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.

The most famous ventriloquist of the 20th century was Edgar Bergen. Bergen taught himself ventriloquism, and commissioned a puppet (called a “dummy” for ventriloquists) he named Charlie McCarthy.

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.

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

Conduct a Google search for famous puppeteers and, invariably, almost all the names on the list will be men’s, with one exception: Shari Lewis, who performed famously with her puppet Lamb Chop.