Oliver Postgate

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Oliver Postgate

Born

April 12, 1925 (Age: 83)

Place of Birth

Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

Died

December 8, 2008

Known For

Creator

Also Known As

Richard 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

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

2009

Poster for 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'

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

Poster for The Alchemists of Sound
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The Alchemists of Sound

2003

Poster for The Complete Bagpuss
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The Complete Bagpuss

2005

Poster for The Complete Ivor the Engine
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The Complete Ivor the Engine

2006

Poster for Vote for Froglet

Vote for Froglet

1974

Poster for Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films

2009

Poster for Clangers: Complete Collection

Clangers: Complete Collection

2023