Caroll Spinney, the Glossary
Caroll Edwin Spinney (December 26, 1933 – December 8, 2019) was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author, artist and speaker, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street from its inception in 1969 until 2018.[1]
Table of Contents
89 relations: A Muppet Family Christmas, Acton, Massachusetts, Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, Australia, Between the Lions, Big Bird, Big Bird in China, Big Bird in Japan, Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake, Bolton, Boston, Boston Pops, Bozo the Clown, Cameo appearance, Canada, Cartoon, Chicago Tribune, China, Christmas, Comic strip, Connecticut, Darth Vader, Daytime Emmy Awards, Don't Eat the Pictures, Dystonia, Elmo's World, England, Eric Jacobson, Europe, Grammy Awards, Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration, Hartford Courant, Hollywood Squares, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story, Japan, Jim Henson, Judy Valentine, Jumble sale, Kermit Love, Las Vegas Valley, Massachusetts, Matt Vogel (puppeteer), Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Montclair Film, Moon, Mr. Hooper, Music recording certification, ... Expand index (39 more) »
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- People with dystonia
A Muppet Family Christmas
A Muppet Family Christmas is a Christmas musical television special starring Jim Henson's Muppets.
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Acton, Massachusetts
Acton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, approximately west-northwest of Boston along Massachusetts Route 2 west of Concord and about southwest of Lowell.
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Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School (ABRHS or simply AB) is an open-enrollment high school in Acton, Massachusetts, United States.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Between the Lions
Between the Lions is an American animated/live-action/puppet educational children's television series designed to promote reading.
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Big Bird
Big Bird is a Muppet character designed by Jim Henson and built by Kermit Love for the children's television show Sesame Street.
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Big Bird in China
Big Bird in China is a 1983 television special based on the children's television series Sesame Street produced by Children's Television Workshop and China Central Television.
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Big Bird in Japan
Big Bird in Japan is a television special by the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), that aired on NHK in late fall of 1988, and on PBS on January 16, 1989.
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Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake
Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake is a 1991 television special based on the children's television show Sesame Street.
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Bolton
Bolton (locally) is a town in Greater Manchester in England.
Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
Boston Pops
The Boston Pops is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in light classical and popular music.
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Bozo the Clown
Bozo the Clown, sometimes billed as "Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown", is a clown character created for children's entertainment, widely popular in the second half of the 20th century.
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Cameo appearance
A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo, is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Cartoon
A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
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Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Darth Vader
Darth Vader is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.
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Daytime Emmy Awards
The Daytime Emmy Awards, or Daytime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry.
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Don't Eat the Pictures
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or simply Don't Eat the Pictures) is a one-hour Sesame Street special that aired on PBS on November 16, 1983.
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Dystonia
Dystonia is a neurological hyperkinetic movement disorder in which sustained or repetitive muscle contractions occur involuntarily, resulting in twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal fixed postures.
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Elmo's World
Elmo's World is a segment that is shown at the end of the American children's television program Sesame Street which premiered on November 16, 1998, as part of a broader structural change to the show.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Eric Jacobson
Eric Jacobson (born January 15, 1971) is an American puppeteer. Caroll Spinney and Eric Jacobson are American puppeteers.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration
Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (also known as A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration: 50 Years of Hanna-Barbera) is a 1989 American live-action/animated television special written, directed and produced by Marshall Flaum, which premiered on TNT on July 17, 1989.
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Hartford Courant
The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.
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Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares (originally The Hollywood Squares) is an American game show in which two contestants compete in a game of tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes.
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,783 five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in the Los Angeles, California district of Hollywood.
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Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey is a 1993 American adventure comedy film and a remake of the 1963 film The Incredible Journey, which was based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Sheila Burnford.
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Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is the largest documentary festival in North America.
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I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story is a 2014 American documentary film about Caroll Spinney, the original performer of Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jim Henson
James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, animator, actor, and filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Caroll Spinney and Jim Henson are American puppeteers.
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Judy Valentine
Judy Valentine (May 15, 1923 – August 26, 2022) was an American singer and children's television actress.
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Jumble sale
A jumble sale (UK), bring and buy sale (Australia, also UK) or rummage sale (U.S and Canada) is an event at which second hand goods are sold, usually by an institution such as a local Boys' Brigade Company, Scout group, Girlguiding group or church, as a fundraising or charitable effort.
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Kermit Love
Kermit Ernest Hollingshead Love (August 7, 1916 – June 21, 2008) was an American puppet maker, puppeteer, costume designer, and actor in children's television and on Broadway. Caroll Spinney and Kermit Love are American puppeteers.
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Las Vegas Valley
The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Matt Vogel (puppeteer)
Matthew James Vogel (born October 6, 1970) is an American puppeteer, actor and director known for his work with Sesame Workshop and The Muppets Studio. Caroll Spinney and Matt Vogel (puppeteer) are American puppeteers.
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (sometimes shortened to Mister Rogers) is an American half-hour educational children's television series that ran from 1968 to 2001.
