Tony Hart (dead)

That's so sad. I believe he'd been quite ill for a long while.

How sad...

he came to our school at the height of his fame and opened our art block. he did a picture too, as did rolf harris.

latterly they turned it into the staff room - the pictures seemed to disappear - philistines.

Really sad. Childhood heros getting fewer.

That's sad to hear. I was thinking about him the other day whilst flicking through one of his books looking for activities for the kids and wondering if he was still with us.

Oh no, that's so sad

That is sad. I read an interview with him a while back (did you post that baron?) where he was talking about how he couldn't draw any more - very moving

Think i read that one too, it was very moving. Such a brialliant bloke, how very sad.

I can't believe another childhood icon has gone. So upsetting. Who will get Morph out of his cigar box now? ☹️

I did. I'm a huge fan - totally crap at art when I was at school but thanks to him I still doodled away. Never got anything in the gallery though ?

I propose a one minute's rendition of the Vision On gallery theme...

Oh no! Thats a sad piece of news indeed, I used to love his programme on TV when I was little and Im sure he had a huge influence on me in some way as I love art and painting watercolours , I suspect my being creative may have been spurred by him.

RIP Tony, gone to the great canvas in the sky x

I've been singing it sine you first posted this ?

That is so sad. I loved his programmes, and Morph ☹️

I saw him sunbathing in Scotland when I was little. I was very starstruck but he was very nice. I remember being a bit mezmorised by his wrinkly chest.

How sad.

Sir John Mortimer also died yesterday.

It's a spooky coincidence that Tony Hart died within weeks of Oliver Postgate, because it's hard to think of two other individuals who put in such colossal efforts to stimulate the imagination of several generations of children - Johnny Ball is the only other name that sprang immediately to mind (though he's a lot younger, so hopefully around for a good few years yet).

And I hope people don't overlook their contribution to animation history, as it's incalculable - without Postgate's creations and Morph (and Morph in particular was revolutionary), Britain might well not have had its 1980s/90s animation explosion and all that flowed from it: Wallace and Gromit, Peppa Pig, Creature Comforts, you name it.

Though Tony Hart didn't invent Morph - he was created by Aardman Animations.

I met Johnny Ball at a Scientists/Media party a few years ago. He was brilliant. Everyone in the room was desperate to talk to him. Marcus du Sautoy was completely star struck.

I had a research assistant from South America a few years ago, and she needed to watch an episode of Think of a Number one day - and was absolutely gobsmacked when I told her that a programme that was essentially a maths and science lecture ran for years and years and hundreds of instalments, and was wildly and genuinely popular (my mum despises television and everything that flows from it, but even she was a Johnny Ball fan). Apparently this would have been utterly inconceivable in Venezuela, where children's entertainment allegedly had no educational value at all.

So sad.

Tony, you will be missed.

That is sad ?

He was in his 80s though I think? So not bad going really.

I read that too. So sad ? He was such a legend.

Yet another of my childhood icons gone. Very sad.

I'd forgotten that he designed the original Blue Peter logo. RIP Tony.

That's so sad to hear.

Tony Hart, Jonny Ball and John Craven were my heroes. Simon and Peter from Blue Peter were my eye candy. Oh, and Luke Duke ?

RIP Tony.

Is this the interview you are talking about?

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article4847425.ece

Sad news. He was a childhood hero. I hated the fact that I was really unartistic as I would have killed to get a drawing on the gallery ?

That is so very sad.

I did not know he'd been ill.

I remember watching Vison On as a very young child and always liking him.He was like your Uncle Tony !

This thread is a nice tribute to him.

Does anyone also remember Brian Cant from Play Away ?..is he still alive ?

Anyway, thanks for posting this sad news.

I used to love Tony Hart - RIP - I once had a painting in the gallery.

? I made my first ever palm tree from rolled up paper after watching heartbeat. R I P Mr Tony Hart

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Oh, I've just shed a tear reading that Times Article. Bless him. It must have been so painful for him to lose his wife and then his ability to draw.

He looks so so sweet in the photo as well.

RIP Tony Hart - a childhood legend. ?

I have such fond memories of watching TakeHart and HartBeat.

RIP Tony.

RIP Tony, you were a truely inspiring man.