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Richard Oliver Postgate, 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.
Birth Name
Richard Oliver Postgate
Born
Sunday, 12 April 1925
Died
Monday, 08 December 2008
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Children's TV on Trial | Self | 2007 |
| The Alchemists of Sound | Self - Narrator | 2003 |
| Timeshift | Himself (archive footage) | 2002 |
| The Twelve Tasks of Asterix | Narrator | 1976 |
| Ivor the Engine | (voice) | 1976 |
| Bagpuss | Narrator / Bagpuss / Mice / Professor Yaffle | 1974 |
| The Clangers | Narrator | 1969 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Children's TV on Trial | Self | 2007 |
| The Alchemists of Sound | Self - Narrator | 2003 |
| Timeshift | Himself (archive footage) | 2002 |
| The Twelve Tasks of Asterix | Narrator | 1976 |
| Ivor the Engine | (voice) | 1976 |
| Bagpuss | Narrator / Bagpuss / Mice / Professor Yaffle | 1974 |
| The Clangers | Narrator | 1969 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| The Clangers | 1969 |
