Creator
Oliver Postgate
- Born
- Apr 12, 1925 · Aged 83
- Died
- Dec 8, 2008
- Place of birth
- Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 8
- TV credits
- 9
- Directing credits
- 5
Also known as (1)
- Richard 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…
