Caroll Spinney has played one of the most iconic characters on American television for over 45 years, but he knows you probably don't know his name.
The puppeteer, 81, has voiced and provided the movements for Sesame Street's Big Bird since the show hit the air in 1969.
And now his story is being told in the new documentary I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story.
"They had already made one successful documentary and someone suggested my story," Spinney tells People of being pitched by the Sesame Street team to the filmmakers. "They didn't know who Caroll Spinney was, which is...
The puppeteer, 81, has voiced and provided the movements for Sesame Street's Big Bird since the show hit the air in 1969.
And now his story is being told in the new documentary I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story.
"They had already made one successful documentary and someone suggested my story," Spinney tells People of being pitched by the Sesame Street team to the filmmakers. "They didn't know who Caroll Spinney was, which is...
- 5/15/2015
- by Patrick Gomez, @PatrickGomezLA
- People.com - TV Watch
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