Cast & creator
Oliver Postgate
Best known for Clangers, Clangers, Clangers
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.
Also known as: Richard Oliver Postgate
17
film credits
26
television credits
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1959–2023 · acting roles
7.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (43)
Showing 43 of 43 credits
Clangers
Narrator (voice)
1969Clangers
Director
1969Clangers
Creator
1969
Ivor the Engine
1976Ivor the Engine
Creator
1976
Ivor The Engine
Narrator (voice)
1959Ivor The Engine
Animation
1959Ivor The Engine
Creator
1959
Bagpuss
Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
1974Bagpuss
Director
1974Bagpuss
Writer
1974Bagpuss
Creator
1974
Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
1984Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
Director
1984Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
Creator
1984
Noggin the Nog
Narrator
1959Noggin the Nog
Creator
1959
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Bagpus (voice)
2009
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'
Self
2005
The Alchemists of Sound
Self
2003
The Pingwings
The Pingwings
Director
The Pingwings
Creator
Pogles' Wood
Creator
1965
Tottie: The Doll's Wish
Narrator
1986Tottie: The Doll's Wish
Director
1986Tottie: The Doll's Wish
Creator
1986
The Seal of Neptune
Narrator
1960The Seal of Neptune
Creator
1960
The Complete Ivor the Engine
Narrator / All
2006The Complete Ivor the Engine
Writer
2006The Complete Ivor the Engine
Producer
2006
The Complete Bagpuss
Narrator / All Voices
2005
Oliver Postgate: A Life in Small Films
Self
2009
Clangers: Complete Collection
Narrator (Voice)
2023Clangers: Complete Collection
Writer
2023Clangers: Complete Collection
Animation
2023Clangers: Complete Collection
Creator
2023Vote for Froglet
Narrator (voice)
1974Vote for Froglet
Creator
1974Vote for Froglet
Idea
1974Vote for Froglet
Camera Operator
1974Vote for Froglet
Editor
1974