The very first movie based on one of the Sesame Street characters is Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, which puts the spotlight on actor Caroll Spinney's beloved, fowl character ...

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Caroll [Spinney, who played Big Bird] was an artist, and so I had him draw those pictures of Will. In the final scene, Big Bird is hanging Mr. Hooper’s picture in his nest area. And I wrote it ...

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, according to the ...

But it was a chance meeting with Caroll Spinney, the late puppeteer who voiced Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for almost 50 years, that truly shaped Bland and her dedication to her craft.

After delighting generations of children, “Sesame Street’s” Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney died Dec. 8 at 85. “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” co-star Georgia Engel ...

Sesame Street's Big Bird puppeteer died aged 85. Caroll Spinney was also know for his role as Oscar the Grouch and was described as an "artistic genius". Ron Saunders, the former Aston Villa ...

Later in life Spinney revealed more of himself to the public, appearing in the 2014 documentary film I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story, directed by Dave LaMattina and Chad N Walker.

The two were married in real life. Another voice of our childhood, Big Bird, left us, too: Puppeteer Caroll Spinney, through that lovable Bird, and even Oscar the Grouch, lovable in his own way ...

To honor his death, he became the first black lawmaker to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol.Puppeteer Caroll Spinney died Dec. 8 at the age of 85. He voiced and operated the “Sesame Street ...