His creations are known around the world. Now the man behind the Muppets is getting a retrospective moment in the spotlight in the new documentary Jim Henson Idea Man, now streaming on Disney+. Henson ...

Ron Howard wants to take you inside the mind of Jim Henson with the new documentary Jim Henson Idea Man. It’s out Friday on Disney+ and looks at the life of the Muppets creator, from his early days ...

American puppeteer and filmmaker Jim Henson (1936 - 1990) with his best-known Muppet character, Kermit the Frog, January 1984 (Photo Credit: Frank Edwards | Fotos International | Archive Photos via ...

Jim Henson modernized the age-old art of puppetry by using foam rubber to coat the puppets’ limbs. Previously, most TV puppets were made of carved wood. But Henson believed that foam rubber and cloth ...

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.' ...

There’s one salient fact about Jim Henson that even most of us longtime Muppet mavens were unfamiliar with prior to Brian Jay Jones’s 2013 biography — and which now becomes the most important point of ...

The Jim Henson Company hosted its first official auction on Tuesday where it sold $2.6 million worth of items from several films and TV series, including the 1986 movie "Labyrinth" and the muppet TV ...

Jim Henson's family is giving the statue to the center, which holds the world's largest collection of Henson puppets.

The cheery muppet donned a tiny cap and gown to inspire students at the University of Maryland. “Life is like a movie. Write your own ending,” he said. By Isabella Kwai At IBM, he hired a young Jim ...

American puppeteer and filmmaker Jim Henson (1936 – 1990) with his best-known Muppet character, Kermit the Frog, January 1984 (Frank Edwards/Fotos International/Archive Photos/Getty Images) The Jim ...

Danny Seagren, a Jim Henson puppeteer who played Big Bird on Sesame Street and portrayed the first live-action Spider-Man on The Electric Company, has died age 81. Seagren died on November 10, ...