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American puppeteer (1936–1990)

Jim Henson
Henson at the 1989 Emmy Awards
Born	James Maury Henson (1936-09-24)September 24, 1936 Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.[1]
Died	May 16, 1990(1990-05-16) (aged 53) Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Crusade of death	Toxic shock syndrome
Alma mater	University of Maryland, College Park (B.South., 1960)
Occupation	Puppeteer animator cartoonist actor inventor composer filmmaker screenwriter
Years active	1954–1990
Lath member of	Jim Henson Foundation The Jim Henson Company (1958–1990) Jim Henson'south Animal Shop (1979–1990)
Spouse(s)	Jane Nebel ​ ​ (m. 1959; sep. 1986)​
Children	Brian Lisa John Heather Cheryl
Awards	Courage Conscience Award Emmy Award Disney Legend Accolade Inkpot Honor[2]

James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, composer, and screenwriter, who achieved worldwide observe as the creator of The Muppets characters and Fraggle Stone (1983–1987); and as the director of The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986). He was born in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in Leland, Mississippi, and University Park, Maryland.^[3]

Henson began developing puppets in loftier school. He created Sam and Friends (1955–1961), a short-grade one-act telly programme, while he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park in collaboration with Jane Nebel who was a senior. A few years later the 2 married. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in home economics, after which he and Jane produced java advertisements and developed experimental films. In 1958, he co-founded Muppets, Inc. with Jane, which became The Jim Henson Company.

In 1969, Henson joined the children'south educational television plan Sesame Street (1969–nowadays) where he helped to develop Muppet characters for the series. He and his creative team also appeared on the beginning season of the sketch one-act show Saturday Night Alive (1975–present). He produced The Muppet Evidence (1976–1981) during this period. He won fame for his characters, particularly Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog and Ernie. During the later years of his life, he founded the Jim Henson Foundation and Jim Henson'due south Creature Shop. He won the Emmy Award twice for his involvement in The StoryTeller (1987–1988) and The Jim Henson Hour (1989).

On May 16, 1990, Henson died in New York City at the historic period of 53 from streptococcal toxic stupor syndrome acquired past Streptococcus pyogenes.^{[4] [5]} He posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991, and was named a Disney Legend in 2011.

Biography [edit]

Early life: 1936–1960 [edit]

Henson was born James Maury Henson on September 24, 1936, in Greenville, Mississippi, the younger of two children of Paul Ransom Henson (1904–1994), an agronomist for the United States Department of Agronomics, and his wife Betty Marcella (née Brownish, 1904–1972).^[half-dozen] Henson's older brother, Paul Bribe Henson, Jr. (1932–1956), died in a automobile crash on April 15, 1956. He was raised every bit a Christian Scientist and spent his early childhood in Leland, Mississippi, before moving with his family unit to University Park, Maryland, near Washington, DC, in the late 1940s.^[vii] He remembered the arrival of the family's beginning television as "the biggest effect of his adolescence",^[viii] being heavily influenced by radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and the early television receiver puppets of Burr Tillstrom on Kukla, Fran and Ollie and Bil and Cora Baird.^[viii] He remained a Christian Scientist at least into his twenties when he taught Sunday school, just he wrote to a Christian Scientific discipline church in 1975 to inform them that he was no longer a practicing member.^[ix]

At age xviii, Henson began working for WTOP-Television receiver (now WUSA-TV) in 1954 while attending Northwestern High School, creating puppets for a Saturday morn children's bear witness chosen The Inferior Morn Evidence. He enrolled at the University of Maryland, College Park equally a studio arts major upon graduation, thinking that he might get a commercial artist.^[10] A puppetry course offered in the applied arts department introduced him to the craft and textiles courses in the college of home economics. He graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science degree in domicile economics. As a freshman, he created Sam and Friends, a five-infinitesimal puppet show for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. The characters on Sam and Friends were forerunners of the Muppets, and the show included a prototype of Henson'due south well-nigh famous character Kermit the Frog.^[11] He remained at WRC from 1954 to 1961.^{[ citation needed ]}

