Oliver Postgate
Age: N/A | From: Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
Person Details
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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
(1976) Creator
Clangers
(1969) Creator
Bagpuss
(1974) Creator
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
(1984) Creator
Noggin the Nog
(1959) Creator
The Pingwings
(2024) Creator
The Seal of Neptune
(1960) Creator
Pogles' Wood
(1965) CreatorActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Self | |
| Bagpus (voice) | ||
| 2006 | Narrator / All | |
| 2005 | Self | |
| Narrator / All Voices | ||
| 2003 | N/A | |
| 1984 | Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice) | |
| 1976 | N/A | |
| 1974 | Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice | |
| 1969 | N/A | |
| 1960 | Narrator | |
| 1959 | Narrator | |
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Creator | |
| 1976 | Creator | |
| 1974 | Creator | |
| 1969 | Creator | |
| 1965 | Creator | |
| 1960 | Creator | |
| 1959 | Creator | |
| Creator | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Director | |
| 1969 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |