Richard "Golly" Goleszowski is an English animator. Goleszowski was born in Suffolk in 1959 and grew up in Ipswich, attending Northgate Grammar School. After completing a degree in Fine Art at Exeter College of Art and Design specialising in animation, he experimented further with animation and DJ-ing before joining Aardman Animations in the early eighties. During his first nine-year stretch at Aardman he worked on several short films and promos including Morph, Sledgehammer for Peter Gabriel, Pee Wee's Playhouse in New York, his own film Ident and two Rex the Runt pilot films. His commercial work includes Domestos Big Dom, Grolsch, Cadbury?s Creme Eggs, Weetos and Maltesers and several European commercials. In 1992, Goleszowski left Aardman to pursue a freelance career during which time he worked in New Zealand as Production Adviser for Oscar and Friends, and wrote and directed 13 episodes of Rex the Runt for BBC2, winning the Carlton Award for International Animation at The Indies in 2000. He then directed Robbie the Reindeer in 1999 for the BBC Animation Unit. Robbie went on to win 19 international awards including a prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts award. 

1959 in Suffolk