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Jim Henson Filmography
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Theiapolis - Labyrinth
1986 - Director
- The Dark Crystal
1982 - Director
- The Great Muppet Caper
1981 - Director
- Ernest Goes to Camp
1987 - Actor (Minor)
- Into the Night
1985 - Actor (Man on Phone)
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
1984 - Actor (Kermit the Frog/Rowlf/Dr. Teeth/Waldorf/Swedish Chef/Ernie/Granny/Horse & Carriage Rider/Link Hogthrob/The Newsman)
- The Dark Crystal
1982 - Actor (Jen, A Gelfling (performer)/High Priest (Ritual Master) (performer)/Podling (performer)/Additional Characters (uncredited))
- The Great Muppet Caper
1981 - Actor (Kermit the Frog/Rowlf/Dr. Teeth/Swedish Chef/Waldorf/The Muppet Newsman/Man having Snapshot in Restaurant (uncredited))
- The Muppet Movie
1979 - Actor (Kermit the Frog/Rowlf/Dr. Teeth/Waldorf/Doc Hopper's Men/Doglion (uncredited)/Link Hogthrob (uncredited)/Swedish Chef (uncredited))
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Jim Henson: Early work
Born in Greenville, Mississippi in 1936, Henson moved with his family to Hyattsville, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. in the late 1940s. In 1954, while still in high school, he began working for WTOP-TV creating puppets for a Saturday morning children's show. The next year he created Sam and Friends, a five-minute puppet show for WRC-TV, while attending the University of Maryland. Sam and Friends were already recognizably Muppets, and the show included a primitive version of what would become Henson's signature character, Kermit the Frog. Already he was experimenting with the techniques that would change the way puppetry was used on television, notably using the frame defined by the camera shot to allow the puppeteer to work from off-camera.
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