Claudio Biern Boyd

Claudio Biern Boyd (1940 to 2022) was a Spanish television writer, director and producer who founded the animation studio BRB Internacional. Born in Palma, Majorca, to a Catalan father and a Scottish mother, he studied law at the University of Deusto in Bilbao and began his career in marketing at Lever Iberica and other multinationals before turning to animation. He created television series including The World of David the Gnome and Gladiator Academy, and his credits also include Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, Around the World with Willy Fog, Ruy, the Little Cid and Fantaghiro. He later chaired BRB Internacional and Apolo Films, and received more than forty awards over his career, among them an Extraordinary Talent Award from the Spanish Academia de Television in 2017. He died on 17 October 2022 at the age of 81.