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Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate

Died at 83

  • 4 movies
  • 9 series
  • Career 1959 – 2023

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.

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Oliver Postgate’s filmography

4 titles
The Complete Ivor the Engine
6.5
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The Complete Ivor the Engine

2006 · Animation · Family

Clangers: Complete Collection
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Clangers: Complete Collection

2023 · Family · Animation

The Complete Bagpuss
7.2
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