In the prove, Henson began experimenting with techniques that changed the way in which puppetry was used on television, including using the frame divers by the camera shot to allow the puppet performer to piece of work from off-camera. He believed that goggle box puppets needed to accept "life and sensitivity"^[12] and began making characters from flexible, fabric-covered foam rubber, assuasive them to express a wider array of emotions at a time when many puppets were made of carved wood.^[6] A marionette's arms are manipulated by strings, but Henson used rods to motion his Muppets' arms, allowing greater control of expression. Additionally, he wanted the Muppet characters to "speak" more creatively than was possible for previous puppets, which had random mouth movements, so he used precise mouth movements to friction match the dialogue.^{[ citation needed ]}

When Henson began work on Sam and Friends, he asked fellow University of Maryland senior Jane Nebel to aid him. The bear witness was a financial success, merely he began to accept doubts about going into a career performing with puppets one time he graduated. He spent several months in Europe, where he was inspired past European puppet performers who looked on their work as an art form.^[13] He began dating Jane after his return to the United States.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Idiot box and Muppets: 1961–1969 [edit]

Reproductions congenital in the Muppets Workshop of the Wilkins and Wontkins muppets

Henson spent much of the side by side two decades working in commercials, talk shows, and children'southward projects before realizing his dream of the Muppets equally "amusement for everybody".^[eight] The popularity of his work on Sam and Friends in the late 1950s led to a series of guest appearances on network talk and variety shows. He appeared as a guest on many shows, including The Steve Allen Show, The Jack Paar Programme, and The Ed Sullivan Show. (Sullivan introduced him every bit "Jim Newsom and his Puppets" on September 11, 1966.) These television broadcasts greatly increased his exposure, leading to hundreds of commercial appearances by Henson characters throughout the '60s.^{[ citation needed ]}

Among the most pop of Henson'southward commercials was a series for the local Wilkins Coffee visitor in Washington, D.C.^[14] Well-nigh of the Wilkins advertisements followed a similar formula. Two Muppets, in this case named Wilkins and Wontkins, would appear. Wilkins would extol the product, while Wontkins would reply to Wilkins in a gruff manner and do something that would cause Wilkins to retaliate physically; examples included Wontkins existence shot with a cannon, struck in the caput with a hammer or baseball bat, and having a pie thrown in his face up.^[15] The Jim Henson Visitor has posted a short selection of them.^[16] Henson later explained, "Till then, advertising agencies believed that the difficult sell was the only way to become their message over on tv set. Nosotros took a very different arroyo. Nosotros tried to sell things by making people laugh."^[17]

The start seven-second commercial for Wilkins was an immediate striking and was syndicated and reshot past Henson for local coffee companies throughout the United States, such as Community Coffee, Red Diamond Coffee, La Touraine Coffee, Nash'southward Coffee, and Jomar Instant coffee,^[fourteen] and he ultimately produced more than than 300 coffee ads.^[17] The characters were then successful in selling coffee that soon other companies began seeking them to promote their products, such equally bakeries like Merita Breads, service station chains such equally Standard Oil of Ohio and the downstream assets of Marathon Oil,^[xviii] and beverage bottlers such as Faygo.

Henson sold the rights to Wilkins and Wontkins to the Wilkins Company, who allowed marketing executive John T. Brady to sell the rights to some toymakers and film studios. However, in July 1992 Brady was sued by Jim Henson Productions for unfair contest in addition to copyright and trademark infringement. The Henson company claimed that Brady was incorrectly using Henson's name and likeness in their attempts to license the characters.^[19]

