OLIVER POSTGATE
Oliver Postgate
Gender: Male
Known for: Creator
Birthday: April 12, 1925
Deathday: December 8, 2008
Place of Birth: Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
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
Notable work
Filmography
Starring
TBA·
The PingwingsNarrator (Voice)
Bagpus (voice)
Narrator / All
2005·
The Complete BagpussNarrator / All Voices
Self
Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
1976·
Ivor the Engine1974·
BagpussNarrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
1974·
Vote for FrogletNarrator
1969·
ClangersNarrator (voice)
1960·
The Seal of NeptuneNarrator
1959·
Ivor The EngineNarrator / Ivor / Alice the Elephant
1959·
Noggin the NogNarrator
Production
TBA·
The PingwingsCreator, Director
Creator, Writer, Animation
Producer, Writer
Creator
1976·
Ivor the EngineCreator
1974·
BagpussCreator, Writer, Director
1974·
Vote for FrogletEditor, Creator, Idea, Camera Operator
1969·
ClangersCreator, Director
1965·
Pogles' WoodCreator
1960·
The Seal of NeptuneCreator
1959·
Ivor The EngineCreator
1959·
Noggin the NogCreator