In this 2008 file photo, Michelle Hickey, a Muppet wrangler adjusts a book for Big Bird, ... The Caroll Spinney Story,” which celebrates this “Sesame Street” puppet master who, ...

It looks like Big Bird and Elmo have some friends who are down to demonstrate. Supporters of public funding for PBS have planned a “Million Puppet March” for D.C. on November 3rd. The event on ...

The late Caroll Spinney voiced and puppeteered Big Bird, who turns 55 this year (but is always 6 years old). ... Spinney shows and describes how he managed to operate the gigantic puppet.

That’s why Romney’s Big Bird comment last month struck so many as off-key. It was an echo of a long-forgotten and largely irrelevant culture war. Photograph by PRNewsFoto/Disney D23/AP.

Spinney got his big break at a puppet convention in Utah. Henson, already famous for The Muppets, was in attendance. He invited Spinney to come work for him in New York.

Big Bird star Caroll Spinney tells all! — -- After more than 46 years as Big Bird, Caroll Spinney is telling his long and illustrious story in "I Am Big Bird," a documentary hitting theaters ...

Caroll Spinney, the man who played “Sesame Street” icon Big Bird for 50 years, died on Sunday at his Connecticut home at the age of 85. His passing was announced by Sesame Workshop.

In this 2008 file photo, Michelle Hickey, a Muppet wrangler adjusts a book for Big Bird, ... The Caroll Spinney Story,” which celebrates this “Sesame Street” puppet master who, ...