Caroll Spinney, the longtime "Sesame Street" puppeteer who played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, died Sunday at age 85, Sesame Workshop confirmed. Watch Party Newsletter Best TV shows of 2025 📺 ...

Big Bird reads to Connor Scott and Tiffany Jiao during a taping of Sesame Street in New York, April 10, 2008. Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who has played Big Bird on "Sesame Street" is retiring ...

Caroll Spinney, the big-hearted Muppeteer who played 'Sesame Street' character Big Bird for almost a half-century, died at 85. Skip to main content Plus Icon Click to expand the Mega Menu ...

Caroll Spinney, who puppeteered and voiced Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, is retiring from "Sesame Street" after 50 years. He has been part of the show since its inception in 1969. (He even met ...

Caroll Spinney‘s time as Big Bird is about to come to an end. For almost 50 years, Spinney has played and voiced the lovable yellow bird on Sesame Street (and his efforts were documented in the ...

Indeed, Big Bird — that towering, yellow-feathered 6-year-old — has been calling Sesame Street home for four decades, ever since the show premiered on Nov. 10, 1969.

Caroll Spinney, who played Sesame Street's Big Bird as well as Oscar the Grouch character since the premiere episode in 1969, is retiring.

Indeed, Big Bird — that towering, yellow-feathered 6-year-old — has been calling Sesame Street home for four decades, ever since the show premiered on Nov. 10, 1969.

But, of course, on Sesame Street, Big Bird is the big game, arguably the show’s most iconic character. Landing the part has made Vogel, who later married the girlfriend who showed him the ...

A heartless robber stole an enormous Big Bird costume from a town's local Sesame Street circus. According to a report from ABC Radio Adelaide, the unidentified criminal stole the nearly 7ft-tall ...

The widespread attention surrounding Big Bird since Wednesday night’s debate is proof that the newly politicized “Sesame Street” character has bipartisan appeal, generating a connection in ...