Person Details

Birthday: 1925-04-12 12:07:04

Death: 2008-12-08 12:07:04

Aliases: Richard Oliver Postgate

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 7

TV Involvements: 16


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Ivor the Engine
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5

Ivor the Engine

(1976) Creator
Clangers
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7

Clangers

(1969) Creator
Bagpuss
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7

Bagpuss

(1974) Creator
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
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0
Noggin the Nog
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8

Noggin the Nog

(1959) Creator
The Pingwings
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0

The Pingwings

(2024) Creator
The Seal of Neptune
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The Seal of Neptune

(1960) Creator
Pogles' Wood
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Pogles' Wood

(1965) Creator

Acting

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2006 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2006 Writer
1974 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Creator

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1974 Director
1969 Director
Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

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