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Oliver Postgate
Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
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…
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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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2023
Clangers: Complete Collection
Movie Narrator (Voice)
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2009
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
Movie Self
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2009
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Movie Bagpus (voice)
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2006
The Complete Ivor the Engine
Movie Narrator / All
- 2005
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2005
The Complete Bagpuss
Movie Narrator / All Voices
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2003
The Alchemists of Sound
Movie Self
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1986
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
TV show Narrator
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1984
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
TV show Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
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1976
Ivor the Engine
TV show
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1974
Vote for Froglet
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1974
Bagpuss
TV show Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
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1969
Clangers
TV show Narrator (voice)
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1965
Pogles' Wood
TV show Creator
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1960
The Seal of Neptune
TV show Narrator
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1959
Ivor The Engine
TV show Narrator (voice)
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1959
Noggin the Nog
TV show Narrator
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The Pingwings
TV show
