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 ...

She adapted the children’s book series to TV, creating a lasting cultural behemoth that spawned movies, merchandise and theme ...

Thomas the Tank Engine creator Britt Allcroft has died aged 81. The producer brought the beloved children's series to TV screens after securing the rights to adapt Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s Railway ...

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 ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer behind the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine TV series Thomas And Friends, has died. Brannon Carty, a filmmaker who made the documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of ...

Britt Allcroft, creator of beloved children series Thomas the Tank Engine, has died. She was 81. On Thursday, Jan. 2, filmmaker, Brannon Carty announced the legendary producer's death in a ...

The series aired as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends from 1984 until 2021. Allcroft’s family remembered her as an “adoring mother and wife and visionary producer” in an emotional statement.

Britt Allcroft, the ‘visionary’ creator behind the hit children’s TV show based on Thomas the Tank Engine, has reportedly died aged 81. The tragic news was announced by friend and filmmaker ...

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has died aged 81. In the 1970s, the TV producer secured the rights to adapt the Reverend Wilbert Awdry’s ...

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.