Oliver Postgate
Known for: Creator
Born: April 12, 1925
Died: December 8, 2008
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…
Known for
The Complete Ivor the Engine
2006
Vote for Froglet
1974
The Alchemists of Sound
2003
Clangers: Complete Collection
2023
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
2009
The Complete Bagpuss
2005
Clangers
1969
Ivor the Engine
1976
The Pingwings
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
2009
Bagpuss
1974
Noggin the Nog
1959
The Seal of Neptune
1960
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
1984
Ivor The Engine
1959
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
1986
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