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Also known as Kevin Jeffrey Clash

American puppeteer (born 1960)

Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • Elmo's Christmas Countdown [DVD] [Import]
  • Plaza Sésamo
  • Elmo's world
  • Flowers, bananas & more!
  • Elmo's ABC

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Country
GB
Active from
1976
Active to
1986

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
986
Total plays
3,329

Kevin Jeffrey Clash (born September 17, 1960) is an American voice actor and puppeteer whose characters include Elmo, Baby Sinclair, Clifford, Splinter, and Hoots the Owl. He currently serves as Sesame Street Muppet Captain and co-executive producer. In the fall of 2006, Clash released an autobiography titled My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kevin+Clash">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,746x

  2. NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 60,317x

  3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,397x

  4. <i>Coot</i>: model-building tools for molecular graphics

    · 2004 · cited 29,222x

  5. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 23,379x

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Key facts

Born
Kevin Jeffrey Clash , ( 1960-09-17 ) September 17, 1960 (age 65) , Baltimore , Maryland , U.S.
Education
Dundalk High School
Occupations
Puppeteer director producer
Years active
1978–2012 2018–present
Spouse
Genia Clash ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1986 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2003 ) ​

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Encyclopedic overview

Kevin Jeffrey Clash (born September 17, 1960) is an American puppeteer, director and producer best known for puppeteering Elmo on Sesame Street from 1985 to 2012. He also performed puppets for Labyrinth, Dinosaurs, Oobi, and various Muppet productions.

Clash developed an interest in puppetry at an early age and, in his teen years, performed for local television children's shows in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. He joined the cast of Captain Kangaroo in the early 1980s and began performing on Sesame Street in 1984. He was the fifth puppeteer to perform Elmo, who became his signature character, and he also served as an executive producer and director for the show. Clash worked in various productions with The Jim Henson Company and occasionally on other projects. Clash's autobiography, My Life as a Furry Red Monster, was published in 2006; he was later the subject of the documentary Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kevin Clash” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.