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Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate

ActorVisual EffectsCrewWriterProducer Apr 12 (died age 83) Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK 1959–2023 (64 year career)
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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 …

Known For

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

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

Bagpus (voice)
Clangers
Film

Clangers

Narrator (voice)
The Complete Bagpuss
Film

The Complete Bagpuss

Narrator / All Voices
Noggin the Nog
Film

Noggin the Nog

Narrator
Ivor The Engine
Film

Ivor The Engine

Narrator (voice)
Ivor the Engine
Film

Ivor the Engine

7.0 1976
Bagpuss
Film

Bagpuss

Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
The Alchemists of Sound
Film

The Alchemists of Sound

Self

Filmography