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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (or simply Follow That Bird) is a 1985 American family musical road comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis, and written by Tony Geiss and Judy Freudberg. Based on the children's television series Sesame Street created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett , it was the series' first theatrical feature ...
The first Muppet characters appeared in Sam and Friends, a Washington, D.C.–based show which was broadcast from 1955 to 1961. Kermit the Frog was one of the show's regulars, and thus was one of Henson's first Muppet creations. [1] The characters became a household name after their appearance in the children's television program Sesame Street. [1]
Despite popular rumor, Love was not the namesake of Kermit the Frog; the character was created and named in 1955, before Henson met Love in the 1960s. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Though he also worked on The Muppet Show and The Muppet Movie , Sesame Street was Love's domain, along with Caroly Wilcox , as one of the key supervisors.
Steven Lawrence Whitmire (born September 24, 1959) is an American puppeteer and voice actor, known primarily for his work on The Muppets and Sesame Street.Beginning his involvement with the Muppets in 1978, [3] Whitmire inherited the roles of Ernie and Kermit the Frog after Jim Henson's death in 1990; he performed the characters until 2014 and 2016, respectively. [4]
A Muppet Family Christmas – Mokey Fraggle, Additional Muppets; Billy Bunny's Animal Songs – Billy Bunny's Mother, Frog, Gopher; John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together – Additional Muppets; Labyrinth – Goblins (puppeteer) Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – Grouch Diner Patron, Anything Muppet Girl; The Christmas Toy ...
Hunt was born in The Bronx, New York. [3] The family eventually moved to Closter, New Jersey some years later. [4]Hunt came from a family of performers. [2] As a student in middle school and high school, he put on puppet shows for local children, and was a fan of the then-fledgling Muppets. [2]
This is a list of the highest-grossing puppet films. Puppet films feature puppets as lead characters. ... Follow that Bird: $13,961,370: 1985 [16] 16: Labyrinth:
Meehl worked on the last six shows of The Muppet Show. He then worked on Sesame Street, performing Barkley, Grundgetta, Telly Monster, and an early version of Elmo, among other characters. His work with Henson also included roles in the films, The Dark Crystal, The Muppets Take Manhattan and The Great Muppet Caper.