Oliver Postgate
Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) 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.
Personal facts
| Birth date | April 12, 1925 |
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| Birth name | Richard Oliver Postgate |
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| Date of death | December 08, 2008 |
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External resources
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20070715.shtml
- http://www.dragons-friendly-society.co.uk
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/10/bagpuss-oliver-postgate
- http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/campus/chronicle.html
- http://www.smallfilms.co.uk
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3689392/Oliver-Postgate.html