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Brian Sandford has been Sweep's puppeteer since May 1987. Brian got the job as his father, who at that time was the theatre manager of The New Theatre in Hull, knew Matthew Corbett. Matthew had been taking his theatre tour to Hull for many years, and Brians' father took the opportunity to hand Matthew Brian's CV. He makes cameos in both the feature-length special, The Big Day Out and the first episode of the 2011 series of Sooty, The Wedding. He can also be seen in the second series episodes The New Building where he dodges the runaway toilet and The Genie where he and Brenda Longman get ice-creams magicked into their faces by the Genie. He was unavailable for the majority of the third series. However, he does work on the third episode, Who's Got Talent?. He also appears in the series finale, Just Deserts, standing in the queue outside Mr. Slater's ice-cream shop.
Brian Sandford
Sweep
for Sweep in Harold and the Purple Crayon (TL-JRA)
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Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 American live-action/animated fantasy comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha (in his live-action feature-length directorial debut) from a screenplay by David Guion, Michael Handelman, Dan Gregor, and Doug Mand based on the 1955 children's book by Crockett Johnson. Combining live-action and animation, the film stars Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Ringo Starr, Zooey Deschanel and Jon Lovitz, This film takes place in the real life world of Rhode Island where fictional and cartoon characters live alongside real humans. In the film, After he draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds that he has a lot to learn about real life. Later, Reformed chihuahua and Cartoon All-Star member Jonathan temporarily relocates his friends the Cartoon All-Stars to the real world when his old rival Gary Natwick seeks revenge. Meanwhile, Lyla and her friends, are augmented with superpowers from the Cartoon All-Star League (CASL), forming a superhero initiative known as the Super Loopsters.
