Known for

Creator

Born

Apr 12, 1925

Died

Dec 8, 2008 (aged 83)

Place of birth

Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

Oliver Postgate

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.

Titles

Bagpuss

Series • 1974

Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House

Series • 1984

Ivor the Engine

Series • 1976

Ivor The Engine

Series • 1959

Clangers

Series • 1969

Tottie: The Doll's Wish

Series • 1986

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

Movie • 2009

The Alchemists of Sound

Movie • 2003

The Pingwings

Series

The Complete Bagpuss

Movie • 2005