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Frank Richard Oznowicz was born in Hereford, England to puppeteers Frances and Isidore Oznowicz. His family moved to Montana in 1951, eventually settling in Oakland, California. As a teenager, he worked as an apprentice puppeteer at Children's Fairyland amusement park. He is one of the primary puppeteers responsible for the development of Jim ...
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The Muppet Show
Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal / Sam the Eagle / Mildred / George / George the Janitor / Marvin Suggs / Boppity / Frank / Zucchini Brother / Animal's Dancing Partner / Baby / Bert / Black Rooster / Crocodile / Gorgon Heap / Gramps / Whatnot Dancer / Whatnot Dancers / Additional Muppets / Alien / Atrics Piano Player / Atrics piano player / Banana / Baskerville / Beaker clones / Big Mary Louise / Billy the Bear / Boo Mortmorkinson / Borcellino / Bun-Bun Brother / Chickens / Clodhopper / Cookie Monster / Dog Bomber / Doglion / Dough / Fazoob / Feather Boa Constrictor / Fozzie's Cousin / Fred / Geri and the Atrics Piano Player / Girl Dancer / Gloat / Gogalala Jubilee Jugband Guitarist / Green Frackle / Green Heap / Grover / House / Hugga Wugga / Jugband Member / Killer Lamb / Lead Gingerbread Man / Male Koozebanian / Mary Louise / Merdlidop / Patient / Pig / Pigs / Purple Frackle / Purple Heap / Rat / Runaway / Salsburg Sauerkraut Singer / Scraggly Woman / Slim Wilson / Snake Frackle / Snowths / Tambourine Player / The Swedish Pig / Train Conductor / Tree / Two-Nosed Whatnot / Villain / Whatnot / Wolf / Wolfhound / Woman
(1976-1981)
Sesame Street
Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster / Harvey Kneeslapper / Muppet / Tessie Twiddlebug / Lefty the Salesman / Anything Muppets / Prince Charming / Beautiful Day Monster / Humpty Dumpty / Mailman / Frank / Pig / Backup Doctor / Barber / King / Snow White / Train Conductor / Boy / Charlie / Green J Friend / Pumpkin Cheerleader / Rocky's Mother / Additional Anything Muppets / Alistair Cookie / Cow / Doc Holiday / Dr. Rainbrain / Farmer Frankie / Frances Oznowicz / Girl / Horse / Jascha Lombardi / Larry Rhymie / Man / Parker Piper / Pinocchio / Porter Piper / Professor Hastings / Repairman / Salesman / The Biggest Person in the Kingdom / The Pied Piper / The Smallest Person in the Kingdom / The Woodsman / Bats / Cloud / Clucky Luciano / Director / Driver / Fat Blue Tarnish Brother / Fat Blue Vocalist / Lamont / Lefty / Little Miss Muffet / Pig #1 / Santa Claus / The Encyclopedia Salesman / The Evil Prime Minister / Additional Muppets / Announcer / Bart / Bat / Big Bill / Cowpoke / E-Sweater Man / End / Fuzzyface / Green Alien / Green Cowboy / Jack / Larry / Lavender Son / Lettuce / Little Bad Wolf / Lulu / Mahna Mahna's Backup Girl / Maurice's Love Interest / Mother Goose / Papa Piper / Pig #3 / Poppa Piper / Princess Penelope / Ralph / Rosemary / Royal Cook / Scooter / Sister / Spider / Splurge / Square / Store Clerk / T-Sweater Man / The Cat with the Fiddle / The City Mouse / The Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe / The Square / The Tortoise / Tooth / Townsperson #3 / Trudy / Turtle / Wicked Witch / Woman / Woodsman / Zizzy Zoomer #3 / 'Alphabet Chat' director / 1st Motorist / AM Boy / AM Girl / Additional Monsters / Additional Performers / Aladdin / Alphabet O'Malley / Anything Muppet / Assistant