- Jim Henson
Jim Henson, born James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990), was the most widely known American puppeteer in modern American television history. He was the creator of The Muppets and the leading force behind their long creative run in the television series "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show" and films such as "The Muppet Movie" (1979) and "The Dark Crystal" (1982). - Frank Oz
Frank Oz (born May 25, 1944) is an American film director, actor and puppeteer. - Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is a nine-time Emmy-winning American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, author, and producer. He is perhaps best known as the host of Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show" and for his political satire. Stewart started off as a stand-up comedian but later moved on to television, hosting "Short Attention Span Theater" for Comedy Central. He then went on to host his own show on MTV, called "The Jon Stewart Show". - Kevin Clash
Kevin Clash (born September 17, 1960) is an accomplished puppeteer whose characters include Elmo, Clifford, Splinter, and Hoots the Owl. He currently serves as "Sesame Street" Muppet Captain and co-executive producer. In the fall of 2006, Kevin Clash released an autobiography titled "My Life as a Furry Red Monster". - Shari Lewis
Shari Lewis was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s. She is best known as the original puppeteer of Lamb Chop, first appearing on "Hi Mom", a local morning show that aired on WNBC in New York. Lewis was Jewish-American. Her father was a founding member of Yeshiva University in New York City. - Caroll Spinney
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. - Bob Clampett
Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett (May 8 1913-May 4 1984) was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the "Looney Tunes" series of cartoons from Warner Bros. and the television shows "Time for Beany", and "Beany and Cecil". - Steve Whitmire
Steve Whitmire (born September 24 1959) is a puppeteer with the Jim Henson Company. He has been the performer of two signature Muppets - Kermit the Frog and "Sesame Street's" Ernie - since the passing of their creator, Jim Henson, in 1990. Characters original to Whitmire include Rizzo the Rat, Lips (the trumpet player from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem), Foo-Foo (Miss Piggy's beloved dog), "Fraggle Rock's" Wembley Fraggle, and Bean Bunny. - Brian Henson
Brian Henson (born 1963 in New York City, New York) is an Academy Award-winning puppeteer, director, producer, and technician. The son of puppeteers Jane and Jim Henson, he, along with his sister Lisa, is co-chair and co-CEO of the Jim Henson Company. He provided the voice of Hoggle, one of the main characters, in "Labyrinth" (1986). - Jerry Nelson
Jerry Nelson (born July 10, 1934) is a Muppet puppeteer. He performed many characters on "The Muppet Show", including Sgt. Floyd Pepper of the Electric Mayhem band, Dr. Julius Strangepork, Lew Zealand, Robin, and Gonzo's sidekick Camilla the Chicken, as well as less prominent characters including Lewis Kazager, Pops, Fleet Schribbler, and J.P. Grosse. His "Sesame Street" characters include Count von Count (1972-), Sherlock Hemlock (1970-1992), … - Fred Rogers
Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers was an American educator, minister, songwriter and television host. Rogers was the host of the internationally acclaimed children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", in production from 1968 to 2001. As Mister Rogers, he became an iconic presence to millions of viewers. Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister. - Dave Goelz
Dave Goelz (born July 16, 1946) is a puppeteer best-known for his association with The Muppets, and in particular with the Muppet character Gonzo. His other Muppet characters include Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Zoot (the saxophonist of Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem), Beauregard the janitor, Clueless Morgan ('Muppet Treasure Island') and Tiny (the humungous chicken in 'Elmo In Grouchland'). - Rick Lyon
Rick Lyon is a puppeteer and actor originally from Rochester, New York, who has worked for the Jim Henson Company as one of the operators of Big Bird. He appeared on Broadway originating the roles of several characters in "Avenue Q", a musical for which he designed and created the puppets. In the fall of 2005 he reprised his roles as Nicky and Trekkie Monster in the production of the show in Las Vegas for nine months, where he met and married co-star Tonya Dixon, … - Stephanie D'Abruzzo
Stephanie D'Abruzzo (b. 7 December, 1971) is an American actress and puppeteer. - Richard Hunt
