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.
Filmography (17 titles)
MovieClangers: Complete Collection
Narrator (Voice) · 2023
MovieOliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
Self · 2009
9.0MoviePeter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Bagpus (voice) · 2009
6.5MovieThe Complete Ivor the Engine
Narrator / All · 2006
MovieDon'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 · 2005
7.2MovieThe Complete Bagpuss
Narrator / All Voices · 2005
6.5MovieThe Alchemists of Sound
Self · 2003
ShowTottie: The Doll's Wish
Narrator · 1986
7.5ShowTottie: The Story of a Doll's House
Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice) · 1984
7.0ShowIvor the Engine
1976
Vote for Froglet
Narrator (voice) · 1974
6.8ShowBagpuss
Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice · 1974
7.1ShowClangers
Narrator (voice) · 1969
9.0ShowThe Seal of Neptune
Narrator · 1960
8.3ShowIvor The Engine
Narrator (voice) · 1959
8.8ShowNoggin the Nog
Narrator · 1959
ShowThe Pingwings