Editing Oliver Postgate (section)

{{Short description|British animator, puppeteer and writer}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Oliver Postgate
| birth_name         = Richard Oliver Postgate
| image              = Stella Bowen, Oliver Postgate.jpg
| caption            = Oliver Postgate in 1934, by [[Stella Bowen]]
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|df=yes|1925|4|12}}
| birth_place        = [[Hendon]], [[Middlesex]], England
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2008|12|8|1925|4|12}}
| death_place        = [[Broadstairs]], Kent, England
| occupation         = [[Animation|Animator]], [[puppeteer]], writer
| spouse             = {{marriage|Prudence Myers|1957|1982|end=died}}
| partner            = Naomi Linnell (1985–2008)
| children           = 3, including [[Daniel Postgate|Daniel]]
| family             = [[Postgate family]]<br/>[[Angela Lansbury]] cousin<br/>[[Margaret Cole]] aunt<br/>[[John Postgate (microbiologist)|John Postgate]] brother<br/>
| parents            = [[Raymond Postgate]]<br/>[[Daisy Lansbury]]
}}

[[File:Oliver Postgate plaque.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Blue plaque]] on Oliver's former home in Broadstairs, with ''[[Clangers]]'' mosaic below]]
'''Richard Oliver Postgate''' (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English [[Animation|animator]], [[puppeteer]], and writer.<ref name=ODNB/>  He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. ''[[Bagpuss]]'', ''[[Pingwings]]'', ''[[Noggin the Nog]]'', ''[[Ivor the Engine]]'', ''[[Clangers]]'' and ''[[Pogles' Wood]]'', were all made by [[Smallfilms]], the company he set up with collaborator, artist and puppet maker [[Peter Firmin]]. The programmes were originally broadcast by the [[BBC]] from the 1950s to the 1980s. In a 1999 BBC poll ''Bagpuss'' was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.<ref name="Bagpuss"/>