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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Clangers (1969) — Narrator (voice)
2. The Complete Bagpuss (2005) — Narrator / All Voices
3. Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley (2009) — Bagpus (voice)
4. Bagpuss (1974) — Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
5. Noggin the Nog (1959) — Narrator
6. Ivor the Engine (1976)
7. Ivor The Engine (1959) — Narrator (voice)
8. The Complete Ivor the Engine (2006) — Narrator / All
9. The Alchemists of Sound (2003) — Self
10. Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House (1984) — Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
11. The Seal of Neptune (1960) — Narrator
12. Vote for Froglet (1974) — Narrator (voice)
13. Clangers: Complete Collection (2023) — Narrator (Voice)
14. Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films (2009) — Self
15. 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) — Self
16. The Pingwings
17. Tottie: The Doll's Wish (1986) — Narrator

Directed

1. Clangers (1969) — Director
2. Bagpuss (1974) — Director
3. Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House (1984) — Director
4. The Pingwings — Director
5. Tottie: The Doll's Wish (1986) — Director