Caroll Spinney characters

Caroll Spinney most notably performed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street for fifty years.
What is not as well known, however, is that Spinney also performed a number of other characters, usually Anything Muppets, in the earlier seasons of the show. Spinney also performed Muppet versions of his pre-Sesame Street characters Picklepuss and Pop in a Muppet production, and made several cameos on the show.
Followthatbirdie84.jpg|Big Bird
OscarS6.jpg|Oscar the Grouch
==Named characters==
Granny Bird profile.png|Granny Bird
Hereisyrlifegranny.jpg|Granny Fanny Nesselrode
Bruno trashcan.jpg|Bruno the Trashman
Shivers the Penguin 1735.jpg|Shivers the Penguin
Richie 0319.jpg|Richie / Fremont / Hathaway(and Rollo)
Adrienne adorable Spinney.jpg|Adrienne
Spinney AM baseball.jpg|Artie
Bennett Snerf.jpg|Bennett Snerf
Buck 1083.jpg|Buck
1144 02.jpg|Crummy
0227-SpinneyGirl.jpg|Dolores
Duke David.jpg|Duke David
Cutie and the Beast king Spinney.jpg|King Ferdinand XXXVII
0356 Ferris.jpg|Ferris
0191-FinsterFamily.jpg|Finster children
First Prince.jpg|First Prince
Professor Goldfinch.jpg|Professor Goldfinch
0879 - Caroll mail carrier.jpg|Gus
Mr. Hewitt 1126.jpg|Mr. Hewitt
Spinney Ira.jpg|Ira
0633 - Joanna.jpg|Joanna
Caroll-GroverBird.jpg|Louise
Spinney Ludwig.jpg|Ludwig of Liverwurst
Mama Bear season 3 Spinney.jpg|Mama Bear (season 3)
Penelope Pepperpot.jpg|Penelope Pepperpot
1531-Puppet01.jpg|Phoenix
Spinney Pierce 0296.jpg|Pierce
0219-CarollAM.jpg|Rocco
Mr. Rocco.jpg|Mr. Rocco
Caroll-0281Seth.jpg|Seth
ToughLuckLester.png|Tough Luck Lester
File:Spinney Willie 0190.jpg|Willie
Worthington.jpg|Worthington
Young Youth.jpg|Young Youth
0282 Zoe Zelda Zelinka Zabriskie.jpg|Zoe Zelda Zelinka Zabriskie
==Shared characters==
Recurring characters shared among performers.
Sam-the-robot.jpg|Sam the Robot inepisodes 0440, 0461, 0463, and 0468
CarollLeftySalesman.jpg|Lefty the Salesman insketches for U and P&R
0559 - Caroll as Little Bird.jpg|Little Bird inepisodes 0095 and 0559
File:Spinney Herry 0142.jpg|Herry Monster in Episode 0142
CarollBillyIS.jpg|Billy in "IS" sketchand Episode 0210
Pumpkin AM Spinney tugowar.jpg|Fenwick in Episode 0210 and "Monster Tug-of-War"
Monsterslookata.jpg|proto-Grover in"Monsters Look at A"
0573e.jpg|Cookie Monster and Beautiful Day Monster in "Monsters Whisper C"
Beautday6.jpg|Beautiful Day Monster, here named "Snooky," in Ernie and Bert sketch 
Hippie hair Spinney.jpg|Hippie in Kermit's hair lecture
behind the scenes first and last sketch.jpg|Scudge and Billy in "First and Last"
1052-Spinney-monster.jpg|Harvey Monster in "Furry Blue Mommy of Mine"
==Ancillary characters==
Unnamed Anything Muppets, monsters, etc.
Purplemother.jpg|Mother in "Consider Yourself"(dialogue only)
Frank-BrotherhoodBoy.jpg|son (singing voice) in "Brotherhood of Man"
Five People in My Family sister.jpg|sibling in "Five People in My Family"
Caroll-Pig.jpg|pig in "Swinging on a Star"
Spinney son Children Song.jpg|son in "Children Song"
Spinney pilot Yellow Submarine.jpg|Pumpkin pilot in "Yellow Submarine"
Spinney ice cream.jpg|Purple AM in "Everyone Likes Ice Cream"
Caroll - Can You Guess Mom.jpg|"Can You Guess?" panelist #2
Can You Guess panelist no3.jpg|"Can You Guess?" panelist #3
Spinney Lulu Back in Town.jpg|little boy and man in "Lulu's Back in Town"
Spinney Goin for a Ride.jpg|Reddish-Magenta AM in "Goin' for a Ride"
Fat Blue Spinney Kermit clues.jpg|Fat Blue man in Kermit looks for clues
Wendy's mom.jpg|Wendy's mom 
Spinney farmer Magic Apple.jpg|the farmer in "The Magic Apple"
rubber ball postman.jpg|postman Rubber Ball
Spinney surprise.jpg|Pumpkin AM in "Surprise!"
