Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate

Known for: Creator
Biography: 1925-04-12
Deathday: 2008-12-08 (83 years old)

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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


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Known For
Creator

Gender
Male

Birthday
1925-04-12

Deathday
2008-12-08 (83 years old)

Birth Place
Hendon, United Kingdom

Children
Daniel Postgate

Father
Raymond Postgate

Mother
Daisy Postgate

Siblings
John Postgate

Citizenships
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom

Also Known As
Richard Oliver Postgate


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