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Oliver Postgate

Creator Born Apr 12, 1925 Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK 17 credits

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

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Known for

Film

Lili Marleen

as Narrator (voice)

Ivor the Engine

1976
Film

Transporter 3

as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice

Full filmography

  • Clangers (1969) as Narrator (voice)
  • Ivor the Engine (1976)
  • Ivor The Engine (1959) as Narrator (voice)
  • Noggin the Nog (1959) as Narrator
  • Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House (1984) as Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
  • 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) as Self
  • Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley (2009) as Bagpus (voice)
  • Bagpuss (1974) as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
  • The Pingwings
  • The Seal of Neptune (1960) as Narrator
  • Tottie: The Doll's Wish (1986) as Narrator
  • The Alchemists of Sound (2003) as Self
  • Clangers: Complete Collection (2023) as Narrator (Voice)
  • The Complete Ivor the Engine (2006) as Narrator / All
  • Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films (2009) as Self
  • The Complete Bagpuss (2005) as Narrator / All Voices
  • Vote for Froglet (1974) as Narrator (voice)