Britt Allcroft Dies: Writer, Director & Producer Behind ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ Was 81
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deadline.comBritt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends for television, has died. She was 81. According to Allcroft’s daughter Holly Wright, she died on Wednesday, Dec.
25 in Los Angeles, The New York Times reported. Allcroft was responsible for bringing Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s books The Railway Series to British TV in 1984 as a children’s show narrated by Ringo Starr.
The series ran for 24 seasons through 2021, before the animated series Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go debuted on Netflix.
The show also spawned multiple specials and movies, as well as popular toys and merchandise. In 1979, Allcroft met Awdry while making a documentary about British steam engines.
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