To accommodate this, Sesame Street puppeteers Joey Mazzarino, Carmen Osbahr, and Matt Vogel were brought in to do the muppet versions of Jack, Liz, and Tracy Jordan.
The original puppeteers of Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe were trained in Japan by members of three traditional Bunraku puppet troupes: the Tonda Puppet Troupe, founded in the 1830s in Shiga Prefecture, Japan; and the 300-year-old Kuroda Puppet Troupe and the Imada Puppet Troupe of Iida, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
After Jim Henson died, Bonora attended his memorial, where she joined the other puppeteers who worked with him in the "Just One Person" song, where she operated Meryl Sheep.
D.B.'s Delight featured two regular co-hosts- a live performer (successively, St. Louis media celebrities Julius Hunter, "Young" Bobby Day and later Guy Phillips) and a puppet character called "D.B. Doorbell" (performed, at various times, by puppeteers Dale Thompson, Doug Kincaid, and Bobby Miller).
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Original puppeteer Dale Thompson built the first "D.B. Doorbell" puppet character in 1976; this was replaced in 1981 by a "Kincaid Karacter" puppet designed and built by St. Louis puppeteers William Kincaid and Doug Kincaid, when Doug Kincaid assumed the role of lead puppeteer that same year.
Forman's Yale Puppeteers, which he established upon graduating from University of Michigan (class of 1922), opened a puppet theatre in Los Angeles in 1941 (the Turnabout Theater) that attracted celebrity attention and support from some of Hollywood's biggest names, e.g., Greta Garbo, Marie Dressler, and Douglas Fairbanks, as well as other notable figures including Albert Einstein.
In Larry Niven's novel Ringworld, the Puppeteers' "Fleet of Worlds" is arranged in such a configuration (5 planets spaced at the points of a pentagon) which Niven calls a "Kemplerer rosette"; this (possibly intentional) misspelling (and misuse) is one possible source of this confusion.
While Shaw voiced all the characters, his puppeteers included some future famous names, among them Barry Levinson and Max Robinson.
He was operated and voiced alternately by three different puppeteers, who were: Richard Coombs, John Eccleston & Michael J. Bassett.
Other characters included Benny the Bear, Clyde the Owl and Farley, all performed by puppeteers Jim Lewis and Phil Gordon-Cooper.
Y.K. Padhye's son Ramdas Padhye, his daughter-in-law Aparna, and his grandsons Satyajit and Parikshit are also ventriloquists and puppeteers in the entertainment field.
Born in a family of puppeteers with roots in the Bamana, he began his initiation into the of puppet and masquerade figures at the age of ten as an apprentice to his father.