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Shari Lewis (born Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz; [citation needed] January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998) was a Peabody-winning American ventriloquist, puppeteer, children's entertainer, television show host, dancer, singer, actress, author, and symphony conductor. [1]
Mallory Hurwitz Lewis (née Tarcher; born July 8, 1972) is an American writer, television producer, ventriloquist, and puppeteer. She currently puppeteers Lamb Chop (a sock puppet created by her mother, Shari Lewis ).
This marked Lewis' return to television after about 15 years (following the BBC version of The Shari Lewis Show in 1975). Lamb Chop's Play-Along was shot in Canada, first in Burnaby, British Columbia and then at the CBC Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia. [2] The series honored Lewis' father, college professor Abraham Hurwitz, who died in 1981.
Shari Lewis (right) entertains George, Earl of St. Andrews, and his sister Lady Helen Windsor, children of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, with her puppet Lamb Chop in 1971. (Photo by Keystone/Getty ...
Shari Lewis and her trusty sock puppet, Lamb Chop, entertained generations of young fans. Her daughter, Mallory Lewis, is carrying on her mother's legacy.
Lewis died Dec. 11, 2020. He was entitled to burial in the Veterans Cemetery, but it took more than three years of fighting bureaucratic inflexibility for his friends to make that happen. When ...
Lamb Chop is a sock puppet anthropomorphic sheep created by the puppeteer and ventriloquist Shari Lewis. The character first appeared during Lewis's guest appearance on Captain Kangaroo in March 1956 and later appeared on Hi Mom (1957–1959), a local morning show that aired on WRCA-TV in New York , New York.
Smith died of cancer four weeks later on July 30 in a hospital in Hendersonville, North Carolina, three days before puppeteer Shari Lewis, whose show coincidentally had taken over the time slot which Howdy Doody had previously occupied.