Caroll Edwin Spinney, sometimes credited as Carroll Spinney or Ed Spinney (born December 26, 1933 in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) is a puppeteer most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the children's television show "Sesame Street". He graduated from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. Wikipedia
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A puppeteer since he was eight years old, Caroll Spinney has been the man inside the bird from the beginning. www.greatertalent.com/speakers/speakers.php?speakerid=266
Caroll Spinney has performed as Big Bird and Oscar on Sesame Street since the show's inception in 1969. Prior to that, he performed as many characters on Bozo's Big Top in Boston for ten years, had a career in art and animation, and served in the Air For search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Wisdom-of-Big-Bird/Caroll-S...
Spinney is the author of The Wisdom of Big Bird (And the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers , an inspirational memoir in which he shares the wisdom that he has gleaned over the years from his work creating and portraying one www.greatertalent.com/biography.php?id=266