Frank Oz

Frank Oz was born in Hereford, England, in 1944, to puppeteer parents who had lived in Belgium and settled in the United States in 1951, then in Oakland. He operated his first puppets at twelve at parties and fairs, learned the trade at the city's children's theatre, and met Jim Henson at seventeen at a puppeteers' festival. He joined him in New York in 1963 and gave the voice and the hand to Miss Piggy, Bert, Cookie Monster and Yoda. He turned to directing in the early eighties and partly withdrew from puppetry in 2001.

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• CinemaLittle Shop of HorrorsFrank Oz · 1986Cinema