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James Maury "Jim" Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), was one of the most widely known puppeteers in American history. He was the creator of The Muppets. He was the leading force behind their long run in the television series Sesame Street...
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| x Jerry Nelson |
Jerry Nelson (born July 10, 1934 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a Muppet puppeteer who was raised in Washington, D.C., known for his wide range of characters, singing abilities, and his frequent partnership with Richard Hunt.
Jerry Nelson began puppeteering...
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| x Steve Whitmire |
Steve Whitmire (born September 24, 1959) is a puppeteer with The Jim Henson Company and Sesame Workshop. 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,...
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| x 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...
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| x 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 directed Dog City...
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Frank Oz (born Richard Frank Oznowicz; May 25, 1944) is a British-born American film director, actor and puppeteer.
Oz was born in Hereford, England, the son of Frances and Isidore Oznowicz, both of whom were puppeteers. His parents were refugees...
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| x The Muppet Show | ||
| x Muppet Hits | ||
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| x The Muppet Show: Music, Mayhem, and More! (The 25th Anniversary Collection) | ||
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| x Kermit Unpigged |
Kermit Unpigged is a music and comedy record released by The Jim Henson Company through BMG Kidz in 1995, and the last album released by Jim Henson Records. The record’s title is a clear parody of the MTV series “MTV Unplugged.” The album consisted...
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| x The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas |
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The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas is a Christmas album by the Muppets. The album was released on October 17, 2006 on CD and as a digital download in the iTunes Store.
In 2008, the album won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children.
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Rocky Mountain Holiday is a TV show and a soundtrack album of songs from the show, performed by American singer-songwriter John Denver and The Muppets. The show has Denver playing host to the extended Muppet family; he takes them up into the scenic...
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| x The Dark Crystal |
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The Dark Crystal is a 1982 fantasy film directed by puppeteers Jim Henson and Frank Oz, creators of The Muppet Show. Although still marketed as a family film, it was notably darker than previous material created by them. Characters for which they...
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| x The Muppet Movie |
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The Muppet Movie is the first of a series of live-action musical feature films starring Jim Henson's Muppets. Released in 1979, the film was produced by The Jim Henson Company under their second name and ITC Entertainment.
The film is a film-within...
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| x The Muppets Take Manhattan |
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The Muppets Take Manhattan is the third of a series of live-action musical feature films starring Jim Henson's Muppets, and the final film before Henson's death. This film was produced by Henson Associates and TriStar Pictures, and originally...
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| x The Great Muppet Caper |
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The Great Muppet Caper is a 1981 film directed by Jim Henson. It is the second of a series of live-action musical feature films, starring Jim Henson's Muppets. This film was produced by Henson Associates, ITC Entertainment and Universal Pictures,...
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| x Sesame Street presents Follow That Bird |
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Sesame Street presents Follow That Bird (commonly shortened to Follow That Bird) is a road film directed by Ken Kwapis, starring many Sesame Street characters (both puppets and live actors). This was the first of two Sesame Street feature films,...
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| x Louise Gold |
Louise Gold (born 1956) is a British singer, actress and puppeteer.
She was a puppeteer for The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and various other Muppet films and specials, and for the satiric television show Spitting Image from 1984. She is also known...
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| x John Lovelady |
John Lovelady is a right-handed puppeteer who worked with the Muppets, including on Sesame Street. He stopped working with the Muppets when The Muppet Show Season 1 ended but later joined the syndicated children's series The Great Space Coaster and...
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| x Richard Hunt |
Richard Hunt (August 16, 1951 - January 7, 1992) was an American puppeteer.
Born in the Bronx, New York City, Hunt grew up in Closter, New Jersey. He was best known for his association with The Muppets. He was frequently partnered with Jerry Nelson....
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| x Eren Ozker |
Eren Ozker (Turkish: Eren Özker; 25 July 1948 – 25 February 1993) was an American Puppeteer. She was one of the original performers during the first season of Jim Henson's popular television series, The Muppet Show.
Ozker was born in Ankara, Turkey...
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| x Kermit the Frog |
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Kermit the Frog is one of puppeteer Jim Henson's most famous Muppet creations, first introduced in 1955. Kermit was performed by Henson until his death in 1990. Since then he has been performed by Steve Whitmire. He was voiced by Frank Welker in...
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| x Miss Piggy |
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Miss Piggy is a Muppet character who was primarily played by Frank Oz on The Muppet Show. In 2001, Eric Jacobson began performing her, although Oz did not officially retire until 2002.
She was voiced by Laurie O'Brien in Muppet Babies and Hal Rayle...
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| x Fozzie Bear |
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Fozzie Bear is a Muppet, originally created by Jim Henson. He is an orange, particularly fuzzy bear who tells jokes and has a catch phrase, "Wocka Wocka Wocka". Shortly after telling the joke, he is constantly the target of rotten tomatoes and...
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| x Swedish Chef |
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The Swedish Chef is a Muppet that appeared on The Muppet Show. He was operated by Jim Henson and Frank Oz simultaneously and is now puppeteered by Bill Barretta.
A parody of television chefs, the Swedish Chef wears a toque blanche and has bushy...
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Camilla is the female chicken that is Gonzo's love interest on The Muppet Show. This chicken with hay fever is performed by veteran Muppet performer, Jerry Nelson, and is seen frequently on The Muppet Show, but also makes appearances on the various...
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| x Scooter |
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Scooter is a bespectacled character from The Muppet Show who was the troupe's backstage "gofer". He was originally performed by Richard Hunt.
He is orange with a darker orange sprout of hair. In keeping with the jokes about bespectacled Muppets such...
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| x Rowlf the Dog |
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Rowlf the Dog is a Muppet character, a scruffy brown dog of indeterminate breed with a rounded black nose and long floppy ears. He was created (and originally performed and voiced) by Jim Henson.
Rowlf is the Muppet Theatre's resident pianist (as...
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Sam “Samuel” the Eagle is a character from the syndicated television show The Muppet Show, performed by Frank Oz. The name "Sam" is probably derived from Uncle Sam. The Bald Eagle is the official symbol of the United States, and Sam's patriotic...
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| x Crazy Harry |
Crazy Harry was a Muppet with an explosives fixation, who appeared in The Muppet Show and was performed by Jerry Nelson. He had scruffy hair, an uncombed beard and huge baggy eyes. Early in season one, he played triangle with the pit band. He...
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| x Foo-Foo |
For other uses, see Foo-foo.
Foo-Foo is a fictional dog in The Muppet Show. He is a white poodle owned by Muppet diva Miss Piggy. She is very tender towards him, even to the point of sickly saccharine baby talk. In the first episode of Muppets...
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| x Sweetums |
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Sweetums is a large, hairy Muppet. His bulldog-like lower jaw, thick eyebrows, shabby brown shirt, and threatening expression belie his genial nature.
Sweetums first appeared on the television special The Frog Prince in 1971 as a witch's ogre. There...
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| x Dr. Julius Strangepork |
Dr. Julius Strangepork was a character on The Muppet Show. He was a Muppet pig, who most often appeared with Miss Piggy and Link Hogthrob in the recurring Pigs in Space skit, in which he was the science officer on the USS Swinetrek. He wore wire-rim...
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| x Rizzo the Rat |
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Rizzo the Rat is a Muppet, performed by Steve Whitmire. Rizzo first appeared in episode 418 of The Muppet Show, as one of a group of rats following Christopher Reeve around backstage. He can be seen mugging and reacting to practically every line of...
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| x Gonzo |
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Gonzo (aka Gonzo the Great) is a puppet character, one of Jim Henson's Muppets. He was developed and performed by Dave Goelz. The character made his first appearance in a 1970 Christmas special entitled "The Great Santa Claus Switch". Known as a ...
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| x Link Hogthrob |
Link Hogthrob was a fictional character, a Muppet pig on The Muppet Show. The character was that of a stereotypical leading man, with wavy blond hair, a manly cleft chin, and a high opinion of himself, but not much between the ears. Still, he was...
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| x Marvin Suggs |
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Marvin Suggs is a puppet musician in the world of Jim Henson's The Muppets, voiced by Frank Oz.
Marvin Suggs is a blue "whatnot" Muppet that wears a frilly, multicolored shirt. He is best known for "playing" an instrument known as a muppaphone, a...
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| x Lew Zealand |
Lew Zealand is a Muppet character, performed by Jerry Nelson, that has an obsession for throwing fish. His thrown fish are unique in that they return to him once thrown. In the 1984 movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, he appears at Scooter's job at a...
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| x Annie Sue |
Annie Sue Pig is a puppet character on The Muppet Show. Annie Sue first appeared in the background during the second season, where she appeared in a group of hip Muppets. At the time, she had a pink wig instead of the yellow curls that she later...
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| x Beauregard |
Beauregard (Beau or Bo) is a Muppet from The Muppet Show. He is a back-stage janitor. He tries to be helpful, but his dimwitted efforts frequently result in disaster. He first appeared in Episode 310 of The Muppet Show. His slow wit is often preyed...
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| x Beaker |
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Beaker is a Muppet character from The Muppet Show. He is the shy long-suffering assistant of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, and is likewise named for a piece of laboratory equipment. Before the second season of The Muppet Show, Bunsen Honeydew worked alone on...
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| x Dr. Bunsen Honeydew |
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Dr. Bunsen Honeydew is a Muppet from The Muppet Show, performed by Dave Goelz. He is a bald, bespectacled, lab-coated scientist who would do periodic science segments from "Muppet Labs, where the future is being made today." The muppet has no eyes,...
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| x Uncle Deadly |
Uncle Deadly is a blue, dragon-like monster also known as the Phantom of The Muppet Show.
Although he made his first appearance alongside Vincent Price on episode 119 of The Muppet Show, Uncle Deadly did not receive his proper introduction until...
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| x The Muppet Newsman |
The Newsman is the weary, bespectacled Muppet News Flash anchor on The Muppet Show, debuting in the second episode. The Newsman always tried to deliver the news with accuracy, but was visibly perplexed on camera by the day's latest bizarre story or...
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| x Floyd Pepper | ||
| x Janice | ||
| x Dr. Teeth | ||
| x Animal | ||
| x Waldorf | ||
| x Statler | ||
| x Pops | ||
| x Lips | ||
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