Firmin, Peter

LC control no.	n 79065102
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Firmin, Peter *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1928-12-11
Death date	2018-07-01
Place of birth	Harwich (England)
Place of death	Kent (England)
Field of activity	Television--Production and direction Television authorship Puppet making Illustration of books
Affiliation	Colchester School of Art Great Britain. Royal Navy Smallfilms (Motion picture studio) Central School of Art & Design (London, England)
Profession or occupation	Television producers and directors Television writers Illustrators
Found in	Postgate, O. Noggin, the king, 1966, c1965. Scotsman WWW site, viewed Aug. 17, 2018 (Peter Firmin; Peter Arthur Firmin, television producer, writer, director, puppet-maker and illustrator; born 11 December 1928 in Harwich, Essex; died 1 July, 2018 in Kent, aged 89; co-creator of many of the best-loved characters on children's television in the UK in the 1960s and 1970, including Basil Brush, Noggin the Nog and Bagpuss) The writer's map, 2018: page 246 (Peter Firmin is an artist, author and puppet maker) Wikipedia web site, November 20, 2019: (Peter Firmin ; Peter Arthur Firmin (11 December 1928 - 1 July 2018) was an English artist and puppet maker. Born in Harwich, Essex, in 1928, Peter Firmin trained at the Colchester School of Art in Colchester. After National Service in the Royal Navy, he attended Central School of Art and Design in London from 1949-1952. He worked in a stained glass studio, as an illustrator and as a lecturer. It was while he was teaching at Central School of Art that Oliver Postgate came looking for, as Firmin put it: "... someone to illustrate a television story - someone who was hard up and would do a lot of drawing for very little money". Postgate and Firmin went on to form Smallfilms ; Firmin died on 1 July 2018 at his home in Kent after a short illness at the age of 89) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Firmin>
Associated language	eng