Names to Know in Puppet Shows



This page is part of the "Names to Know" project.

The groundbreaking, the influential, the seminal... but not necessarily the most famous people in puppetry.

These people are the genre definers, the Trope Makers, the people that other people in the puppetry field look to for inspiration.

For famous works in the field (such as Punch and Judy or Avenue Q), see Puppet Shows.

The Other Wiki has a list of notable puppeteers.

Hand Puppeteers

 * The Funday Pawpet Show
 * Shari Lewis
 * Burr Tillstrom - creator of Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and puppeteer of Kukla and Ollie
 * Spitting Image
 * Cosmo Allegretti
 * Hallo Spencer
 * Les Guignols de l'info
 * Steven Joel Kerzner - the puppeteer behind Ed the Sock
 * Peter Schumann - founder of the Bread & Puppet Theater

Marionettes

 * Howdy Doody
 * John Hopkins - founder of Le Theatre de Marionette

Muppeteers

 * Don Austen
 * Kevin Clash
 * Jim Henson
 * Frank Oz
 * Caroll Spinney

Other Puppetry
Includes shadow puppets, paper cutouts, and found objects among others.
 * Gerry Anderson - creator of "Supermarionation"
 * Richard Bradshaw - shadow puppeteer and past Artistic Director of the Marionette Theatre of Australia
 * D.C. Follies
 * Sid and Marty Krofft Productions
 * Paul Zaloom

Ventriloquists
See also the list of ventriloquists on Names to Know in Comedy; which has a lot of overlap with this list.
 * Edgar Bergen
 * Jeff Dunham
 * Señor Wences
 * Paul Winchell