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Oliver Postgate
Creator
12 Apr 1925
† 08 Dec 2008
Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
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 ...
Also Known As
Richard Oliver Postgate
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Oliver Postgate's Movies
69%
The Complete Bagpuss
04 Apr 2005
90%
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
13 Nov 2009
65%
The Alchemists of Sound
19 Oct 2003
60%
The Complete Ivor the Engine
30 Jan 2006
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Vote for Froglet
10 Oct 1974
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Clangers: Complete Collection
30 Oct 2023
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Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
22 Dec 2009
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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'
05 Sept 2005