Director / Attendant / Augustine Washington / Baritone Elevator Singer / Bearded Hippie / Big Barney / Big Bird / Biggest Person in the Kingdom / Blue Singer / Boy (Green) / Brother / Brother ('Five People in My Family') / Brown Wolf / Bruce Rumpelstiltskin / Bunny / Caterer / Caveboy / City Mouse / Cleaner / Country Vocalist / Delivery Man / Doctor / Dog / Dr. Reinbrain / Duck / Elaine / Employment Agent / Evil Prime Minister / Fat Blue Guy / Fat Blue Singer / Fat Blue Tarnish Brother (Assistant) / Fireman / First / Fish / Florist / Food Cart Vendor / Game Show Announcer / Gas Station Attendant / Gas Station Man / George's Father / Girl (Reddish-Magenta) / Green AM Cowboy / Green Cowpoke / Green Girl / Green Grouch / Green P Lover / Hare / Harold / Helen Happy / Hot Dog Man / Jeffery / Keith Heartburn / King Morris / Lead Cheerleader / Little Boy / Little Girl ('Lulu's Back in Town') / Little Miss Muffett / Live Hand Closer / Lucy Jones / Male Teacher / Moe Busby / Monsters Flanking Tony / Mother / Mr. Draper / Mrs. Rooney / Mumford's Announcer / Mumford's Duck / Pigs #1 and 3 / Pink Girl / Pumpkin Man / Pumpkin Subject / Purple Boy / Rabbit / Round Monster / Royal Subjects / Rubber Balls / Sally Screamer / Shoemaker / Shopkeeper / Slimey / Smallest Person in the Kingdom / Smilin' Jack / Son #3 / Sour Bird / Street Cleaner / Taminella Grinderfall / Telephone Repairman / The Colonel Explorer / The Mailman / The Old Woman who Lives in a Shoe / The Shoemaker / Thief #1 / Thin Green Monster / Tortoise / Train Engineer / Various Monsters / Villager / Windy (Beautiful Day Monster) / Wisecracking Ball / Young Cowboy / Zelda
(1969-2014)
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Actor (148 credits)
Actor (148 credits)
Animal Show
(TV Series)
Sam the Eagle
Sam the Eagle
- The Eagle
... Sam the Eagle (voice)
- Bald Eagle
... Sam the Eagle (voice)
2020
Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge
(TV Series)
Yoda
Yoda
- Episode #1.10
(2020)
... Yoda (voice)
- Episode #1.9
(2020)
... Yoda (voice)
- Episode #1.8
(2020)
... Yoda (voice)
- Episode #1.7
(2020)
... Yoda (voice)
- Episode #1.6
(2020)
... Yoda (voice)
2014-2016
Star Wars: Rebels
(TV Series)
Yoda
Yoda
- Shroud of Darkness
(2016)
... Yoda (voice)
- Path of the Jedi
(2014)
... Yoda (voice)
1969-2014
Sesame Street
(TV Series)
Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster / ...
Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster / ...
- School for Chickens
(2014)
... Clucky Luciano (voice)
- The Flower Show
(2013)
... Grover (voice)
- Finish the Splat
(2013)
... Grover (voice)
- Elmo and Zoe's Hat Contest
(2012)
... Grover (voice)
- Telly the Tiebreaker
(2012)
... Clucky Luciano (voice)
1998
Sesame Street: Elmo Through the Looking-Glass
(Video Game)
Alistair Cookie / Sir Grover (voice)
Alistair Cookie / Sir Grover (voice)
1996-1998
Muppets Tonight
(TV Series)
Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Sam the Eagle / ...
Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Sam the Eagle / ...
- Johnny Fiama Leaves Home
(1998)
... Sam the Eagle (voice)
- The Cameo Show
(1997)
... Fozzie Bear (voice)
- Paula Abdul
(1996)
... Sam the Eagle / Miss Piggy (voice)
- Heather Locklear
(1996)
... Animal (voice)
- Pierce Brosnan
(1996)
... Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear (voice)
1997
Sesame Street: Get Up and Dance
(Short)
(voice)
1992
What's Up Doc?