Green AM Before and After 0188.jpg|Green AM in "Before and After" season two remake
File:Caroll-SUN.jpg|son in SUN
WY2.jpg|AM girl in "Wonderful/Yucchy"
WY3.jpg|Pumpkin AM in "Wonderful/Yucchy"
Spinney AM Cookie Goes to School.jpg|AM in "Cookie Monster Goes to School"
PrincessCookie-King.jpg|King in "The Princess and the Cookie" 
0165 Spinney AM.jpg|AM girl in Episode 0165 Scene 9
SalesmanME-Caroll.jpg|boy in Salesman "ME" sketch
Polly's mother 0217.jpg|Polly Watson's mother in Episode 0217 Scene 2
GroverWalkSpinneyx2.jpg|Lavender and Pumpkin AMs in Grover and Monotones WALK sketch 
Song.NoMatterHowYouCountThem.jpg|ensemble in "No Matter How You Count Them"
Spinney Mad.jpg|AM in "Mad"
Five balls try to play basketball.jpg|Rubber Ball (second from left) in basketball sketch 
mother Family Arrangement.jpg|Mother in Family Arrangement sketch 
0420-CarollAbercrombie.jpg|Abercrombie the ant in Episode 0420
0433-CarollGirl.jpg|AM girl in Episode 0433
0437-CarollCow.jpg|cow in Episode 0437
0454-CarollGirl.jpg|AM girl in Episode 0454
Caroll-0486.jpg|Lavender AM in Episode 0486
0559 - Caroll lavendar AM.jpg|Lavender AM in Episode 0559
0589 sneezing AM.jpg|sneezing AM in Episode 0589
==Audio voices==
Characters performed in non-motion media and other voiceovers.
The Cookie Tree.jpg|The Cookie Tree
Magic Cookie Strange Little Man.jpg|Strange Little Man in"The Magic Cookie"
Sleepykoala.jpg|singing "Rock-a-bye Baby" to a koala in a season one film
0006t.jpg|announcing the sponsors in Episode 0006
Hooper's Super Alphabet Maker.jpg|Hooper's Super Alphabet Maker in Episode 0031
0194 07.jpg|voiceover in Episode 0194, Scene 7
Spinney newspaper voice 0489.jpg|newspaper truck driver in episodes 0489, 0544, and 0656
0497d.jpg|Farley's teammate in Episode 0497
0600g.png|voiceover in Episode 0600, Scene 4
0694c.jpg|voiceover in Episode 0694, Scene 2
0909g.jpg|voiceover in Episode 0909, Scene 3
Maria conductor.jpg|Concert announcer for "Concerto for Cigar Box, Washtub and Jug"
1226-SpinneyGrouches.jpg|voice of hungry Grouch heard inside Oscar's trash can in Episode 1226
Ernie Learns to Skate filmstrip Spinney AM.jpg|AM in Ernie Learns to Skate
Oscar Builds a Snake House filmstrip Slinky.jpg|Slinky in Oscar Builds a Snake House
Spinney fisherman Going to the Beach.jpg|Fisherman in Going to the Beach
Spinney grocer Grouch Market filmstrip.jpg|Grocer in The Grouch Market
Spinney-FiremanFrank.jpg|Fireman Frank in The Alphabet: The Great Alphabet Play
==Honorary Mentions==
* In the audio cassette version of the book A Sesame Street Christmas, Caroll Spinney as Big Bird reads a story that includes his imitations of Bert, Ernie, Betty Lou, and Grover. Earlier in the story, Spinney narrates as Oscar imitating Ernie, The Count and Cookie Monster. Another story on the tape finds Spinney as Oscar imitating Big Bird and Betty Lou.
* Spinney narrates several of the audio adaptations of the Sesame Street Start-to-Read Book series, sometimes doing other character voices. Other examples can be found on Sesame Street records including Big Bird presents Hans Christian Andersen.
* Spinney voiced a zookeeper and a firefighter in the adaptation of "Everyone Makes Mistakes" for the video, Three Sesame Street Stories.
* Spinney dubbed the voice of the human cab driver (portrayed by Lorenzo Giliberti) in Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
* In 2012 Spinney puppeteered various transformations of Big Bird — including a penguin, a lamb, and a chicken — for "The Lobby Project," a welcoming video screen display for the lobby of Sesame Workshop's offices at Lincoln Plaza.Paul McGinnis on Twitter
Spinney-LobbyProject1.jpg
Spinney-LobbyProject2.jpg
Spinney-LobbyProject3.jpg
==Notes==
* Despite his claims to the contrary, Spinney never performed Elmo.
* Daniel Seagren once filled in as Big Bird when Spinney was sick in Episode 0083 and Episode 0086. Similarly, Jim Henson filled in as Oscar for Episode 0084.
==Scripts==
Scripts that credit Spinney as playing various characters for which no a/v evidence is available.
* Episode 0239 — AM boy
* Episode 0277 — AM lady
==See also==
* Caroll and Debra Spinney cameos
==Sources==
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Category:Performer Filmographies