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Bookmark or Share- Basil Brush - WikipediaIn September 1997, Ivan Owen and Peter Firmin sold the rights to Basil Brush to Bill Haslam, a Cornwall-based businessman and a longtime fan of the character. Haslam formed a Southampton-based company called "Boom!
- Ivan Owen - WikipediaIvan Owen (19 August 1927 – 17 October 2000) was a British actor, mainly a voice actor, who created the vocal persona of the puppet Basil Brush. [1] He performed as Basil from the early 1960s until his death.
- Basil Brush - IMDbIvan Owen provided the voice and actions of Basil. Such was Ivan's belief in the 18 inch high fox, he never allowed himself to be photographed in case it broke Basil's spell. Sadly, he passed away in 2000 following a long battle with cancer.
- BBC Blogs - BBC Genome Blog - The Sunday Post: A Brush with fameActor Ivan Owen's main claim to renown was as the original voice of children's favourite Basil Brush. Born in 1927, he studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic...
- Ivan Owen - The TelegraphIVAN OWEN, who has died aged 73, was the man behind the raucous voice of Basil Brush. In the mid-1950s, Owen, then a jobbing actor, found work providing voices for a puppet...
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