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Creator
Birthday
April 12, 1925
Died
December 8, 2008
Place of Birth
Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
Also Known As
- Richard Oliver Postgate
Oliver Postgate
0.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Narrator (Voice)
Clangers: Complete Collection
2023
🎬
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Self
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
2009
9.0
Bagpus (voice)
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
6.0
Narrator / All
The Complete Ivor the Engine
2006
0.0
Self
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
6.9
Narrator / All Voices
The Complete Bagpuss
2005
6.5
Self
The Alchemists of Sound
2003
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Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
1984
5.0
Ivor the Engine
1976
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Narrator
Vote for Froglet
1974
Credits
Clangers: Complete Collection
as Narrator (Voice)
2023
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🎬
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
as Self
2009
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Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
as Bagpus (voice)
2009
9.0
The Complete Ivor the Engine
as Narrator / All
2006
6.0
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
0.0
The Complete Bagpuss
as Narrator / All Voices
2005
6.9
The Alchemists of Sound
as Self
2003
6.5
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
as Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
1984
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Ivor the Engine
1976
5.0
🎬
Vote for Froglet
as Narrator
1974
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Bagpuss
as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
1974
6.7
Clangers
as Narrator (voice)
1969
7.0
The Seal of Neptune
as Narrator
1960
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Noggin the Nog
as Narrator
1959
8.3
Ivor The Engine
as Narrator / Ivor / Alice the Elephant
1959
8.0
🎬
The Pingwings
N/A
0.0