Oliver Postgate
View on IMDb ↗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.
Known for
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
The Seal of Neptune
Noggin the Nog
Ivor The Engine
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
The Complete Bagpuss
Clangers
Ivor the Engine
Bagpuss
The Complete Ivor the EngineFilmography (17)
- 2023
Clangers: Complete CollectionNarrator (Voice) - 2009
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need MedleyBagpus (voice) - 2009
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small FilmsSelf - 2006
The Complete Ivor the EngineNarrator / All - 2005
The Complete BagpussNarrator / All Voices - 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'Self - 2003
The Alchemists of SoundSelf - 1986
Tottie: The Doll's WishNarrator - 1984
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's HouseNarrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice) - 1976
Ivor the Engine - 1974
BagpussNarrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice - 1974Vote for FrogletNarrator (voice)
- 1969
ClangersNarrator (voice) - 1960
The Seal of NeptuneNarrator - 1959
Noggin the NogNarrator - 1959
Ivor The EngineNarrator (voice) - —
The Pingwings