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    Oliver Postgate

    1925-04-12 (99 years old) in 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 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.

    Movies

    Series

    poster
    Ivor the Engine
    50 %|Jan 26, 1976
    Animation
    poster
    Bagpuss
    67 %|Feb 12, 1974
    Kids, Animation
    poster
    Clangers
    70 %|Nov 16, 1969
    Kids, Animation, Family
    actor
    The Pingwings
    0 %|Invalid Date
    Animation
    poster
    Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House
    0 %|Feb 6, 1984
    Animation
    poster
    The Seal of Neptune
    0 %|Jul 6, 1960
    Animation, Family, Kids
    poster
    Noggin the Nog
    83.33 %|Sep 11, 1959
    Animation, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy