Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer behind Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, died yesterday at his home in Connecticut. Spinney, who began puppeteering in 1955, played the iconic Big Bird from the character’s inception in 1969 until 2018. Predictably, for someone who touched so many people’s childhoods over a span of five decades, the
Caroll Spinney, the Sesame Street puppeteer behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, has died. The voice actor was 85-years-old and left a legacy that will continue to impact children for generations. Sesame Workshop, the non-profit behind the television show, broke the sad news today on the website. Caroll died on Saturday at his home
Sometimes an entertainment news item can gut you unexpectedly. So it is today after it was announced that Sesame Street, the children’s television show that came on the air in 1969, will lose the original puppeteer and voice of two key characters, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. Caroll Spinney, who had voiced and controlled the