Oliver Postgate
Creator
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
Movies (8)
Clangers: Complete Collection2023Narrator (Voice)
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films2009Self
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley2009Bagpus (voice)
The Complete Ivor the Engine2006Narrator / All
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'2005Self
The Complete Bagpuss2005Narrator / All Voices
The Alchemists of Sound2003Self- Vote for Froglet1974Narrator (voice)
Shows (9)
Tottie: The Doll's Wish1986Narrator
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House1984Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
Ivor the Engine1976
Bagpuss1974Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
Clangers1969Narrator (voice)
The Seal of Neptune1960Narrator
Ivor The Engine1959Narrator (voice)
Noggin the Nog1959Narrator
The Pingwings