Oliver Postgate

Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008), generally known as Oliver Postgate, was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 BBC poll Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time
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Details
Details
Date of Birth
Apr 12, 1925
Place of Birth
Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
Date of Death
Dec 08, 2008
Age
83
Known For
Creator
Also Known As
Richard Oliver Postgate
Images
Images

Movie Credits

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005
Self
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
Bagpus (voice)
The Alchemists of Sound
2003
The Complete Bagpuss
2005
Narrator / All Voices
The Complete Ivor the Engine
2006
Narrator / All, Writer, Producer
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
2009
Self
Vote for Froglet
1974
Narrator, Creator, Idea, Camera Operator, Editor
Movie Credits

TV Show Credits

Clangers
, Director, Creator
Ivor the Engine
, Creator
Noggin the Nog
Narrator, Creator
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice), Creator
Bagpuss
Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice, Director, Writer, Creator
The Seal of Neptune
Narrator, Creator
Pogles' Wood
Creator
The Pingwings
, Director, Creator
TV Show Credits
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