Caroll Spinney, the "Sesame Street" puppeteer behind legendary characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, has died, Sesame Workshop said Sunday. He was 85. Spinney had been living with dystonia ...

Caroll Spinney, the actor and puppeteer who portrayed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street over five decades, died Sunday at age 85. The Sesame Workshop said Spinney had died at home in ...

Caroll Spinney, who entertained children for nearly half a century as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on “Sesame Street,” died on Sunday at his home in Connecticut. He was 85. The legendary ...

Caroll Spinney, the person behind two pivotal Sesame Street characters, has died. He was 85.He voiced and operated the characters of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch from their inception in 1969 when ...

Caroll Spinney played the iconic canary for 50 years. Pic credit: CBS This Morning / YouTube Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer behind Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, died yesterday at ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Caroll Spinney, who gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on “Sesame Street,” died Sunday at the age of 85 at his home in Connecticut ...

The man in the feathered suit, Caroll Spinney, tells how Big Bird saved him suicide - and more stunning stories from "Sesame Street." (Left) Everett Collection, (right) Ron Asadorian Throughout ...

The Man Inside the Bird: Caroll Spinney and Filmmakers Look Back on 45 Years of 'Sesame Street' Got a Tip? Newsletters Open Menu Close News Film TV Awards ...

Along the way, classmates teased Spinney for his name, Caroll, and for “playing with dolls.” Some teased him for being gay, though he wasn’t. Even as Spinney recounts the story almost seven ...

“Caroll Spinney’s contributions to Sesame Street are countless. He not only gave us Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, he gave so much of himself as well,” Sesame Street co-founder Joan Ganz ...