Richard Hunt (August 16, 1951 - January 7 1992) was an American puppeteer from Closter, New Jersey best known for his association with The Muppets. His Muppet characters included Scooter, Janice, Beaker, Statler, and Sweetums, He also performed many characters on "Sesame Street", including Forgetful Jones, Placido Flamingo, Don Music, and an early Elmo. Following Hunt's death from AIDS, the role of Beaker was inherited by Steve Whitmire, … - John Tartaglia
John Nicholas Tartaglia (born February 16 1978) is an American singer, actor, dancer, and puppeteer. Tartaglia was born on February 16, 1978 in Maple Shade, New Jersey, USA. He joined "Sesame Street's" puppetry team at the age of 16 part-time, performing as a right hand and many minor characters, including Phoebe and being the backup for Kevin Clash's Elmo. - Ronnie Burkett
Ronnie Burkett (born June 10, 1957 in Lethbridge, Alberta) is a Canadian puppeteer, best known for his original theatrical plays for adults, performed with marionettes. He was the puppeteer for Ralph on the TV Ontario series "Harriet's Magic Hats" during seasons 3 & 4. After winning a regional Emmy Award in 1979 for the puppets in "Cinderrabbit" on PBS in the US, Burkett formed his own theatre company in Alberta in 1986. - Bil Baird
William Britton Baird (August 15, 1904 - March 18, 1987), professional name Bil Baird, but often referred to as Bill Baird, was an American puppeteer of the mid- and late 20<sup>th</sup> century. One of his better known creations was Charlemane the lion. He wrote "The Art of the Puppet" (1965) and also provided the puppets for "Dark Shadows". - Tammy Faye
Tamara "Tammy" Faye LaValley Bakker Messner (born March 7, 1942) is an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show hostess, actress and a prominent television personality. She is the former wife of televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker, and she co-hosted with him on "The PTL Club", from 1976 to 1987. She is known for her tendency to wear heavy makeup, … - Drew Massey
Drew Massey is a puppeteer for The Jim Henson Company for the Muppets and has performed in many TV shows, movies, TV commercials. He also lends his voice for commercials and video games. His film credits include The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, The Producers (2005 film), Dr. Dolittle, Cats & Dogs, Team America, and Men In Black I and Men in Black II. Drew has also performed on TV in Greg the Bunny, Angel, Malcolm in the Middle, Muppets Tonight, Cousin Skeeter, … - Wayland Flowers
Wayland Flowers (November 26, 1939-October 11 ,1988) in Gulfport, Mississippi), was an American puppeteer. Flowers was best known for his puppet Madame, who was a huge hit with audiences in the 1970s and 1980s. - Deep Roy
Gurdeep Roy, sometimes credited as Roy Deep, Gordeep Roy, or just Deep Roy, is an actor, stuntman and puppeteer. Born Mohinder Purba in Nairobi, Kenya, Roy is a 52-inch (132 centimetre) tall dwarf. Because of his short stature, he has played a variety of unusual characters in his acting career. He has played apes in two movies: "Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, … - Paul Zaloom
Paul Finley Zaloom (born 14 December 1951 in Garden City, Long Island) is an American actor and puppeteer best known for his role as the title character on the television show "Beakman's World". Zaloom began his entertainment career with the Bread and Puppet Theater, a troupe specializing in self-invented, home-made theater. In his solo work he utilizes found-object animation, … - Karen Prell
Karen Prell is best known as the performer of Red Fraggle on Fraggle Rock. She also performed some characters in other Jim Henson films, and has enjoyed a signficant second career as a computer animator for such studios as Pixar and DNA. On Sesame Street she performed Deena Monster, which was a background character in classic Sesame Street. Her website, which is listed below, includes notes about working with Jim Henson and pictures of her custom puppets. - Tony Sarg
Anthony Frederick Sarg (April 21, 1880 - February 17, 1942), known professionally as Tony Sarg, was a German-American puppeteer and illustrator, described as "America's Puppet Master", and in his biography as the father of modern puppetry in North America. Sarg was born in Coban, Guatemala, to Francis Charles Sarg, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Parker. The elder Sarg was a consul representing Germany; Parker was English. - Louise Gold
Louise Gold (born 1956 in London) is a British singer-actress and "Spitting Image" puppeteer, formerly a puppeteer for "The Muppet Show" and "Sesame Street". Gold trained at The Arts Educational Schools and as a stage actress she has appeared in a number of West End musicals, where her roles have included: Reno Sweeney in "Anything Goes", Tanya in "Mamma Mia!", Phyllis in "Follies", … - Fran Brill
Fran Brill (born September 30, 1946 in Chester, Pennsylvania), is an American actor, voice actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on "Sesame Street". She is a graduate of Boston University's Fine Art School. - Robert Smigel
