Oliver Postgate
Creator • Born 1925-04-12 – Died 2008-12-08
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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
17 credits
The Complete Bagpuss
Movie • 2005
Narrator / All Voices
The Complete Ivor the Engine
Movie • 2006
Narrator / All
Vote for Froglet
Movie • 1974
Narrator
The Alchemists of Sound
Movie • 2003
Self
Clangers: Complete Collection
Movie • 2023
Narrator (Voice)
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Movie • 2009
Bagpus (voice)
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
Movie • 2009
Self
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'
Movie • 2005
Self
Clangers
TV • 1969
Narrator (voice)
Ivor the Engine
TV • 1976
The Pingwings
TV
Bagpuss
TV • 1974
Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
Noggin the Nog
TV • 1959
Narrator
The Seal of Neptune
TV • 1960
Narrator
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
TV • 1984
Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
Ivor The Engine
TV • 1959
Narrator (voice)
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
TV • 1986
Narrator