For the English magician and television presenter, see Pete Firman.
Peter Firmin
Born
Peter Arthur Firmin
(1928-12-11)11 December 1928
Harwich, Essex, England
Died
1 July 2018(2018-07-01) (aged 89)
Blean, Kent, England
Occupation(s)
Artist, puppet maker, illustrator
Spouse
Joan Firmin
(m. 1952)
Children
6
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.
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...
illustrated books (published 1965–1977), created by Oliver Postgate and PeterFirmin. The television series is considered a cult classic from the golden age...
is a British animated children's television series which was made by PeterFirmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The series of thirteen...
Smallfilms, the company he set up with collaborator, artist and puppet maker PeterFirmin. The programmes were originally broadcast by the BBC from the 1950s to...
as "the foxes". The original Basil Brush glove puppet was designed by PeterFirmin in 1962 for an ITV television series and was voiced and performed by...
Giles Firmin (1614–1697), English minister and physician Hannah Firmin (born 1956), English illustrator, daughter of PeterFirmin Mickaël Firmin (born...
scripts, animated the characters, and voiced many of the characters) and PeterFirmin (who made the models of the characters and drew the artwork). Several...
animator and narrator) and PeterFirmin (who was its modelmaker and illustrator). Firmin designed the characters, and Joan Firmin, his wife, knitted and "dressed"...
to Smallfilms, the production company founded by Oliver Postgate and PeterFirmin and responsible for children's TV favourites Noggin the Nog, Ivor the...
British cutout animation television series created by Oliver Postgate and PeterFirmin's Smallfilms company. It follows the adventures of a small green steam...
It first aired on Southern Television. Created by Oliver Postgate and PeterFirmin of Smallfilms, it starred a family of penguin-like creatures who lived...
that his main influences have been Ray Harryhausen, Oliver Postgate, PeterFirmin, Chuck Jones, Yuri Norstein, Richard Williams, Terry Gilliam, and Bob...
Apart from their cutout animation series, British studio Smallfilms (PeterFirmin and Oliver Postgate) produced several stop motion series with puppets...
Oliver Postgate’s business partner and other founder of Smallfilms, PeterFirmin on the production of a new series of The Clangers, with Daniel Postgate...
Money Day', a Merry-Go Round schools' programme in which puppet maker PeterFirmin and his small friend Muskit encountered different prices and new coins...
executed by the Germans, brought back from Belgium and buried at Dovercourt PeterFirmin (1928- 2018) artist and puppet maker Randolph Stow (1935–2010) reclusive...
theatre. Owen had already developed expertise in puppet voices when he met PeterFirmin, Basil's designer, in the 1960s. He voiced Basil from his first appearance...
Edinburgh (1987–1994). 1 July Roy Carr, 72–73, English music journalist. PeterFirmin, 89, English artist and puppet maker (Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine...
of Neptune is a children's programme created by Oliver Postgate and PeterFirmin, also known for their works Ivor the Engine and Clangers. It was broadcast...
Cover of the Year" at the British Book Awards 2004. Firmin is the second daughter of PeterFirmin, co-creator with the late Oliver Postgate, of the children's...
likes to torment lesser beings with her power. Oliver Postgate and PeterFirmin, The Ice Dragon (1962), one of the books in The Saga of Noggin the Nog:...
musician (composed the theme music of Nickelodeon), dies at age 80. July 1: PeterFirmin, English animator, puppeteer and illustrator (co-creator of Noggin the...
– BBC1 first airs the children's television series Bagpuss, made by PeterFirmin and Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms in stop motion animation. Despite 13...