Personal Info
Richard Oliver Postgate
Oliver Postgate
Creator
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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Filmography
Movies
Clangers: Complete Collection
as Narrator (Voice)
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Bagpus (voice)
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
as Self
The Complete Ivor the Engine
as Narrator / All
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'
as Self
The Complete Bagpuss
as Narrator / All Voices
The Alchemists of Sound
as Self
Vote for Froglet
as Narrator (voice)
TV Shows
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
as Narrator · 5 ep.
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
as Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice) · 5 ep.
Ivor the Engine
97 ep.
Bagpuss
as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice · 13 ep.
Clangers
as Narrator (voice) · 26 ep.
The Seal of Neptune
as Narrator · 6 ep.
Ivor The Engine
as Narrator (voice) · 72 ep.
Noggin the Nog
as Narrator · 27 ep.
The Pingwings
12 ep.