Directing
Jim Henson
1936-09-24 · Greenville, Mississippi, USA
James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, actor, animator, creative producer, and director who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Henson was also well known for creating Fraggle Rock (1983–1987) and as the director of The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986), as well as creating the puppets for Sesame Street (1969). Born in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in both Leland, Mississippi, and University Park, Maryland, Henson began developing puppets in high school. He created Sam and Friends (1955–1961), a short-form comedy television program on WRC-TV, while he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, in collaboration with fellow student Jane Nebel. Henson and Nebel co-founded Muppets, Inc. – now The Jim Henson Company – in 1958, and married less than a year later in 1959. Henson graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in home economics. In 1969, Henson joined the children's television program Sesame Street (1969–present) where he helped to develop Muppet characters for the series. He and his creative team also appeared on the first season of the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (1975–present). He produced the sketch comedy television series The Muppet Show (1976–1981) during this period. Henson revolutionized the way puppetry is captured and presented in video media, and he won fame for his characters – particularly Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog, and the characters on Sesame Street. During the later years of his life, he founded the Jim Henson Foundation and Jim Henson's Creature Shop. He won the Emmy Award twice for his involvement in The Storyteller (1987–1988) and The Jim Henson Hour (1989). Henson died in New York City from toxic shock syndrome caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. At the time of his death, he was in negotiations to sell his company to The Walt Disney Company, but talks fell through after his death. He was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991, and was named a Disney Legend in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Henson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Labyrinth
The Muppets
The Witches
The Dark Crystal
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Dinosaurs
Muppets Most Wanted
The Muppet Movie
Saturday Night Live
Muppet Treasure Island
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Muppets from Space
The Muppet Show
The Great Muppet Caper
Movie credits · 194
The First Snow of Fraggle Rock
The Muppet Script
Joan Rivers at the BBC
Jim Henson Idea Man
Muppets Haunted Mansion
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Sesame Street: 50 Years and Counting
Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
In Their Own Words: Jim Henson
Fozzie's Bear-ly Funny Fridays
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
Jim Henson: Behind the Seams
Muppets Most Wanted
Lady Gaga & the Muppets Holiday Spectacular
The Muppets
Jim Henson: His Sesame Street Story
Jim Henson's Tales from Muppetland
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
Reflections of 'The Dark Crystal'
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
Muppet History 101
Jim Henson: Commercials and Experiments
Muppet Music Moments
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Sesame Street: Cookie Monster's Best Bites
Muppets Magic from 'The Ed Sullivan Show!'
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Kermit's Swamp Years
Sesame Street: Bert & Ernie's Word Play
The Very Best of the Muppet Show: Volume 3
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: Singing, Drawing & More!
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
Muppets from Space
The Very Best of the Muppet Show
The Very Best of the Muppet Show: Volume 2
The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street
Sesame Street: Elmo Says BOO!
Sesame Street: Quiet Time
TV credits · 43
The Muppets Mayhem
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
Muppets Now
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Muppet Babies
The Muppets
In Their Own Words
Studio DC: Almost Live
Muppets TV
5, Rue Sésame
Sesame Street: Play with Me Sesame
Sesame Unpaved
Dog City
Dinosaurs
Little Mermaid's Island
Mother Goose Stories
The Jim Henson Hour
The Storyteller
Dolly
Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series
CBS Summer Playhouse
Wedden, dat..?
Jim Henson's Little Muppet Monsters
Muppet Babies
Reading Rainbow
Fraggle Rock
Wogan
1, rue Sésame
The Muppet Show
Saturday Night Live
Great Performances
Sesame Street
Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten
The Dick Cavett Show
NBC Experiment in Television
Einer wird gewinnen
The Mike Douglas Show
Sam and Friends
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Oscars
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