Big Bird Puppeteer

Caroll Spinney is a puppeteer. He works on a famous children’s TV show called “Sesame Street.” He plays the characters of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. He works on the show for 50 years. He dies this year at age 85.
In 2015, Spinney stops working as Big Bird. He has a physical condition. It makes it hard for him to move. In 2018, he stops working on the show.
A representative for “Sesame Street” talks about Spinney. She says that he is probably in thousands of episodes for the show.

Caroll Spinney was a puppeteer on the famous children’s TV show “Sesame Street.” He played the characters of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. He worked with the show for 50 years and he died recently at age 85.
In 2015, Spinney stopped working as Big Bird due to physical constraints from a neurological movement disorder. In 2018, he retired. A representative for “Sesame Street” said that Spinney probably was in thousands of episodes.