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He made an appearance as Big Bird on an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Before the show was taped, Fred Rogers wanted to have him remove the Big Bird outfit on the show and discuss the inner workings of it. Spinney objected to this idea, saying that it was important to preserve the sense of wonder and magic that children have about Big Bird... See more trivia »

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1969-2013 Sesame Street (TV series)
Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch / Oscar / …
– Finish the Splat (2013) … Oscar the Grouch (voice)
– The Very End of X (2012) … Big Bird (voice)
– Telly the Tiebreaker (2012) … Big Bird (voice)
– The Letter G Song (2012) … Oscar the Grouch (voice)
– Me Am What Me Am (2012) … Big Bird (voice)
See all 169 episodes »
 
2012 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2012 (TV movie)
Big Bird/Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2012 Saturday Night Live (TV series)
Big Bird
– Daniel Craig/Muse (2012) … Big Bird (voice)
 
2009-2012 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV series)
Oscar the Grouch / Big Bird
– Episode #10.125 (2012) … Oscar the Grouch
– Episode #10.116 (2012) … Oscar the Grouch
– Episode #8.42 (2009) … Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2011 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2011 Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster (Video Game)
Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2009 The Bonnie Hunt Show (TV series)
Oscar the Grouch
– Episode dated 9 November 2009 (2009) … Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2009 Live from the Red Carpet: The 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice)
 
2009 Elmo and Abby's Birthday Fun (video)
 
2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2009 Being Green (video)
Big Bird (voice) (also archive footage) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) (also archive footage)
 
2009 Scrubs (TV series)
Oscar the Grouch
– My ABC's (2009) … Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2008 Abby in Wonderland (video)
Oscar as the Grouch of Hearts (voice)
 
2007 Elmo's Christmas Countdown (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2007 Elmo's World: What Makes You Happy? (video)
 
2006 A Sesame Street Christmas Carol (video)
Oscar the Grouch (voice) / Big Bird (voice)
 
2006 Guess That Shape and Color (video short)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2005 Elmo Visits the Doctor (video)
Big Bird (voice)
 
2005 Sesame Street: Friends to the Rescue (video)
Big Bird
 
2004 What's the Name of That Song (video)
Big Bird (voice)
 
2004 Sesame Street Presents: The Street We Live On (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) (also archive footage) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) (also archive footage)
 
2004 The West Wing (TV series)
Big Bird
– Eppur Si Muove (2004) … Big Bird
 
2003 Sesame Street: Sesame Sings Karaoke (video short)
Big Bird
 
2003 Sesame Street: Three Bears and a New Baby (video)
Big Bird (voice)
 
2003 Zoe's Dance Moves (video short)
 
2001 Between the Lions (TV series)
Big Bird
– Tweet! Tweet! (2001) … Big Bird
 
2001 Elmo's Musical Adventure: Peter and the Wolf (video)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1999 Cinderelmo (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1999 The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1999 Kids' Favorite Songs (video short)
Big Bird/Oscar
 
1998 Soul Man (TV series)
Big Bird
– The Stan Plan (1998) … Big Bird (voice)
 
1998 Big Bird Gets Lost (video short)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1997 123 Count with Me (video short)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1997 Sing Yourself Sillier at the Movies (video short)
Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1996 Elmocize (video short)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1996 Do the Alphabet (video short)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1996 Imagine That! (video short)
Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1996 Kids' Guide to Life: Learning to Share (video short)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1996 Elmo Saves Christmas (video)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1994 It's Not Easy Being Green (video short)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1994 Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1991 Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1990 Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Hospital (video short)
Big Bird / Oscar
 
1990 Sing Yourself Silly! (video short)
Big Bird (voice) (also archive footage) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) (also archive footage)
 
1990 Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Firehouse (video short)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1990 Sesame Songs: Rock & Roll (video short)
Oscar the Grouch (also archive footage) / Big Bird (also archive footage)
 
1988 Wow, You're a Cartoonist! (video short)
Picklepuss/Pop (voice)
 
1988 Sesame Street, Special (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) / Bruno the Trashman (voice)
 
1988 Let's Learn to Play Together (Video Game)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1988 The Best of Ernie and Bert (video short)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1988 Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street (video short)
Big Bird (voice) (also archive footage) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) (also archive footage)
 
