Known For
Creator
Birthday
April 12, 1925
Place of Birth
Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
Also Known As
- Richard Oliver Postgate
Oliver Postgate
Biography
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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Known For - Movies
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Bagpus (voice)
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'
as Self
The Alchemists of Sound
as Self
Clangers: Complete Collection
as Narrator (Voice)
The Complete Bagpuss
as Narrator / All Voices
Vote for Froglet
as Narrator (voice)
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
as Self
The Complete Ivor the Engine
as Narrator / All
Known For - TV Shows
Clangers
as Narrator (voice)
Noggin the Nog
as Narrator
Bagpuss
as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
Ivor the Engine
Ivor The Engine
as Narrator (voice)
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
as Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
The Pingwings
The Seal of Neptune
as Narrator
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
as Narrator