Oliver Postgate
- Known for
- Creator
- Born
- 12 April 1925 · Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
- Died
- 8 December 2008
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.
Writing 3
- 2023Clangers: Complete Collection · writer
- 2006The Complete Ivor the Engine · writer
- 1974Vote for Froglet · idea
visual effects 1
- 2023Clangers: Complete Collection · animation
crew 2
- 2023Clangers: Complete Collection · creator
- 1974Vote for Froglet · creator
Acting 8
- 2023Clangers: Complete Collection as Narrator (Voice)
- 2009Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films as Self
- 2009Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley as Bagpus (voice)
- 2006The Complete Ivor the Engine as Narrator / All
- 2005Don'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
- 2005The Complete Bagpuss as Narrator / All Voices
- 2003The Alchemists of Sound as Self
- 1974Vote for Froglet as Narrator (voice)
Production 1
- 2006The Complete Ivor the Engine · producer
Editing 1
- 1974Vote for Froglet · editor
Camera 1
- 1974Vote for Froglet · camera operator