In 1963, Henson and his wife moved to New York Urban center where the newly formed Muppets, Inc. resided for some time. Jane quit performing to raise their children, and Henson hired author Jerry Juhl in 1961 and puppet performer Frank Oz in 1963 to replace her.^[twenty] Henson credited them both with developing much of the humour and character of his Muppets.^[21] He and Oz developed a close friendship and a performing partnership that lasted until Henson'due south decease; their teamwork is particularly evident in their portrayals of Bert and Ernie, Kermit and Miss Piggy, and Kermit and Fozzie Bear.^[22] In New York City, Henson formed a partnership with Bernie Brillstein, who managed Henson'due south career until the puppeteer's death.^[23]

In 1964 he and his family moved to Greenwich, CT until 1971, when they moved to Bedford, NY.^[24]

Henson's talk show appearances culminated when he devised Rowlf, a piano-playing anthropomorphic domestic dog that became the starting time Muppet to make regular appearances on The Jimmy Dean Show. Henson was so grateful for this pause that he offered Jimmy Dean a 40-percent interest in his production company, just Dean declined, stating that Henson deserved all the rewards for his own work, a decision of conscience that Dean never regretted.^[25] From 1963 to 1966, Henson began exploring filmmaking and produced a series of experimental films.^{[3] [26]} His 9-minute experimental motion picture Time Slice was nominated for an University Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1966. He produced The Cube in 1969. Effectually this time, he wrote the first drafts of a alive-action movie script with Jerry Juhl which became Tale of Sand. The script remained in the Henson Company archives until it was adjusted in the 2012 graphic novel Jim Henson's Tale of Sand.^{[ commendation needed ]}

During this time, Henson continued to piece of work with various companies who sought out his Muppets for advertising purposes. Amongst his clients were Wilson Meats, Royal Crown Cola, Claussen'southward Bread, La Choy, and Frito-Lay, which featured an early version of his character Cookie Monster to promote their Munchos line of murphy snacks. Like the Wilkins Java ads of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the formula stayed fairly similar. For instance, one of the Claussen's commercials featured Kermit the Frog dangling from a window while a grapheme named Mack asks him if he brought a loaf of the visitor's bread; when Kermit says he did not, Mack closes the window on Kermit's fingers and causes him to fall, suggesting he "drib downwardly" to the grocery shop to buy a loaf.

Sesame Street: 1969 [edit]

In 1969, boob tube producer Joan Ganz Cooney and her staff at the Children'southward Television Workshop were impressed by the quality and inventiveness of the Henson-led team, so they asked Henson and staff to work total-time on Sesame Street, a children's program for public boob tube that premiered on National Educational Television on November 10, 1969. Part of the show was set bated for a series of funny, colorful boob characters living on Sesame Street, including Grover, Cookie Monster, Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, and Big Bird. Henson performed the characters of Ernie, game-evidence host Guy Smiley, and Kermit, who appeared equally a roving tv set news reporter.

Henson'south Muppets initially appeared separately from the realistic segments on the Street, but the evidence was revamped to integrate the two segments, placing much greater emphasis on Henson'south work. Cooney frequently praised Henson's work, and PBS called him "the spark that ignited our fledgling broadcast service."^[8] The success of Sesame Street also allowed him to cease producing commercials, and he said that "it was a pleasance to get out of that world".^[14]

Henson was too involved in producing various shows and animation inserts during the first two seasons. He produced a series of counting films for the numbers 1 through 10 which always ended with a bakery (voiced by Henson) falling down the stairs while carrying the featured number of desserts. He also worked on a variety of inserts for the numbers two through 12, including the films "Dollhouse"; "Number Iii Brawl Film"; the stop-motions "King of Eight" and "Queen of Six"; the cut-out animation "Eleven Cheer"; and the computer animation "Nobody Counts To 10." He also directed the original "C Is For Cookie" and Tales from Muppetland, a brusque series of Boob tube movie specials that were comic retellings of archetype fairy tales aimed at a young audience and hosted by Kermit the Frog. The series included Hey, Cinderella!, The Frog Prince, and The Muppet Musicians of Bremen.^{[ citation needed ]}

Expansion of audience: 1970–1978 [edit]

