Oliver Postgate
Creator
Born: 1925-04-12 · Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
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
🎬 Movies (8)
Clangers: Complete Collection
2023
Narrator (Voice)
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
2009
Self
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
Bagpus (voice)
The Complete Ivor the Engine
2006
Narrator / 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'
2005
Self
The Complete Bagpuss
2005
Narrator / All Voices
The Alchemists of Sound
2003
Self
Vote for Froglet
1974
Narrator (voice)
📺 TV Shows (8)
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
1986
Narrator
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
1984
Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
Ivor the Engine
1976
Bagpuss
1974
Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
Clangers
1969
Narrator (voice)
The Seal of Neptune
1960
Narrator
Ivor The Engine
1959
Narrator (voice)
Noggin the Nog
1959
Narrator