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, died on Dec.
Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends for television, has died. She was 81. According to Allcroft’s daughter Holly Wright, she died on Wednesday, Dec. 25 in Los ...
She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr. Conductor on television. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Britt Allcroft, the British ...