Caroll Spinney, Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch actor, Dead at 85
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Source: NPR
Caroll Spinney, Who Played Big Bird And Oscar On 'Sesame Street,' Dies At 85
The Sesame Workshop said Spinney had died at home in Connecticut, and that he had long lived with dystonia, a disorder that causes involuntary muscle contractions.
"Caroll and Big Bird are very similar in their genuine niceness and sweetness and lovingness," said Joan Ganz Conney, co-founder of the Sesame Workshop said in a video tribute to Spinney last year. "He's just so respectful and so nice to all the kids, and all that comes across in Big Bird."
At a celebration for the show's 15th anniversary in 1984, Muppet-master Jim Henson recounted how he and Spinney had met in August 1969 at a puppetry festival in Salt Lake City.
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/08/786115746/caroll-spinney-who-played-big-bird-and-oscar-on-sesame-street-dies-at-85
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RIP to someone who was truly a legend and touched the lives of children all over the world!
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He was one of the few originals still around. He made it to their 50th anniversary though.
R.I.P.
