Arthur Humberstone


Arthur Roland Humberstone was a British animator, artist and director, whose credits included Animal Farm, Yellow Submarine and The BFG.
In 1946, Arthur was one of the trainee animators enlisted at J Arthur Rank's new studio being set up at Moor Hall in Cookham led by ex-Disney Director David Hand, where he animated several Animaland shorts.
He worked with Halas & Batchelor and as a senior animator with Martin Rosen on Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.
Arthur Humberstone's influence on the film Watership Down is discussed in the chapter "Revisiting the production of Watership Down through the Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive" in the book .
An exhibition , of materials from the Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive, was shown at The Horse Hospital 13th April - 5th May 2023.
An exhibition was shown at the Post Hall, Sheffield Hallam University 8th March - 5th April 2025.

Filmography

YearTitleNotesRefs
1949Ginger Nutt's Christmas Circus
1950Ginger Nutt's Forest Dragon
1954Animal Farm
1963Noddy Goes to Toylanddirector and animator
1968Yellow Submarine
1972The Osmonds
1973The Addams Familyunit director
1974The Count of Monte Cristo
1978Watership Downsenior animator
1979The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
1982The Plague Dogssenior animator
1983SuperTedlayout artist, one episode
1989The BFGkey animator