Caroll Spinney is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 26 december 1933 at Waltham (USA)
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Birth name Caroll Edwin SpinneyNationality USABirth 26 december 1933 at Waltham (
USA)
Death 8 december 2019 (at 85 years)
Caroll Edwin Spinney (born December 26, 1933) is an American puppeteer and cartoonist, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street. He has sometimes been credited as Carroll Spinney or Ed Spinney.
Biography
Spinney is married. He and his wife Debra reside in Woodstock, Connecticut. He has three children from his first marriage to Janice Spinney and four grandchildren.
On a March 2014 appearance of NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Spinney revealed that he and Waylon Jennings had been close friends for many years.
Spinney and his wife regularly holiday in the West of Ireland. Spinney performs a free show as Oscar the Grouch for the local schoolchildren during their Christmas show each year.
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