Whatever you consider Sesame Street’s Count, man or monster, he’s got a simple mission: to count things. It is his drive, his base need, the source of his delightful full name: Count Von Count.

Over the next decade, “Count Von Count,” as he was officially identified, became a Sesame Street staple, evolving throughout the years into a gentler fanged monster who lives inside a Gothic ...

Jerry Nelson, who voiced many characters on Sesame Street for more than 40 years, has died. Nelson is perhaps best known because he brought Count von Count, the purple, friendly vampire ...