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.

Danny Seagren, the Jim Henson -trained puppeteer who played Big Bird on Sesame Street and portrayed the first-ever ...

At the end of October, Kermit The Frog of the Muppets hopped across the pond to Paris—but he wasn’t his usual buoyant self. Conceptual artist Alex Da Corte’s Kermit The Frog, Even, a 60-foot, ...

Some of Jim Henson's most memorable creations go under the hammer in California next week, with the first US auction of puppets and memorabilia from the late entertainer's decades-long career.

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On Nov. 20, 1958, American puppeteers Jim Henson and his future wife Jane Nebel established a business called Muppets Inc. That company created beloved characters including Kermit ...

Coventry City Council has moved a step closer to knocking down the former swimming baths in Fairfax Street but it could be years before the bulldozers move in. And in addition to the annual £400,000 ...

His passion for the natural world was sparked at age five in 1963 when he spent hours exploring the woods and creek behind his family home in Annandale. Scott C. Plein, chair of the Board of Directors ...