Oliver Postgate
Puppeteer, TV Program Creator
1925 – 2008
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Who was Oliver Postgate?
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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- Born
- Apr 12, 1925
Hendon - Also known as
- Richard Oliver Postgate
- Parents
- Spouses
- Prudence Postgate
(1957 - 1982) - Naomi Linnell
(1985 - 2008)
- Prudence Postgate
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Kingston University
- Died
- Dec 8, 2008
Broadstairs
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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