She has worked on films including Lost in Space, Dog Soldiers, and the first four Harry Potter films. Tacy is an actress, animatronics artist and painter as an animatronics designer, she initially worked for Jim Henson's Creature Shop before working independently in special effects. Matthew is also a writer, winning the Book of the Year prize at the Whitbread Book Awards in 2000 for the novel English Passengers. They had two children, a daughter Tacy (born 1958) and a son Matthew (born 1960). Kerr and Kneale were married in 1954 they remained married until his death in 2006.

Kerr naturalised as a British subject on 21 June 1947. Kneale later prompted her to apply for a job as a BBC television scriptwriter. He wrote the cult TV science-fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment for which Kerr helped make and operate the special effects. She met her future husband, screenwriter Nigel 'Tom' Kneale, in the BBC canteen. Life in London ĭuring the Second World War, Judith Kerr worked for the Red Cross, helping wounded soldiers, before being awarded a scholarship to study at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and becoming an artist.

The family later travelled to France, before finally settling in Britain in 1936, where Judith Kerr lived for the remainder of her life.

Alfred Kerr's books were burned by the Nazis shortly after he fled Germany. The family fled Germany for Switzerland on the morning of the election and later learned that the Nazis had come to their home in Berlin the following morning to arrest them. Her parents were both from German Jewish families.Įarly in March 1933, the family heard a rumour that, should the Nazis come to power in the forthcoming election, they planned to confiscate their passports and arrest Alfred Kerr for having openly criticised the party. Kerr was born on 14 June 1923 in Berlin, the daughter of Alfred Kerr (1867–1948), a theatre critic, and Julia Kerr (born Julia Anna Franziska Weismann 1898–1965), a composer who was the daughter of a Prussian politician. Born in the Weimar Republic, she came to Britain with her family in 1935 to escape persecution during the rise of the Nazis. She created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came to Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the semi-autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which gave a child's-eye view of escaping Hitler's persecution in the Second World War. Recorded December 2008 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Woman's HourĪnna Judith Gertrud Helene Kerr OBE (surname pronounced / ˈ k ɑːr/ KAR German pronunciation: 14 June 1923 – ) was a German-born British writer and illustrator whose books sold more than 10 million copies around the world.

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