Danny Seagren, the puppeteer who often stood in for Caroll Spinney as Sesame Street ’s Big Bird and was the first ever ...
Jim Henson trained him to be a puppeteer, and he also worked on ‘Sesame Street’ and appeared as Big Bird on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show.’ ...
Danny Seagren, the Jim Henson -trained puppeteer who played Big Bird on Sesame Street and portrayed the first-ever live-action Spider-Man on the kids’ show The Electric Company, has died. He was 81.