1988 Big Bird in Japan (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1987 A Muppet Family Christmas (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1987 Kids Like These (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1987 Learning to Add and Subtract (video short)
Big Bird
 
1987 Sing Along (video short)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1987 Shalom Sesame (TV series)
Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1986 Getting Ready to Read (video short)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1986 Learning About Numbers (video short)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1986 The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1986 I'm Glad I'm Me (video)
Big Bird
 
1986 Sesame Street: Bedtime Stories and Songs (video short)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1986 Learning About Letters (video short)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar The Grouch (voice)
 
1985 Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) / Bruno the Trashman (voice)
 
1985 Night of 100 Stars II (TV movie)
Big Bird
 
1985 Three Sesame Street Stories (video short)
Big Bird/Zookeeper/Oscar the Grouch (voice) (uncredited)
 
1985 Five Sesame Street Stories (video short)
Big Bird (voice) (uncredited) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) (uncredited)
 
1983 Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1983 Big Bird in China (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1981 The Great Muppet Caper
Oscar The Grouch (voice)
 
1981 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (TV series)
Big Bird
– Competition (1981) … Big Bird (voice)
 
1979 Bob Hope on the Road to China (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1979 The Muppet Movie
Big Bird (voice)
 
1979 A Walking Tour of Sesame Street (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1978 A Special Sesame Street Christmas (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1978 The Muppet Show (TV series)
Big Bird
– Leslie Uggams (1978) … Big Bird (voice)
 
1978 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) (as Carroll Spinney) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) (as Carroll Spinney)
 
1972-1975 The Electric Company (TV series)
Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch
– 453 (1975) … Oscar the Grouch (voice)
– 131 (1972) … Big Bird (voice)
 
1974 Out to Lunch (TV movie) (voice)
 
1970 Flip (TV series)
Big Bird
– Episode #1.1 (1970) … Big Bird (voice)
 
1966 Bozo's Big Top (TV series)
Mr. Lion
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (10 titles)
1993 Sesame Songs: Sing-Along Earth Songs (video short) (performer: "Just Throw It My Way" 1990 - uncredited, "Oscar's Junk Band" 1989 - uncredited, "What a Gift" 1991 - uncredited)
 
1990 Sing Yourself Silly! (video short) (performer: "Everything in the Wrong Place Ball" 1988 - uncredited)
 
1988 Sesame Street, Special (TV movie) (performer: "Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?")
 
1988 Big Bird in Japan (TV movie) (performer: "Homesick", "Going to Kyoto", "Ichi, Ni, San")
 
1985 Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird (performer: "One Little Star", "Grouch Anthem", "Ain't No Road Too Long", "Easy Goin' Day", "I'm So Blue")
 
1983 Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (TV movie) (performer: "Broken and Beautiful", "You're Gonna Be a Star")
 
1979 Being There (performer: "Different Ways")
 
1978 A Special Sesame Street Christmas (TV movie) (performer: "It's the Thought That Counts" - uncredited, "Christmas Blech" - uncredited, "The Six Days of Christmas" - uncredited, "Yakety Yak" - uncredited, "Christmas Medley: Jingle Bells/Sleigh Ride/Winter Wonderland/I Saw Three Ships" - uncredited)
 
1978 The Muppet Show (TV series)
– Leslie Uggams (1978) (performer: "Love Will Keep Us Together" - uncredited)
 
1978 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (TV movie) (performer: "I Hate Christmas")
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1987 A Muppet Family Christmas (TV movie) (puppeteer)
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1983 Big Bird in China (TV movie) (story - uncredited)
 
Show ShowSelf (29 titles)
2013 I Am Big Bird (documentary) (post-production)
Big Bird (rumored) / Oscar the Grouch (rumored) / Himself (rumored)
 
2012 Ain't It Cool with Harry Knowles (TV series)
Himself
– BIG BIRD, MUPPETS & MONSTERS (2012) … Himself
 
2012 Drew: The Man Behind the Poster (documentary)
Himself
 
2011 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (TV series)
Big Bird
– Walker Family (2011) … Big Bird (voice)
 
