Lisa D’Apolito's doc covers the many highs and lows of the ventriloquist and puppeteer's life and work, finding plenty of ...

The documentary "Shari & Lamb Chop," in theaters Friday, details the career of ventriloquist Shari Lewis. Her daughter, ...

Tennessee's most famous puppeteer pulls at your heart strings. Jessica Bliss. [email protected]. The colored patches on Spotty, the beloved — but aged — hand puppet, have long worn away.

There’s never been a creative artist quite like Jim Henson. The Mississippi-born Henson was arguably the world’s most famous puppeteer, but he was much more than that. A cartoonist, actor ...

The most famous of these—and the one that looks least staged—is An Unusual Concert (1973), a parody of variety shows that the Moscow State Puppet Theater first performed in 1946.

There are also masks he created for a famous production of Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo” at New York’s Lincoln Center in 1967 and a puppet he made for an early Sam Shepard play.

Caroll Spinney, puppeteer. Born: 26 December, 1933 in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. Died: 8 December 2019 in Woodstock, Connecticut, aged 85.