Jimmy Hibbert(I)

Jimmy Hibbert was born on July 15, 1949 in Windsor, Berkshire, England as James Christian Hibbert. He is an actor and writer, known for Count Duckula (1988), The BFG (1989), Noddy's Toyland Adventures (1992), Frankenstein's Cat (2007) and Little Red Tractor (2003).

James Christian Hibbert was born as the eldest of three children of author Christopher Hibbert and Susan Hibbert, with all three of them growing up in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. His younger brother was the late music journalist Tom Hibbert. After studying drama at the University of Manchester, he met CP Lee and Bob Harding, and the three of them formed the band Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias in 1972, with Hibbert on vocals and bass. The band called it a day in 1982, and Hibbert got his first voice acting role for the Milk Marketing Board, doing an impression of Ian Dury.

As well as voice acting for animation, he has made a few on-screen acting appearances on British TV programmes and films such as Coronation Street, What the Papers Say, Cold Feet, The Grand, Medics, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Prime Suspect, Children's Ward, Wipe Out, Floodtide, Room at the Bottom, The Practice, Teach Yourself Gibberish and Bloody Kids.

In 1977, he appeared on stage at London's Royal Court Theatre and Roundhouse as part of the Albertos' musical play Sleak, playing the lead role of Norman Sleak.