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Oliver Postgate
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British animator, puppeteer and writer (1925-2008)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1925
- Died
- 2008
- Works
- 85
Top works
- The Ice Dragon
- The Saga of Noggin the Nog
- Ivor the Engine
- Saga of Noggin the Nog
- Omruds
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Film & TV
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…
Known for
- Clangers: Complete Collection — Narrator (Voice)2023
- Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley — Bagpus (voice)2009
- Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films — Self2009
- The Complete Ivor the Engine — Narrator / All2006
- The Complete Bagpuss — Narrator / All Voices2005
- 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' — Self2005
- The Alchemists of Sound — Self2003
- Tottie: The Doll's Wish — Narrator1986
- Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House — Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)1984
- Ivor the Engine1976
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- Listeners
- 75
- Total plays
- 471
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Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) 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 poll <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Oliv
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Oliver
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Hendon
- Place of death
- Broadstairs
- Father
- Raymond Postgate
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- Kingston University
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1925-04-12
- date of death
- 2008-12-08
- Commons category
- Oliver Postgate
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