Oliver Postgate
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
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Known for
Clangers
Narrator (voice)
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'
Self
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Bagpus (voice)
The Alchemists of Sound
Self
Ivor the Engine
Noggin the Nog
Narrator
Bagpuss
Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
Ivor The Engine
Narrator (voice)
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
Self
The Complete Bagpuss
Narrator / All Voices
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
Vote for Froglet
Narrator
The Pingwings
Clangers: Complete Collection
Narrator (Voice)
The Seal of Neptune
Narrator
The Complete Ivor the Engine
Narrator / All