2010 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2009 Infanity (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Sesame Street (2009) … Himself
 
2009 The 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (TV special)
Himself (voice) (also archive footage) (uncredited) / Big Bird (voice) (also archive footage) (uncredited) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) (also archive footage) (uncredited)
 
2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (TV movie)
Big Bird (voice)
 
2007-2008 1 vs. 100 (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #2.7 (2008) (as Oscar the Grouch)
– Episode #2.6 (2008) … Himself (as Oscar the Grouch)
– Episode #2.4 (2008) … Himself (as Oscar the Grouch)
– Episode #2.2 (2008) … Himself (as Oscar the Grouch)
– Episode #2.5 (2007) (as Oscar the Grouch)
 
2006 The 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (TV special)
Himself
 
2004 The 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (TV special)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
2003 50 Greatest TV Animals (TV documentary)
Big Bird (as Big Bird) (also archive footage)
 
2001 Hollywood Squares (TV series)
Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch
– Episode dated 25 May 2001 (2001) … Big Bird (voice)
– Episode dated 24 May 2001 (2001) … Oscar the Grouch (voice)
– Episode dated 23 May 2001 (2001) … Big Bird (voice)
– Episode dated 22 May 2001 (2001) … Oscar the Grouch (voice)
– Episode dated 21 May 2001 (2001) … Big Bird (voice)
 
2001 Biography (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Close-Up: Sesame Street (2001) … Himself
 
1999 Sesame Street Unpaved (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Elmopalooza! (TV special)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1998 Showbiz Today (TV series)
Oscar the Grouch
– Episode dated 8 January 1998 (1998) … Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1993 Sesame Street Stays Up Late! (TV special)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1990 The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (TV documentary)
Big Bird (voice) (also archive footage) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) (also archive footage)
 
1989 Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting (TV special)
Big Bird (voice) (also archive footage) / Oscar the Grouch (voice) (also archive footage)
 
1987 The New Hollywood Squares (TV series)
Big Bird
– Episode dated 1 June 1987 (1987) … Big Bird (voice)
 
1984 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (TV special)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1984 Henson's Place (TV documentary)
Big Bird (voice) (uncredited)
 
1976-1980 The Hollywood Squares (TV series)
Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch / Bird Bird
– Episode dated 7 April 1980 (1980) … Bird Bird (voice)
– Episode dated 24 December 1979 (1979) … Oscar the Grouch (voice)
– Episode dated 3 September 1979 (1979) … Big Bird (voice)
– Episode dated 11 June 1979 (1979) … Oscar the Grouch (voice)
– Episode dated 8 June 1979 (1979) … Big Bird (voice)
See all 18 episodes »
 
1980 The 22nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards (TV movie)
Himself
 
1979 Presenting Susan Anton (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.1 (1979) … Himself
 
1978 NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney (TV documentary)
Big Bird (voice)
 
1973 Julie on Sesame Street (TV special)
Big Bird (voice) / Oscar the Grouch (voice)
 
1971 Evening at Pops (TV series documentary)
Big Bird
– A Special Program with Arthur Fiedler and Friends from Sesame Street (1971) … Big Bird (voice)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (8 titles)
2011 Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (documentary)
Himself
 
2008 A Company of Players (video documentary short)
Big Bird (voice) (uncredited)
 
2007 Play with Me Sesame (TV series)
 
2003 Rove Live (TV series)
 
1994 Great Performances (TV series)
 
1993 Sesame Songs: Sing-Along Earth Songs (video short)
Oscar the Grouch/Big Bird (voice)
 
1990 Entertainment Tonight (TV series)
 
1990 Sesame Songs: Monster Hits! (video short)
Oscar the Grouch
 

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Trivia:

He made an appearance as Big Bird on an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Before the show was taped, Fred Rogers wanted to have him remove the Big Bird outfit on the show and discuss the inner workings of it. Spinney objected to this idea, saying that it was important to preserve the sense of wonder and magic that children have about Big Bird... See more »

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