Oliver Postgate
Known for CreatorBorn 1925-04-12 — died 2008-12-08Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
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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Known for
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 · as Self
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009 · as Bagpus (voice)
The Complete Ivor the Engine
2006 · as Narrator / All
The Alchemists of Sound
2003 · as Self
Clangers: Complete Collection
2023 · as Narrator (Voice)
Vote for Froglet
1974 · as Narrator (voice)
The Complete Bagpuss
2005 · as Narrator / All Voices
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
2009 · as Self