Henson, Oz, and his squad were concerned that the company was becoming typecast solely as purveyors of children's entertainment, so they targeted an adult audience with a series of sketches on the first season of the belatedly-dark live telly variety show Sabbatum Night Alive. Eleven Land of Gorch sketches were aired betwixt October 1975 and January 1976 on NBC, with four additional appearances in March, April, May, and September 1976. Henson liked Lorne Michaels' work and wanted to exist a function of it, but he ultimately concluded that "what we were trying to do and what his writers could write for it never gelled".^[14] The SNL writers were not comfortable writing for the characters, and they often disparaged Henson's creations; Michael O'Donoghue quipped, "I won't write for felt."^[27]

Henson began developing a Broadway show and a weekly telly series both featuring the Muppets.^[14] The American networks rejected the series in 1976, believing that Muppets would entreatment only to a child audience. Then, Henson pitched the prove to British impresario Lew Class to finance the show. The show would be shot in the United Kingdom and syndicated worldwide.^[xiii] That same year, he scrapped plans for his Broadway show and moved his creative squad to England, where The Muppet Testify began taping. The show featured Kermit equally host and a diverseness of other characters, notably Miss Piggy, Gonzo the Great, and Fozzie Bear, along with other characters such every bit Animal. Henson's teammates sometimes compared his function to that of Kermit: a shy, gentle boss with "a whim of steel"^[22] who ran things similar "an explosion in a mattress factory."^[28] Caroll Spinney was the boob performer of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, and he remembered that Henson would never say he did not like something. "He would just go 'Hmm.'... And if he liked it, he would say, 'Lovely!'"^[7] Henson recognized Kermit as an alter ego, though he thought that Kermit was bolder than he; he once said of the character, "He tin can say things I hold back."^[29]

Transition to the big screen: 1979–1986 [edit]

The Muppets appeared in their first theatrical feature picture show The Muppet Pic in 1979. Information technology was both a critical and financial success;^[30] information technology fabricated $65.ii million domestically and was the 61st highest-grossing film at the time.^[31] Henson's idol Edgar Bergen died at historic period 75 during product of the moving-picture show, and Henson dedicated information technology to his retentiveness. Henson equally Kermit sang "The Rainbow Connection", and information technology hit number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for an Academy Honour for Best Original Song. The Henson-directed The Great Muppet Caper (1981) followed, and Henson decided to end the Muppet Evidence to concentrate on making films,^{[half dozen]} though the Muppet characters continued to appear in TV movies and specials.^{[ citation needed ]}

Henson as well aided others in their work. The producers of The Empire Strikes Back (1980) asked him to aid make-up artist Stuart Freeborn in the creation and joint of Yoda. He suggested that George Lucas use Frank Oz every bit the puppeteer and voice of Yoda, and Oz did so in it and the five subsequent Star Wars films. Lucas lobbied unsuccessfully to have Oz nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[32]

In 1982, Henson founded the Jim Henson Foundation to promote and develop the art of puppetry in the United States. Around that time, he began creating darker and more realistic fantasy films that did not feature the Muppets and displayed "a growing, brooding interest in mortality."^[22] He co-directed The Dark Crystal (1982) with Frank Oz, "trying to go toward a sense of realism—toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive".^[fourteen] To provide a visual style distinct from the Muppets, the puppets in The Dark Crystal were based on conceptual artwork by Brian Froud, and it was a financial and critical success.^{[ citation needed ]}

Besides in 1982, Henson co-founded Henson International Television with Peter Orton and Sophie Turner Laing as his partners. The company was a distribution visitor for children'southward, teens' and family television.^[33]

Oz directed The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) which grossed $25.5 million domestically and ranked 1 of the top xl films of 1984.^[34] Labyrinth (1986) was a fantasy that Henson directed by himself, but—despite some positive reviews; The New York Times called it "a fabled film"—it was a commercial thwarting.^[35] This demoralized Henson; his son Brian Henson described information technology as "the closest I've seen him to turning in on himself and getting quite depressed."^[22] The film after became a cult archetype.^[36]

