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Director

Oliver Postgate

Creator

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 4All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 1214985

IMDb ID: nm0692927

Known for: Creator

Born: April 12, 1925

Died: December 8, 2008

Age: 83

Place of birth: Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1959 - 2023

Years active: 65

Wikidata: Q3309512

Also known as

Richard Oliver Postgate

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Director (4)Creator (3)Animation (2)Writer (2)

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 time Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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