Oliver Postgate
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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
The Complete Bagpuss
as Narrator / All Voices
2005
The Complete Ivor the Engine
as Narrator / All
2006
Vote for Froglet
as Narrator (voice)
1974
The Alchemists of Sound
as Self
2003
Clangers: Complete Collection
as Narrator (Voice)
2023
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Bagpus (voice)
2009
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
as Self
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'
as Self
2005
TV Appearances
Clangers
as Narrator (voice)
1969
Ivor the Engine
1976
The Pingwings
TBA
Bagpuss
as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
1974
Noggin the Nog
as Narrator
1959
The Seal of Neptune
as Narrator
1960
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
as Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
1984
Ivor The Engine
as Narrator (voice)
1959
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
as Narrator
1986