Caroll Spinney

Also known as Caroll Edwin Spinney, Ed Spinney

American puppeteer (1933–2019)

Person · Open Library

Works: 5

Top works

Scram! Don't Bother Me!
I'm Ready to Read Sesame Street Big Bird
How to Be a Grouch
The wisdom of Big Bird (and the dark genius of Oscar the Grouch)
How to be a grouch, by Oscar the Grouch

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Acting · Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.

Caroll Edwin Spinney (sometimes credited as Carroll Spinney or Ed Spinney; December 26, 1933 – December 9, 2019) was an American puppeteer most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the children's television show Sesame Street.

Known for

Jerry Nelson: A Celebratory Birthday Animatic — Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)2022
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street — Self2021
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration — Self / Big Bird2019
Sesame Street: 50 Years and Counting — Big Bird2019
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like — Self2018
Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas — Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch (voice)2016
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story — Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch / Self

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Article

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.

Early life