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Montclair Film
Montclair Film is a nonprofit that organizes the annual Montclair Film Festival (MFF).
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Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.
Mr. Hooper
Mr.
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Music recording certification
Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.
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National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) is an American professional service organization founded in 1955 for "the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry".
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (also known as Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian or just Night at the Museum 2) is a 2009 American fantasy comedy film written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, produced by Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan and Shawn Levy and directed by Levy.
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Oscar the Grouch
Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character created by Jim Henson and Jon Stone for the PBS/HBO children's television program Sesame Street.
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Out to Lunch (TV program)
Out to Lunch is a prime-time television special that was broadcast on December 10, 1974, on ABC, from 9 to 10pm ET.
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Punch and Judy
Punch and Judy is a traditional puppet show featuring Mr.
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Puppeteer
A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object called a puppet to create the illusion that the puppet is alive.
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Sesame Street
Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.
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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (or simply Follow That Bird) is a 1985 American musical road comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis and written by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss.
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Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration is a 2019 musical television special to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sesame Street.
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Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster is a Sesame Street video game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in conjunction with Sesame Workshop.
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Shalom Sesame
Shalom Sesame is an anglicized variation of Rechov Sumsum (רחוב סומסום), the Israeli version of Sesame Street, which originally aired in 1983.
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Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce
"Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce" is the name of an episode on the children's television program Sesame Street.
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Supernatural (American TV series)
Supernatural is an American television series created by Eric Kripke.
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland is a 1999 American musical adventure comedy film directed by Gary Halvorson in his feature film debut.
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The Electric Company
The Electric Company is an American educational children's television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW, now known as Sesame Workshop).
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The Flip Wilson Show
The Flip Wilson Show is an hour-long variety show that originally aired in the US on NBC from September 17, 1970, to June 27, 1974.
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The Great Muppet Caper
The Great Muppet Caper is a 1981 musical heist comedy film directed by Jim Henson (in his feature directorial debut) and the second theatrical film featuring the Muppets.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The Muppet Movie
The Muppet Movie is a 1979 musical road comedy film directed by James Frawley and produced by Jim Henson, and the first theatrical film to feature the Muppets.
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The Muppet Show
The Muppet Show is a variety sketch comedy television series created by Jim Henson and starring the Muppets.
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The Muppets
The Muppets are an American ensemble cast of puppet characters known for an absurdist, surrealist, burlesque, and self-referential style of variety-sketch comedy.
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The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years is a one-hour special starring Jim Henson's Muppets.
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The New Jewish Home
The New Jewish Home (formerly Jewish Home Lifecare among other prior names) is an American nonprofit older adult health care system based in New York City.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune is a newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Three Little Kittens
"Three Little Kittens" is an English language nursery rhyme, probably with roots in the British folk tradition.
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Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper.
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TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution.
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Western Publishing
Western Publishing, also known as Western Printing and Lithographing Company, was a Racine, Wisconsin, firm responsible for publishing the Little Golden Books.
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What's My Line?
What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States, between 1950 and 1967, on CBS.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
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Woodstock, Connecticut
Woodstock is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States.
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Zhima Jie
Zhima Jie is the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street.
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33rd Daytime Emmy Awards
The 33rd Daytime Emmy Awards, commemorating excellence in American daytime programming from 2005, was held on Friday, April 28, 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
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See also
Animators from Massachusetts
- Andrew Stanton
- Caroll Spinney
- Hal Sutherland
- Loren Bouchard
- Max Gilardi
- Ruthie Tompson
- Shamus Culhane
- Ted Sears
People with dystonia
- Ben Beach
- Caroll Spinney
- Christopher Nolan (author)
- Ed Genson
- Hannah Dodd
- Ian Kent
- James Muecke
- Jamie Dupree
- Joaquin Farias
- Layla Love
- Lewis Seiden
- Liz Nugent
- Louis de Bernières
- Monica Boggioni
- Neil Marcus
- R. A. MacAvoy
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Rosemary Little
- Scott Adams
- Shirley Sargent
- Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson
- Tamara Nowitzki
- Virginia M. Zabriskie
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroll_Spinney
Also known as Carol Spinney, Caroll Edwin Spinney, Carrol Spinney, Carroll Spinney, Ed Spinney.
, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Oscar the Grouch, Out to Lunch (TV program), Punch and Judy, Puppeteer, Sesame Street, Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, Shalom Sesame, Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce, Supernatural (American TV series), The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, The Electric Company, The Flip Wilson Show, The Great Muppet Caper, The Hollywood Reporter, The Muppet Movie, The Muppet Show, The Muppets, The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years, The New Jewish Home, The New York Times, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Washington Post, Three Little Kittens, Toronto Star, TV Guide, United States, United States Air Force, Utah, Waltham, Massachusetts, Western Publishing, What's My Line?, White House, Woodstock, Connecticut, Zhima Jie, 33rd Daytime Emmy Awards.