Creator
Oliver Postgate
Also Known As: Richard Oliver Postgate
Birth Date
April 12, 1925
Death Date
December 8, 2008
(passed away at 83)
Place of Birth
Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
Popularity
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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.
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TV Show
Ivor The Engine
Narrator (voice)
1959 • 72 episodes
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TV Show
Clangers
Narrator (voice)
1969 • 26 episodes
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TV Show
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
1984 • 5 episodes
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TV Show
Ivor the Engine
1976 • 97 episodes
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TV Show
Bagpuss
Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
1974 • 13 episodes
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TV Show
Noggin the Nog
Narrator
1959 • 27 episodes
Movie
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'
Self
2005
TV Show
The Pingwings
— • 12 episodes
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Movie
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Bagpus (voice)
2009
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TV Show
The Seal of Neptune
Narrator
1960 • 6 episodes
TV Show
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
Narrator
1986 • 5 episodes
Movie
Clangers: Complete Collection
Narrator (Voice)
2023
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Movie
The Complete Ivor the Engine
Narrator / All
2006
Movie
Vote for Froglet
Narrator (voice)
1974
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Movie
The Complete Bagpuss
Narrator / All Voices
2005
Movie
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
Self
2009
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Movie
The Alchemists of Sound
Self
2003