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Rick Lyon is a Actor American born on 25 february 1958
Rick Lyon is an American puppeteer, actor, and puppet designer and builder. who has worked for the Jim Henson Company as one of the operators of Big Bird. He appeared on Broadway originating the roles of Trekkie Monster, Nicky, the blue Bad Idea Bear, and other characters in the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, a musical for which he designed and created all of the puppets. In the fall of 2005 he reprised his roles in the production of the show in Las Vegas for eight months before returning to the Broadway cast. Rick was a puppeteer on Sesame Street for 15 seasons, from 1987 to 2002. He also worked with Nickelodeon on the Stick Stickly project and on the Me + My Friends pilot. He was a lead puppeteer for the first season of Comedy Central's television program Crank Yankers. Lyon's company The Lyon Puppets, maintains a large permanent workshop outside New York City in New Jersey. In addition to building all of the Broadway and Las Vegas Avenue Q puppets, the company has built puppets for the original West End production of Avenue Q in London, the US national tour, and international productions in Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Switzerland and Germany, France, and China. Rick frequently coaches actors in puppetry for productions of Avenue Q for which he provides puppets.
He studied theater at Penn State University and puppetry at the Institute of Professional Puppetry Arts in Connecticut and the Institut International de la Marionnette in France.
Rick has one daughter from his former marriage to actress Tonya Dixon.
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Rick Lyon is an American puppeteer, actor, and puppet designer and builder. who has worked for the Jim Henson Company as one of the operators of Big Bird. He appeared on Broadway originating the roles of Trekkie Monster, Nicky, the blue Bad Idea Bear, and other characters in the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, a musical for which he designed and created all of the puppets. In the fall of 2005 he reprised his roles in the production of the show in Las Vegas for eight months before returning to the Broadway cast. Rick was a puppeteer on Sesame Street for 15 seasons, from 1987 to 2002. He also worked with Nickelodeon on the Stick Stickly project and on the Me + My Friends pilot. He was a lead puppeteer for the first season of Comedy Central's television program Crank Yankers. Lyon's company The Lyon Puppets, maintains a large permanent workshop outside New York City in New Jersey. In addition to building all of the Broadway and Las Vegas Avenue Q puppets, the company has built puppets for the original West End production of Avenue Q in London, the US national tour, and international productions in Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Switzerland and Germany, France, and China. Rick frequently coaches actors in puppetry for productions of Avenue Q for which he provides puppets.
He studied theater at Penn State University and puppetry at the Institute of Professional Puppetry Arts in Connecticut and the Institut International de la Marionnette in France.
Rick has one daughter from his former marriage to actress Tonya Dixon.
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Origin USA
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Kevin Clash, Fran Brill, Richard Hunt, Rick Lyon, Joey Mazzarino, Jerry Nelson
Billy Bunny sings his way across the forest where he runs across a swamp full of frogs, a cave filled with rapping bears (which were recycled from the generic bears from The Muppets Take Manhattan), and a singing porcupine.
, 1h28Directed by Michael Pressman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Comedy science fiction films, Martial arts films, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'une tortue, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Gangster films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Reptile
Actors Paige Turco, Leif Tilden, François Chau, Kenn Troum, a.k.a. Kenn Scott, David Warner, Kevin Clash
Roles Tokka (facial assistant)
Rating60%
A young pizza delivery boy named Keno inadvertently encounters burglars on his route and tries to stop them. Seeing him as a witness, the burglars attack Keno, who proves to be an expert martial artist, but he is soon overwhelmed before the arrival of the Ninja Turtles. They vanish after rescuing Keno, taking the pizza he was delivering and leaving money to pay for it.
Let My Puppets Come (1976)
, 45minutesDirected by Gerard Damiano
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Pornographic
Actors Gerard Damiano, Rick Lyon, Pam Arciero
Rating50%
Owing a mob boss half a million dollars which must be paid in 24 hours, a group of executives comes up with ideas for, and films, a pornographic movie.