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|title1=Ian McCue
 
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|born=21st January 1968
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|nationality=British
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|occupation=Producer, writer, television executive, voice actor
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|years_active=1985 - present<br>2010 - present {{T&F}}
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{{Quote|My favourite engine has to be Paxton the diesel. He may be a little rough around the edges but he's a kind and very funny diesel. He's a bit of a clown...just like ''me''!|Ian McCue on [[Paxton]], 2015 Licensing Source Book Interview}}
 
{{Quote|My favourite engine has to be Paxton the diesel. He may be a little rough around the edges but he's a kind and very funny diesel. He's a bit of a clown...just like ''me''!|Ian McCue on [[Paxton]], 2015 Licensing Source Book Interview}}
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'''Ian McCue''' is an English producer, writer, television executive and voice actor.
 
'''Ian McCue''' is an English producer, writer, television executive and voice actor.
   
He is the Senior creative executive producer at [[HiT Entertainment]]/[[Mattel Creations]] for all of its brands, including [[Thomas & Friends]]. During the [[Season 15|fifteenth season]], he served as a line producer alongside [[Denise Green]]. He worked alongside [[Halim Jabbour]] until Jabbour left the series. He also wrote the [[Thomas' Comedy Showtime]] and [[Meet the Contenders]] shorts for the official YouTube channel, as well as [[Thomas & Friends in 4-D: Bubbling Boilers]]. He served as producer for the [[Season 16|sixteenth]] through [[Season 20|twentieth seasons]] and all eight specials in that time. He now serves as "creative executive". He joined HiT in 2008.
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He is the senior creative executive producer at [[HiT Entertainment]]/[[Mattel Creations]] for all of its brands, including [[Thomas & Friends]]. During the [[Series 15|fifteenth series]], he served as a line producer alongside [[Denise Green]]. He worked alongside [[Halim Jabbour]] until Jabbour left the series. He also wrote the [[Thomas' Comedy Showtime]] and [[Meet the Contenders]] shorts for the official YouTube channel, as well as [[Thomas & Friends in 4-D: Bubbling Boilers]]. He served as producer for the [[Series 16|sixteenth]] through [[Series 20|twentieth series]] and all eight specials in that time. He served as "creative executive" during the [[Series 21|twenty-first series]] and [[Series 22|twenty-second series]], before becoming producer again from the [[Series 23|twenty-third series]] after [[Micaela Winter]] left Mattel in August 2018. He joined HiT in 2008.
   
He launched and ran Festivus, an animation networking and social event for years. He has overseen the production of some of the UK's best loved children's TV series. In 2011, he won the Beyond the Call of Duty Award for his time as a children's producer.
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He launched Festivus, an animation networking and social event he ran for years. He has overseen the production of some of the UK's most well known children's TV series. In 2011, he won the Beyond the Call of Duty Award for his time as a children's producer.
   
 
==Producer==
 
==Producer==
===Seasons===
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===Series===
* [[Season 15]] (''line producer'')
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* [[Series 15]] {{Note|line producer}}
* [[Season 16]]
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* [[Series 16]]
* [[Season 17]]
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* [[Series 17]]
* [[Season 18]]
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* [[Series 18]]
* [[Season 19]]
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* [[Series 19]]
* [[Season 20]]
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* [[Series 20]]
* [[Season 21]] (''creative executive'')
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* [[Series 21]] {{Note|creative executive}}
* [[Season 22]] (''creative executive'')
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* [[Series 22]] {{Note|creative executive}}
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* [[Series 23]]
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* [[Series 24]]
   
 
===Specials===
 
===Specials===
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* [[The Great Race]]
 
* [[The Great Race]]
 
* [[Journey Beyond Sodor]]
 
* [[Journey Beyond Sodor]]
* [[Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie]] (''creative executive'')
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* [[Big World! Big Adventures!]] {{Note|supervising producer}}
   
 
==Writer==
 
==Writer==
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===Episodes===
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* [[Yong Bao and the Tiger]]
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===Special episodes===
 
===Special episodes===
 
* [[Thomas & Friends in 4-D: Bubbling Boilers|Bubbling Boilers]]
 
* [[Thomas & Friends in 4-D: Bubbling Boilers|Bubbling Boilers]]
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* [[Meet the Contenders]]
 
* [[Meet the Contenders]]
 
* [[Thomas & Friends Adventures Shorts]]
 
* [[Thomas & Friends Adventures Shorts]]
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===[[Music Videos]]===
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* [[Legend of the Lost Engine]]
   
