Oliver Postgate
Known for: Creator
Born: April 12, 1925
Died: December 8, 2008
Place of birth: Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
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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Filmography
8 movies · 10 TV shows, newest first
NR
Clangers: Complete Collection
2023
NR
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
2009
9.0
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
6.5
The Complete Ivor the Engine
2006
NR
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'
2005
7.2
The Complete Bagpuss
2005
6.5
The Alchemists of Sound
2003
NR
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
1986
7.5
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
1984
7.0
Ivor the Engine
1976NR
Vote for Froglet
1974
6.8
Bagpuss
1974
7.1
Clangers
19698.0
Pogles' Wood
1965
9.0
The Seal of Neptune
1960
8.3
Ivor The Engine
1959
8.8
Noggin the Nog
1959
NR
The Pingwings
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