of Dogtanian'' (Spanish: ''El retorno de D'Artacán'') is a 1989 Spanish-British children's animated television series, and a sequel to the 1981 series ''Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'', that continues the classic 1844 Alexand ...

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The Mozart Band ''The Mozart Band'' (original Spanish title, ''La banda de Mozart'') is a 1995 animated television series produced by BRB Internacional, Televisión Española and Marathon Animation studios with animation production by Wang Film Productions and S ...

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Football Stories Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

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The Gnomes' Great Adventure ''The Gnomes' Great Adventure'' is an American animated film first released, by Miramax Films, in 1987, and directed by Harvey Weinstein. The film was Weinstein's second and final directorial effort, following '' Playing for Keeps'' (1986). Bas ...

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Wisdom of the Gnomes ''Wisdom of the Gnomes'' ( es, La llamada de los gnomos, literally "Call of the gnomes") is an animated series produced by Spanish company BRB Internacional and Televisión Española about Gnomes. It was a spin-off of the series ''The World of Davi ...

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Ruy, the Little Cid ''Ruy, the Little Cid'' is a Spanish animated adventure series produced by Spanish studio BRB Internacional and Televisión Española with animation by Japanese studio Nippon Animation. The series is based upon the life of El Cid, an 11th-century ...

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Vicky & Johnny ''Vicky & Johnny'' () is a South Korean-Spanish series of animated shorts produced by Tuba Entertainment in South Korea and BRB Internacional, Screen 21 and Televisió de Catalunya in Spain. While the shorts are known as ''Vicky & Johnny'' in South ...

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The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse ''The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse'' is a 1996–1997 26-episode half-hour television animated series loosely inspired by the real life Eliot Ness, and his group of agents colloquially known as Untouchables (law enforcement), the Untouchables, and ...

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* 1940 births 2022 deaths People from Palma de Mallorca Spanish animators Spanish film directors Spanish film producers Spanish television producers Spanish animated film directors Spanish animated film producers {{animator-stub