Caroll Spinney played the iconic canary for 50 years. Pic credit: CBS This Morning / YouTube Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer behind Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, died yesterday at his ...

FILE - In this April 10, 2008 file photo, Michelle Hickey, a Muppet wrangler adjusts a book for Big Bird, voiced by Carroll Spinney, so he can read to Connor Scott during a taping of Sesame Street in ...

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Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who played Big Bird on the show for nearly 50 years, has died at age 85, Sesame Workshop announced in a statement Sunday. According to the statement, Spinney, who also ...

The puppeteer behind beloved Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch died Sunday at 85. The longtime puppeteer behind beloved Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney, has died at ...

Caroll Spinney, the longtime Sesame Street puppeteer who voiced the characters of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for nearly 50 years, died Sunday at the age of 85. The Sesame Workshop confirmed that ...

…it was really the massive — and still ongoing — outpouring of love from the man’s massive fan base that stood out among the reactions, condolences, and commendations. Carroll Spinney's death will hit ...

Just hearing the name Big Bird sends many of us swirling down memory lane. Perhaps you remember watching the beloved bird on Sesame Street with your mom or your best ...

Sesame Street has lost a legend. As RadarOnline.com has learned, Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who played Big Bird and voiced Oscar the Grouch for nearly 50 years, has died. Spinney died on Sunday, ...

Allow me to explain. At the start of my formal education, classmates called me The Jolly Green Giant. And then five days before my seventh birthday, everything changed. The first episode of “Sesame ...

Caroll Spinney, the actor and puppeteer who portrayed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street over five decades, died Sunday at age 85. The Sesame Workshop said Spinney had died at home in ...

Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer behind the iconic Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch died Sunday at the age of 85. He passed away at his Connecticut home after living with dystonia, ...