 
==Voices==
 
==Voices==
 
===UK/US===
 
===UK/US===
* [[The Sea Serpents|The Blue Sea Serpent]] (''[[New Crane on the Dock]]'')
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* [[The Sea Serpents|The Blue Sea Serpent]]
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Tiger Hunters|The Thin Tiger Hunter]]
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* [[Minor Human Characters in the Television Series#The Crown Thieves|A Thief]] {{Note|[[Heart of Gold]]}}
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==Songs==
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===Songs Performed===
 
* [[He's Full of Surprises]] {{Note|with [[Andrew Brenner]], [[Oliver Davis]] and [[David Stoten]]}}
   
==Songs Performed==
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=== SongsComposed===
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* [[Legend of the Lost Engine]] {{Note|with [[Chris Renshaw]]}}
* [[He's Full of Surprises]] (''with [[Andrew Brenner]], [[Oliver Davis]] and [[David Stoten]]'')
 
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* [[Party Train]] {{Note|with Chris Renshaw}}
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
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* Since he joined the voice cast, McCue has never voiced any major vehicle characters. As another note, most of his roles are in a duo with [[Rob Rackstraw]].
* He, [[Albert Cohen]], [[Marion Edwards]], [[Christopher Keenan]], [[Erica Welch]], [[Andrew Defty]], [[Karen Davies]], [[Thomas Holborow]], [[Steven Kynman]], [[Christopher Skala]], [[Michelle Rodda]], [[Jan Page]], [[Lee Pressman]], [[Helen Farrall]], [[John Hasler]], [[Ross Hastings]], [[Laura Beaumont]], [[Paul Larson]], [[Miranda Larson]], [[Karen Davidsen]], [[Karen Barnes]], [[Lenora Hume]], [[Sam Barlow]], [[Andrew Brenner]], [[Dave Ingham]], [[Simon Nicholson]], [[Jocelyn Stevenson]], [[Sharon Quick]], [[Pete Atkin]], [[Fiona Hardwick]], [[Lorna Withrington]], [[Finn Poncin]], [[Lizzie Ennever]], [[Prokhor Chekhovskoy]], [[Oliver Böttcher]], [[Oliver Davis]], [[Łukasz Talik]], [[Samuel Harjanne]], [[Nir Ron]], [[Stan Limburg]], [[Mia Kadosh]], [[Petri Hanttu]], [[Simona Pahl]], [[Gadi Levy]], [[Robert Hartshorne]], [[Arlyn Bantog]], [[Tim Bain]], [[Benjamin Morik]], [[Achim Schülke]] and [[Ole Jacobsen]] have all worked on "Fireman Sam".
 
* He, [[Tom Stourton]], [[Loraine Marshall]] and [[Dave Ingham]] all worked on the 1995 adaptation of 'The Wind in the Willows.' They, along with [[Mike Grady]], also worked on it's 1996 sequel, 'The Willows in Winter.'
 
   
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
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==External Link==
 
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* [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ian-mccue/30/765/936?trk=pub-pbmap LinkedIn profile]
 
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[[Category:Production crew]]
 
[[Category:Production crew]]
 
[[Category:People]]
 
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[[Category:English Voice Cast]]
 
[[Category:English Voice Cast]]
 
[[Category:Voice actors]]
 
[[Category:Voice actors]]
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[[Category:Mattel Creations]]
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[[Category:Composers]]

Revision as of 21:13, 23 May 2020


“My favourite engine has to be Paxton the diesel. He may be a little rough around the edges but he's a kind and very funny diesel. He's a bit of a clown...just like me!”
― Ian McCue on Paxton, 2015 Licensing Source Book Interview

Ian McCue is an English producer, writer, television executive and voice actor.

He is the senior creative executive producer at HiT Entertainment/Mattel Creations for all of its brands, including Thomas & Friends. During the fifteenth series, he served as a line producer alongside Denise Green. He worked alongside Halim Jabbour until Jabbour left the series. He also wrote the Thomas' Comedy Showtime and Meet the Contenders shorts for the official YouTube channel, as well as Thomas & Friends in 4-D: Bubbling Boilers. He served as producer for the sixteenth through twentieth series and all eight specials in that time. He served as "creative executive" during the twenty-first series and twenty-second series, before becoming producer again from the twenty-third series after Micaela Winter left Mattel in August 2018. He joined HiT in 2008.

He launched Festivus, an animation networking and social event he ran for years. He has overseen the production of some of the UK's most well known children's TV series. In 2011, he won the Beyond the Call of Duty Award for his time as a children's producer.

Producer

Series

Specials

Writer

Episodes

Special episodes

Promotional Videos

Music Videos

Voices

UK/US

Songs

Songs Performed

SongsComposed

Trivia

  • Since he joined the voice cast, McCue has never voiced any major vehicle characters. As another note, most of his roles are in a duo with Rob Rackstraw.

Gallery