Oliver Postgate

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

Clangers

1969•TV Series•

7.1

Ivor the Engine

1976•TV Series•

7.0

Ivor The Engine

1959•TV Series•

8.3

Bagpuss

1974•TV Series•

6.8

Noggin the Nog

1959•TV Series•

8.8

Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House

1984•TV Series•

7.5

Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley

2009•Movie•

9.0

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'

2005•Movie

Filmography