Oliver Postgate

Known for: Creator
Born: April 12, 1925, Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
Died: December 8, 2008
Movies: 10

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 Movies

7.2

The Complete Bagpuss

2005

9.0

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley

2009

7.0

The Alchemists of Sound

2003

6.5

The Complete Ivor the Engine

2006

Clangers: Complete Collection

2023

Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

2009

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

Filmography

2023	Clangers: Complete Collection	Narrator (Voice)
2009	Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films	Self
2009	Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley	Bagpus (voice)
2006	The Complete Ivor the Engine	Narrator / All
2005	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	The Complete Bagpuss	Narrator / All Voices
2003	The Alchemists of Sound	Self
1974	Vote for Froglet	Narrator (voice)

Directing, Writing & Producing

2023	Clangers: Complete Collection	Writer
2006	The Complete Ivor the Engine	Writer, Producer

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