Actor
Oliver Postgate
April 12, 1925 · Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
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
Often works with
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Olwen Griffiths
3 titles together
Ivor The Engine, The Complete Ivor the Engine, Tottie: The Doll's Wish
John Faulkner
2 titles together
The Complete Bagpuss, Bagpuss
Sandra Kerr
2 titles together
The Complete Bagpuss, Bagpuss
Anna Calder-Marshall
2 titles together
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House, Tottie: The Doll's Wish
Full filmography · 13
The Pingwings
cast and Director
Upcoming
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
as Narrator and Director
1986
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
as Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice) and Director
1984
Ivor the Engine
cast
1976
Bagpuss
as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice and Writer and Director
1974
Clangers
as Narrator (voice) and Director
1969
The Seal of Neptune
as Narrator
1960
Ivor The Engine
as Narrator (voice)
1959
Noggin the Nog
as Narrator
1959