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Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate
  • Name: Oliver Postgate
  • Birthday: 1925-04-12
  • Also known as: Richard Oliver Postgate
  • Place of birth: Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
  • Popularity: 1.548
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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of... Read More

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Title Release date
Clangers: Complete Collection   as  Narrator (Voice) 2023-10-30
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films   as  Self 2009-12-22
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley   as  Bagpus (voice) 2009-11-13
The Complete Ivor the Engine   as  Narrator / All 2006-01-30
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'   as  Self 2005-09-05
The Complete Bagpuss   as  Narrator / All Voices 2005-04-04
The Alchemists of Sound   as  Self 2003-10-19
Vote for Froglet   as  Narrator 1974-10-10