(TV Series)
Miss Piggy
Miss Piggy
- Episode #1.16
(1992)
... Miss Piggy (voice, as Miss Piggy)
1990
The Magical World of Disney
(TV Series)
Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal
Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal
- The Muppets at Walt Disney World
(1990)
... Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal (voice)
- Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
(1990)
... Miss Piggy (voice)
1989
The Jim Henson Hour
(TV Series)
Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal
Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal
- Videotape
(1989)
... Fozzie Bear (voice)
- First Show
(1989)
... Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear (voice)
- Power
(1989)
... Fozzie Bear (voice)
- Pitch Reel
... Animal / Miss Piggy (uncredited)
1987-1988
Dolly
(TV Series)
Miss Piggy
Miss Piggy
- Episode #1.19
(1988)
... Miss Piggy (voice, as Miss Piggy)
- Episode #1.8
(1987)
... Miss Piggy (voice, as Miss Piggy)
1986
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
(TV Movie)
Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Sam the Eagle / ... (voice)
Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Sam the Eagle / ... (voice)
1985
Great Performances
(TV Series)
Miss Piggy
Miss Piggy
- 'Cinderella' from the San Francisco Ballet
(1985)
... Miss Piggy (voice)
1985
Little Muppet Monsters
(TV Series)
Fozzie Bear
Fozzie Bear
- In the Beginning
(1985)
... Fozzie Bear (voice)
1979-1984
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(TV Series)
Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal
Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal
- Miss Piggy/Howie Mandel/John McCosker
(1984)
... Miss Piggy (as Miss Piggy)
- Episode dated 2 April 1979
(1979)
... Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal (voice)
1983
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(TV Movie)
Bert / Cookie Monster / Grover (voice)
Bert / Cookie Monster / Grover (voice)
1976-1981
The Muppet Show
(TV Series)
Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal / ...
Fozzie Bear / Miss Piggy / Animal / ...
- Buddy Rich
(1981)
... Miss Piggy / Fozzie Bear / Animal (voice)
- Chris Langham
(1981)
... Sam the Eagle (voice)
- Debbie Harry
(1981)
... Miss Piggy / Animal / Woman (voice)
- Wally Boag
(1981)
... Miss Piggy / Animal (voice)
- Gene Kelly
(1981)
... Miss Piggy (voice)
1976
Isabella and the Magic Brush
(Short)
(voice)
1975-1976
Saturday Night Live
(TV Series)
The Mighty Favog / The Mighty Favog (segment 'The Land of Gorch') / The Mighty Favog (segment 'Dregs and Vestiges') / ...
The Mighty Favog / The Mighty Favog (segment 'The Land of Gorch') / The Mighty Favog (segment 'Dregs and Vestiges') / ...
- Lily Tomlin/James Taylor
(1976)
... The Mighty Favog (voice, as Jim Henson's Muppets)
- Madeline Kahn/Carly Simon
(1976)
... The Mighty Favog (as Jim Henson's Muppets)
- Raquel Welch/Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian
(1976)
... The Mighty Favog (voice, as Jim Henson's Muppets)
- Ron Nessen/Patti Smith Group
(1976)
... The Mighty Favog (credit only)
- Elliott Gould/Anne Murray
(1976)
... The Mighty Favog (voice, uncredited)
1975
Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten
(TV Series)
Bert / Cookie Monster
Bert / Cookie Monster
- Episode #1.10
(1975)
... Bert / Cookie Monster (uncredited)
1975
Muppets No-Nonsense Show
(TV Movie)
(voice)
1972
Tales from Muppetland: The Muppet Musicians of Bremen
(TV Movie)
Leroy the Donkey (Assistant) / Rat (voice)
Leroy the Donkey (Assistant) / Rat (voice)
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Additional Crew (18 credits)
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Director (18 credits)
Director (18 credits)
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Soundtrack (36 credits)
Soundtrack (36 credits)
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Producer (5 credits)
Producer (5 credits)
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Writer (1 credit)
Writer (1 credit)
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Cinematographer (1 credit)
Cinematographer (1 credit)
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Thanks (18 credits)
Thanks (18 credits)
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Self (105 credits)
Self (105 credits)
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Archive footage (70 credits)
Archive footage (70 credits)
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Directed some of the Energizer Bunny ads in which the Supervolt corporation hires movie villain assassins to kill the bunny (1995-1996). See more »Alternate Names:
Fozzie Bear | Jim Henson's Muppets | The Muppets | Derek DelGaudio & Frank Oz | Frank Oznowicz | Miss PiggyHeight:
6' 2" (1.88 m)Parents:
Oznowicz, Frances | Oznowicz, Isidore
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