Final years: 1987–1990 [edit]

Henson continued creating children'south television, such equally Fraggle Rock and the blithe Muppet Babies. He besides continued to address darker, more than mature themes with the folk tale and mythology oriented show The StoryTeller (1988), which won an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program. The side by side year, he returned to television receiver with The Jim Henson Hour which mixed lighthearted Muppet fare with more risqué material. It was critically well-received and won him another Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Diverseness or Music Program, but information technology was canceled after thirteen episodes due to depression ratings. Henson blamed its failure on NBC's constant rescheduling.^[37]

In late 1989, Henson entered into negotiations to sell his company to The Walt Disney Company for about $150 1000000, hoping that he would "be able to spend a lot more of my fourth dimension on the creative side of things" with Disney handling business concern matters.^[37] By 1990, he had completed production on the idiot box special The Muppets at Walt Disney World and the Disney-MGM Studios attraction Muppet*Vision 3D and he was developing film ideas and a television receiver series entitled Muppet High.^[7]

Personal life [edit]

Henson married Jane Nebel in 1959 and their children are Lisa (b. 1960), Cheryl (b. 1961), Brian (b. 1963), John (1965–2014),^[38] and Heather (b. 1970).^[39] Henson and his married woman separated in 1986, although they remained shut for the rest of his life.^[7] Jane said that Jim was so involved with his work that he had very little time to spend with her or their children.^[seven] All five of his children began working with Muppets at an early age, partly because "i of the best means of beingness around him was to piece of work with him", according to Cheryl.^{[12] [forty]} Henson was a strong supporter of the civil rights movement.^[41]

Disease and death [edit]

Henson appeared with Kermit on The Arsenio Hall Bear witness on May 4, 1990. This would be his final television set appearance. He disclosed to his publicist that he was tired and had a sore throat, simply that he believed it would soon go abroad. On May 12, 1990, Henson traveled to Ahoskie, Northward Carolina, with his daughter Cheryl to visit his father and stepmother. They returned to their home in New York Metropolis the following day, and Henson cancelled a Muppet recording session that had been scheduled for May 14, 1990.^[7] His estranged wife came to visit that nighttime.^{[ commendation needed ]} Henson was having trouble breathing when he woke up at around 2:00 a.m. (EST) on May 15, 1990, and began coughing up blood. He suggested to his married woman that he might be dying, only he did not desire to take time off from his schedule to visit a infirmary. Two hours later, Henson agreed to exist taken by taxi to the emergency room at New York–Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Shortly after admission, he stopped breathing and was rushed into the intensive care unit. X-ray images of his breast revealed multiple abscesses in both of his lungs equally a outcome of a previous bacterial infection. Henson was placed on a ventilator but quickly deteriorated over the next several hours despite increasingly ambitious handling with multiple antibiotics. Although the medicine killed off most of the infection, it had already weakened many of Henson'south organs,^[42] and he died at 1:21 a.1000. the post-obit morning. He was 53.

Dr. David Gelmont announced that Henson had died from Streptococcus pneumoniae, an infection that causes bacterial pneumonia.^[viii] Withal, on May 29, 1990, Gelmont reclassified it as organ dysfunction resulting from streptococcal toxic daze syndrome caused past Streptococcus pyogenes.^{[four] [5]} Gelmont noted Henson might take been saved had he chosen to undergo antibody handling fifty-fifty just a few hours sooner.^[43] Medical skilful Lawrence D. Altman also stated that Henson'due south death "may have shocked many Americans who believed that bacterial infections no longer could impale with such swiftness."^[4] Henson'southward closest collaborator, Frank Oz believes that the stress of negotiating with Disney led to Henson's death, stating in a 2021 interview that "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. Information technology made him sick".^[44]

Memorials [edit]

