- Known For
- Creator
- Born
- April 12, 1925
- Place of Birth
- Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
- Died
- December 8, 2008
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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
movieClangers: Complete Collection
2023 · Narrator (Voice), Animation, Writer, Creator
movieOliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
2009 · Self
moviePeter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009 · Bagpus (voice)
movieThe Complete Ivor the Engine
2006 · Narrator / All, Writer, Producer
movieDon'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
movieThe Complete Bagpuss
2005 · Narrator / All Voices
movieThe Alchemists of Sound
2003 · Self
tvTottie: The Doll's Wish
1986 · Narrator, Director, Creator
tvTottie: The Story of a Doll's House
1984 · Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice), Director, Creator
tvIvor the Engine
1976 · , Creator
Vote for Froglet
movieVote for Froglet
1974 · Narrator (voice), Editor, Creator, Idea, Camera Operator
tvBagpuss
1974 · Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice, Director, Writer, Creator
tvClangers
1969 · Narrator (voice), Director, Creator
Pogles' Wood
tvPogles' Wood
1965 · Creator
tvThe Seal of Neptune
1960 · Narrator, Creator
tvIvor The Engine
1959 · Narrator (voice), Animation, Creator
tvNoggin the Nog
1959 · Narrator, Creator
tvThe Pingwings
— · , Director, Creator