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Actor
Oliver Postgate
Creator1925Hendon, 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Credits
18- 2023
Clangers: Complete Collectionas Narrator (Voice) · Animation · Writer · CreatorMovie - 2009
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Filmsas SelfMovie - 2009
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medleyas Bagpus (voice)Movie - 2006
The Complete Ivor the Engineas Narrator / All · Writer · ProducerMovie - 2005
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 SelfMovie - 2005
The Complete Bagpussas Narrator / All VoicesMovie - 2003
The Alchemists of Soundas SelfMovie - 1986
Tottie: The Doll's Wishas Narrator · 5 episodes · Director · 5 episodes · CreatorTV show - 1984
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's Houseas Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice) · 5 episodes · Director · 5 episodes · CreatorTV show - 1976
Ivor the Engine97 episodes · CreatorTV show - 1974Vote for Frogletas Narrator (voice) · Camera Operator · Idea · Creator · EditorMovie
- 1974
Bagpussas Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice · 13 episodes · Director · 13 episodes · Writer · 13 episodes · CreatorTV show
