Rolling Stone

Caroll Spinney, Big Bird Puppeteer on ‘Sesame Street,’ Dead at 85

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 ...
Yahoo

Caroll Spinney, Big Bird’s Longtime Puppeteer, Dies at 85

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caroll Spinney, the man who played “Sesame Street” icon Big Bird for 50 years, died on Sunday at his Connecticut home at the age ...
Reuters

Puppeteer who performed Sesame Street's Big Bird, Oscar, dies at 85

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who brought boyish vulnerability to Big Bird, the towering yellow-plumed character, during 50 years on the groundbreaking children's television show ...
AV Club

There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for Big Bird's unfolding horror

“Uh oh! Does anyone know how to make me big Big Bird again?” the official Twitter/X account of Sesame Street’s Big Bird posted on January 24. Thus began Big Bird’s own Metamorphosis, in which the ...
Yahoo

'We're All Growing Up Together': As Sesame Street Turns 50, Big Bird Is Still Making Friends Everywhere He Goes

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are perks to being an 8-ft.-tall canary. Everyone recognizes you and wants to be your friend. On the other hand, our world ...
CNN

Caroll Spinney, Big Bird actor, flying ‘Sesame Street’ coop

“Big Bird brought me so many places, opened my mind and nurtured my soul,” Spinney said in a statement. “And I plan to be an ambassador for Sesame Workshop for many years to come. After all, we’re a ...
New York Post

How Big Bird escaped death on the doomed Challenger shuttle

Throughout his 46 years playing Big Bird on “Sesame Street,” Caroll Spinney has always stood apart from the show’s other puppeteers. For one thing, the full-body costume means he can’t easily interact ...
Page Six

Caroll Spinney, puppeteer and voice behind Big Bird, dead at 85

Sesame Street's Big Bird and puppeteer Caroll Spinney participate in the ceremonial lighting of the Empire State Building in honor of Sesame Street's 50th anniversary on Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, in New ...
Business Insider

Big Bird just shared the most meaningful moment of his career and it will probably make you cry

During Caroll Spinney's 46 years playing Big Bird on "Sesame Street," he has touched the lives of millions of children. During his AMA on Reddit this afternoon, Spinney was asked about the most ...
CNN

Caroll Spinney, the Sesame Street puppeteer behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, has died

“Caroll Spinney’s contributions to Sesame Street are countless. He not only gave us Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, he gave so much of himself as well,” Sesame Street co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney said ...
NPR

At 81, The Man Behind Big Bird Sees 'No Reason To Quit'

Big Bird, the towering yellow bird with confetti feathers from Sesame Street, will eternally be 6 years old, but his character is nearly 50. The man behind Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, is 81 — and has no ...
The Atlantic

Mitt Romney vs. Big Bird: Birders Fight Back

Move over birthers and truthers. There's a new constituency alighting on the colorful fringes of the presidential contest, and taking up a seat on its stoop. Defenders of Big Bird, the giant yellow ...