- Awards
- 11 wins & 8 nominations
Known for
8.1
TV Series
- Big Bird
- Oscar the Grouch
- Oscar
- Granny Bird
- Bruno the Trashman
- Anything Muppets
- Bruno
- Oscar The Grouch
- Bennett Snerf
- Cookie Monster
- Train Rider
- Various Monsters
- Adrienne
- Annoucer
- Beautiful Day Monster
- Big Bird & Oscar
- Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
- Bird Bird
- Brother
- Farmer
- Floating Face
- Fluffy the Elephant
- Hathaway
- Hippie
- Ira
- King
- Lavender Hippie
- Lefty
- Lefty the Salesman
- Little Boy & Blue Man
- Monotone
- Monotones Vocalist
- Mother (Purple)
- Mr. Rocco
- Mrs. Watson
- Oscar the Grocuh
- Pumpkin Hippie
- Purple Boy
- Purple Hippie
- Rubber Ball
- Sam the Robot
- Sister
- Teacher
- Voiceover
Credits
Actor
- 1969
- 1969–2023
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019
- 2016
- 2016
- 2016
- 2012–2015
- 2015
- 2015
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014
- Sesame Street: Elmo's World - All About Animals
- Big Bird
- Oscar
- 2014
- 2008–2014
Writer
Additional Crew
Personal details
- Official site
- Alternative names
- Big Bird
- Height
- 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Born
- Died
- December 8, 2019
- Woodstock, Connecticut, USA(long illness)
- SpousesDebra SpinneyJune 4, 1973 - December 8, 2019 (his death)
- Children
- Child
- Other worksHe voiced Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for the audio version of Liza Alexander's book "Big Bird Meets the Orchestra" in the "Sesame Street: Learn About Music" series.
- Publicity listings
Did you know
- TriviaHe 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.
- 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!
- TrademarkPerformer of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
- Nickname
- Spin
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