Caroll Spinney
Caroll Spinney
Caroll Edwin Spinneyis an American puppeteer and cartoonist, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street. He has sometimes been credited as Carroll Spinney or Ed Spinney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth26 December 1933
CountryUnited States of America
along bid bird came child created goofy jim learning oscar script teaching useful
When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.