Caroll Spinney Net Worth

Caroll Spinney's Quotes

• [on his lifelong love of performing puppetry] Somehow I was shy enough to not care about being seen. And I figured if could ever get on a TV show with a character that I enjoyed doing, it might even get famous. And voila!

Interesting Facts about Caroll Spinney

1. Under the name Ed Spinney, Caroll Spinney animated a series of black and white cartoons called "Crazy Crayon".
2. He made an appearance as Big Bird on an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968). Before the show was taped, Fred Rogers wanted to have him remove the Big Bird outfit on the show and discuss the inner workings of it. Spinney objected to this idea, saying that it was important to preserve the sense of wonder and magic that children have about Big Bird. Rogers agreed that Spinney was right, and, instead, Big Bird appeared on the show in a Neighborhood of Make-Believe segment.
3. Was the commencement speaker at Villanova University, in 2004.
4. He retired from acting on "Sesame Street" for the Public Broadcasting Service on October 18, 2018.
5. Met his 2nd wife Debra Spinney on the set of Sesame Street.
6. Caroll Spinney, puppeteer who gave life to Big Bird of 'Sesame Street", who also gave voice and motion to Oscar the Grouch, met Muppets creator Jim Hanson at a puppetry convention and first donned Big Birds 4,000 canary yellow feathers for the opening season of "Sesame Street" in 1969.
7. Spinney hand drew the picture of Mr. Hooper that has been a fixture of Big Bird's Nest since he first showed it off in the famous 1983 episode "Goodbye Mr. Hooper".
8. Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 21, 1994.
9. Caroll Spinney passed away on December 8, 2019, less than three weeks from what would have been his 86th birthday on December 26th.
10. He is buried at a local family cemetery in Woodstock, Connecticut.