Oliver Postgate
Gender: Male
Birthday: 1925-04-12 - 2008-12-08
Place of Birth: Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
Also Known As: Richard 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.
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Known For
1976Ivor the Engine
1969Clangers
1959Ivor The Engine
1984Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
1974Bagpuss
2009Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
1959Noggin the Nog
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'
1986Tottie: The Doll's Wish
1960The Seal of Neptune
2003The Alchemists of Sound
The Pingwings
2006The Complete Ivor the Engine
2005The Complete Bagpuss
2009Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
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