Oliver Postgate
Known for
Creating
Born
April 12, 1925
Birthplace
Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
Died
December 8, 2008 (aged 83)
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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Best known work
Clangers
1969
The Complete Bagpuss
2005
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
Bagpuss
1974
Noggin the Nog
1959
The Alchemists of Sound
2003
Ivor the Engine
1976
Ivor The Engine
1959
The Complete Ivor the Engine
2006
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
1984Filmography
TBA
2023
Clangers: Complete Collectionas Narrator (Voice), Animation, Writer, Creator
2009
2009
2006
The Complete Ivor the Engineas Narrator / All, Writer, Producer
2005
2005
The Complete Bagpussas Narrator / All Voices
2003
The Alchemists of Soundas Self
1986
1984
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's HouseTVas Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice) (5 episodes), Director, Creator
1976
1974
Vote for Frogletas Narrator (voice), Editor, Creator, Idea, Camera Operator
1974
1969
1965
1960
1959
1959