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Peter Firmin
Born
Peter Arthur Firmin

(1928-12-11)11 December 1928
Harwich, Essex, England
Died1 July 2018(2018-07-01) (aged 89)
Blean, Kent, England
Occupation(s)Artist, puppet maker, illustrator
Spouse
Joan Firmin
(m. 1952)
Children6

Peter Arthur Firmin (11 December 1928 – 1 July 2018) was an English artist and puppet maker. He was the founder of Smallfilms, along with Oliver Postgate. Between them they created a number of popular children's TV programmes, The Saga of Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood.

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Peter Firmin

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Peter Arthur Firmin (11 December 1928 – 1 July 2018) was an English artist and puppet maker. He was the founder of Smallfilms, along with Oliver Postgate...

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Noggin the Nog

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illustrated books (published 1965–1977), created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. The television series is considered a cult classic from the golden age...

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Bagpuss

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is a British animated children's television series which was made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The series of thirteen...

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Oliver Postgate

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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...

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Basil Brush

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as "the foxes". The original Basil Brush glove puppet was designed by Peter Firmin in 1962 for an ITV television series and was voiced and performed by...

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Firmin

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Giles Firmin (1614–1697), English minister and physician Hannah Firmin (born 1956), English illustrator, daughter of Peter Firmin Mickaël Firmin (born...

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Smallfilms

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scripts, animated the characters, and voiced many of the characters) and Peter Firmin (who made the models of the characters and drew the artwork). Several...

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Clangers

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animator and narrator) and Peter Firmin (who was its modelmaker and illustrator). Firmin designed the characters, and Joan Firmin, his wife, knitted and "dressed"...

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Kent

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to Smallfilms, the production company founded by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin and responsible for children's TV favourites Noggin the Nog, Ivor the...

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Ivor the Engine

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British cutout animation television series created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It follows the adventures of a small green steam...

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Pingwings

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It first aired on Southern Television. Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin of Smallfilms, it starred a family of penguin-like creatures who lived...

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Nick Park

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that his main influences have been Ray Harryhausen, Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin, Chuck Jones, Yuri Norstein, Richard Williams, Terry Gilliam, and Bob...

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Stop motion

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Apart from their cutout animation series, British studio Smallfilms (Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate) produced several stop motion series with puppets...

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Daniel Postgate

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Oliver Postgate’s business partner and other founder of Smallfilms, Peter Firmin on the production of a new series of The Clangers, with Daniel Postgate...

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Decimal Day

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Money Day', a Merry-Go Round schools' programme in which puppet maker Peter Firmin and his small friend Muskit encountered different prices and new coins...

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Harwich

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executed by the Germans, brought back from Belgium and buried at Dovercourt Peter Firmin (1928- 2018) artist and puppet maker Randolph Stow (1935–2010) reclusive...

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Ivan Owen

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theatre. Owen had already developed expertise in puppet voices when he met Peter Firmin, Basil's designer, in the 1960s. He voiced Basil from his first appearance...

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2018 in the United Kingdom

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Edinburgh (1987–1994). 1 July Roy Carr, 72–73, English music journalist. Peter Firmin, 89, English artist and puppet maker (Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine...

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The Seal of Neptune

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of Neptune is a children's programme created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, also known for their works Ivor the Engine and Clangers. It was broadcast...

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Hannah Firmin

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Cover of the Year" at the British Book Awards 2004. Firmin is the second daughter of Peter Firmin, co-creator with the late Oliver Postgate, of the children's...

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List of dragons in literature

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likes to torment lesser beings with her power. Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, The Ice Dragon (1962), one of the books in The Saga of Noggin the Nog:...

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2018 in animation

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musician (composed the theme music of Nickelodeon), dies at age 80. July 1: Peter Firmin, English animator, puppeteer and illustrator (co-creator of Noggin the...

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1974 in the United Kingdom

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– BBC1 first airs the children's television series Bagpuss, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms in stop motion animation. Despite 13...

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