Oliver Postgate
Birthday
1925/04/12
Day of death
2008/12/08 (83 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
Also know 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 ...Read more
Acting
(2005) The Complete Bagpuss
as Narrator / All Voices
(2006) The Complete Ivor the Engine
as Narrator / All
(1974) Vote for Froglet
as Narrator
(2003) The Alchemists of Sound
as Self
(2023) Clangers: Complete Collection
as Narrator (Voice)
(2009) 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
(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 Self
(1969) Clangers
as Narrator (voice)
(1976) Ivor the Engine
as ---
The Pingwings
as ---
(1974) Bagpuss
as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
(1959) Noggin the Nog
as Narrator
(1960) The Seal of Neptune
as Narrator
(1984) Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
as Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)