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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
7
Films
8
TV Shows
5
Crew Credits
Known For
15 Credits
Clangers
as Narrator (voice)
1969
Ivor the Engine
1976
Ivor The Engine
as Narrator (voice)
1959
Noggin the Nog
as Narrator
1959
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
as Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
1984
Bagpuss
as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
1974
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Bagpus (voice)
2009
The Pingwings
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
2005
The Seal of Neptune
as Narrator
1960
The Alchemists of Sound
as Self
2003
The Complete Ivor the Engine
as Narrator / All
2006
