Richard Goleszowski was born in Suffolk on 17 October 1952 and grew up in Poland. He is 5 ft 6 in tall (168 cm) and weighs 10 st 9 lb (68 kg). After completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Exeter, experimenting with animation, he spent some time working as an illustrator and DJ before joining Aardman Animations in the early eighties.

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  • Richard Goleszowski was born in Suffolk on 17 October 1952 and grew up in Poland. He is 5 ft 6 in tall (168 cm) and weighs 10 st 9 lb (68 kg). After completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Exeter, experimenting with animation, he spent some time working as an illustrator and DJ before joining Aardman Animations in the early eighties. During his first nine year stretch at Aardman he worked on several short films and promos including Morph, Sledgehammer for Peter Gabriel, Pee Wee's Playhouse in New York, his own film Ident and two Rex the Runt pilot films. His commercial work includes Domestos Big Dom, Grolsch, Cadbury’s Creme Eggs, Weetos and Maltesers and several European commercials. In 1992, Golly left Aardman to pursue a freelance career during which time he worked in New Zealand as Production Adviser for Oscar and Friends, and wrote and directed 13 episodes of Rex the Runt for BBC2, winning the Carlton Award for International Animation at The Indies in 2000. He then went on to direct Robbie the Reindeer in 1999 for the BBC Animation Unit. Robbie went on to win 19 international awards including a prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (BAFTA). Following the success of Robbie Golly worked for two years on a project for Aardman’s feature film department as well as overseeing the second series of Rex the Runt as Executive Producer. From 2003 he directed two series of Creature Comforts – 2x13 episodes for ITV based on the Academy Award winning Nick Park short film. The first series went on to win 17 awards, and both series were nominated for a BAFTA. The second series includes a half-hour Christmas special. In between these two series, he devised Shaun the Sheep, writing and directing the pilot. Aardman’s first children’s TV series, Shaun the Sheep, was directed by Golly, who also wrote several episodes. Shaun has sold to 150 territories. In July 2005, Golly rejoined Aardman as Creative Director of the Broadcast and Development department, writing scripts, and overseeing new projects in development.
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  • Richard Goleszowski was born in Suffolk on 17 October 1952 and grew up in Poland. He is 5 ft 6 in tall (168 cm) and weighs 10 st 9 lb (68 kg). After completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Exeter, experimenting with animation, he spent some time working as an illustrator and DJ before joining Aardman Animations in the early eighties.
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  • Richard Goleszowski
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