| LC control no. | no 97004756 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Spinney, Caroll |
| Variant(s) | Spinney, Carroll Spinney, Caroll Edwin, 1933-2019 Spinney, Ed, 1933-2019 Spinney, Carol Edwin, 1933-2019 |
| Located | Woodstock (Conn.) |
| Birth date | 1933-12-26 |
| Death date | 2019-12-08 |
| Place of birth | Waltham (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Connecticut |
| Field of activity | Puppet television programs Puppet films Puppets Commercial art |
| Affiliation | Sesame Street (Television program) |
| Profession or occupation | Puppeteers Commercial artists |
| Found in | Sing the alphabet, p1996: insert (Caroll Spinney) The hare that ran away, 1980, c1977: credits (Caroll E. Spinney) LC in OCLC, Jan. 24, 1997 (hdg.: Spinney, Carroll; no usage given) I am Big Bird: the Carroll Spinney story, c2014: (Caroll Spinney, puppeteer, the subject of the film) Wikipedia, August 14, 2015: (Caroll Edwin Spinney is an American puppteer and cartoonist, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street. He is sometimes creditd as Carroll Spinney or Ed Spinney; born December 26, 1933, in Waltham, Massachusetts; 1955-1969, worked as a puppeteer, commercial artist, and animator; in 1969, joined the Muppeteers and Sesame Street; he resides in Woodstock, Connecticut) Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 9, 2019: (in obituary dated Dec. 8, 2019: Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who gave life to Big Bird, the towering yellow avian of TV's "Sesame Street," died Dec. 8 at his home in Connecticut. He was 85. Carol Edwin Spinney was born in Waltham, Mass., on Dec. 26, 1933--the day after Christmas, hence "Carol." He later changed the spelling of his name) |
| Associated language | eng |
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