Oliver Postgate

from Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

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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

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Timeline

2023Aged 98

  • Poster for Clangers: Complete Collection

    Narrator (Voice)

2009Aged 84

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

    Bagpus (voice)

  • Poster for Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

    Self

2006Aged 81

  • Poster for The Complete Ivor the Engine

    Narrator / All

2005Aged 80

  • Poster for The Complete Bagpuss

    Narrator / All Voices

  • Poster 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'

    Self

2003Aged 78

  • Poster for The Alchemists of Sound

    Self

1974Aged 49

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