Robert Smigel (born February 7 1960) is an American humorist and performer best known for his "Saturday Night Live" "TV Funhouse" cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. Smigel was once a member of the Chicago comedy troupe All You Can Eat. - Scott Land
Scott Land is a professional puppeteer. His skills are on display in many scenes in Paramount Pictures’ Team America: World Police. During the four months making the movie — the most expensive puppet-driven feature film ever produced — director/producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone relied on his 25 years of marionette experience to help them create their landmark film. - Jennifer Barnhart
Jennifer Barnhart (born in Hamden, Connecticut) is a puppeteer, American actress and voice-over talent, with a portfolio of television and theatre performances. - Jane Henson
Jane Henson is the widow of puppeteer Jim Henson. Born Jane Nebel and raised in New York, she met Henson while both were freshmen at the University of Maryland, College Park. They worked together on the live fifties television show "Sam and Friends", where Jane collaborated with Jim in performing Muppets and devising several of the show's technical innovations, including the use of television monitors to watch their performances in real time. - Kevin Murphy
Kevin Wagner Murphy (born November 3, 1956 in River Forest, Illinois) is a United States actor and puppeteer. For eleven years he was a writer for the Peabody Award-winning comedy series "Mystery Science Theater 3000", for nine of those years playing and operating Tom Servo, one of the show's puppet characters. - Harry Corbett
Harry Corbett, OBE (born Bradford, West Yorkshire, 28 January 1918, died 17 August 1989) was an English puppeteer, known as the creator in 1948 of the longrunning 'Sooty' glove puppet character. Corbett was the nephew of the famous fish and chip shop magnate Harry Ramsden. He found the original Sooty glove puppet in a novelty shop on the end of Blackpool's North Pier for 7 shillings and 6 pence. - Matthew Corbett
Matthew Corbett OBE is an English television personality known for "The Sooty Show". He took over Sooty from his father, Harry Corbett in 1976. Once he retired in the late-1990s, he hand picked Richard Cadell to replace him. He also appeared in the 1971 "Doctor Who" serial "The Dæmons" and appeared in the children's show "Rainbow" for a number of years in the mid-70s before his Sooty days. - Bill Barretta
Bill Barretta has been performing with the Muppets since 1991, when he performed the body of family father Earl Sinclair on "Dinosaurs". He later developed several new characters on "Muppets Tonight", including Pepe the King Prawn, Johnny Fiama and Bobo the Bear. Along with having his own Muppet characters, Bill has taken over several of Jim Henson's roles, such as Dr. Teeth, Rowlf, … - Leslie Carrara
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is a Muppeteer. Carrara began her Muppeteer career on "Muppets Tonight", where she played the Pamela Anderson take-off character Spamela Hamderson in the sketch Bay of Pigs Watch. She also usually puppeteered J.P. Grosse, when the character was not speaking, and was the assistant puppeteer for Johnny Fiama. She performed Edi in "Animal Jam", and then Blue in "Blue's Room". She joined the cast of "The Radio Adventures of Dr. - Jim Martin
Jim Martin is a puppeteer, best known for his roles on "Sesame Street". As part of the cast, he has won an Emmy Award. He has been nominated multiple times, and won for "Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design/Styling" at the Emmys, also for "Sesame Street". In the 1970s, Jim presented old cartoons to Pittsburgh-area television watchers on "Capt. Jim's Popeye Club", as the title role. Later puppeteered a character in another local show, … - Kathryn Mullen
Kathryn "Kathy" Mullen is an actress, voice actress, and puppeteer most closely associated with Jim Henson projects. She began performing on "The Muppet Show" in its third season, primarily as Gaffer the Backstage Cat. She also voice directs "Dog City" for Nelvana, worked as a designer for "The Muppet Movie" and was one of the creators of "Between the Lions". While reprising this character for several Muppet movies, … - Ralph Lee
Ralph Lee is an Obie award-winning mask and puppet maker living in New York City. In 1973, he staged a wandering neighborhood puppet show in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that would become the inspiration for New York's Village Halloween Parade, which continues to this day, now attracting audiences of two million. Lee is the Artistic Director of Mettawee River Theatre Company, an experimental theatrical company which uses masks and pageant sized puppets in its productions. - Tim Blaney
Tim Blaney (born in 1959) is an American puppeteer and voice actor. He has provided the voices for Frank the Pug in "Men in Black" and "Men in Black II" and the self-aware robot Johnny 5 in "Short Circuit" and "Short Circuit 2".
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