Oliver Postgate

Creator·Apr 12, 1925·Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

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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.

Film	Credit
Clangers: Complete Collection2023 · Narrator (Voice), Writer	Narrator (Voice), Writer
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films2009 · Self	Self
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley2009 · Bagpus (voice)	Bagpus (voice)
The Complete Ivor the Engine2006 · Narrator / All, Writer, Producer	Narrator / All, Writer, Producer
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 · Self	Self
The Complete Bagpuss2005 · Narrator / All Voices	Narrator / All Voices
The Alchemists of Sound2003 · Self	Self
VVote for Froglet1974 · Narrator (voice)	Narrator (voice)