News of Henson's death spread quickly and admirers of his work responded from around the world with tributes and condolences. Many of Henson'south co-stars and directors from Sesame Street, the Muppets, and other works also shared their thoughts on his death.^[45] On May 21, 1990, Henson'south public memorial service was conducted in Manhattan at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Some other was conducted on July 2, 1990, at St Paul'south Cathedral in London. In accordance with Henson'southward wishes, no one in attendance wore black, and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band finished the service past performing "When the Saints Get Marching In". Harry Belafonte sang "Plough the Earth Around", a song that he had debuted on The Muppet Bear witness, equally each member of the congregation waved a brightly colored foam butterfly attached to a boob performer's rod.^{[46] [47]} Later, Big Bird (performed by Caroll Spinney) walked onto the phase and sang Kermit's signature song "Bein' Dark-green" while fighting back tears.^[48] Dave Goelz as Gonzo, Frank Oz, Kevin Clash, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, and Richard Chase sang a medley of Henson's favorite songs in their characters' voices, catastrophe with a performance of "Just One Person" while performing their Muppets.^[49] The funeral was described past Life as "an epic and nearly unbearably moving event".^[22] Henson was cremated and in 1992, his ashes were scattered near Taos in New Mexico.^[50]

Legacy [edit]

The Jim Henson Company and the Jim Henson Foundation connected after his death, producing new series and specials. Jim Henson'due south Fauna Shop too continues to create characters and special furnishings for both Henson-related and outside projects. Steve Whitmire, who had joined the Muppets cast in 1978, began performing Kermit the Frog six months after Henson's decease.^[51] He was dismissed from the cast in October 2016, and Matt Vogel succeeded him in the role of Kermit.^[52]

Sesame Workshop acquired the Sesame Street characters in 2000.^[53] On February 17, 2004, the Muppets and the Bear in the Big Blue House properties were sold to the Walt Disney Company.^{[54] [55] [56]}

I of Henson'due south last projects was the allure Muppet*Vision 3D, which opened at Disney'southward Hollywood Studios on May 16, 1991, exactly 1 year later his death. The Jim Henson Company retains the Creature Shop likewise every bit the remainder of its motion picture and tv set library, including Fraggle Rock, Farscape, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth.^[57] Brian Jay Jones published Jim Henson: The Biography on September 24, 2013, Henson's 77th birthday.^[58]

The moving-epitome collection of Jim Henson is held at the University Flick Archive. The collection contains the film piece of work of Jim Henson and the Jim Henson Company.^[59]

Henson'southward characters are currently performed past Vogel (Kermit), Peter Linz (Ernie, Link Hogthrob), Eric Jacobson (Guy Smiley, The Newsman), Dave Goelz (Waldorf) and Bill Barretta (Rowlf, The Swedish Chef, Dr. Teeth, Mahna Mahna).^{[ citation needed ]}

A biopic pic based on Henson's life, known as Muppet Human being, has been in development at Walt Disney Pictures and The Jim Henson Visitor since 2010. In April 2021, information technology was reported that Michael Mitnick was hired to rewrite the screenplay, previously written by Aaron and Hashemite kingdom of jordan Kandell. Lisa Henson will serve equally producer.^[60]

Tributes [edit]

• In 1971, the University of Maryland's National Residence Hall Honorary chapter was founded every bit the Jim Henson Affiliate. The UMD NRHH Chapter is still the Jim Henson Chapter to this twenty-four hours. The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library created an exhibit from 2019 to 2020 highlighting Jim Henson'due south time at the academy.^{[61] [62]}
• Henson is honored both every bit himself and every bit Kermit the Frog on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Only three other people accept received this honor: Walt Disney as both himself and Mickey Mouse; Mel Blanc as both himself and Bugs Bunny; and Mike Myers as both himself and Shrek. Henson was posthumously inducted into the Walk of Fame in 1991.^[63]
• Henson received an Honorary Doctorate of Messages from Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, New York (June 1982)^[64]
• Henson was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1987.^[65]
• Henson received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1987.^[66]
• The theater and Visual and Performing Arts Academy at his alma mater, Northwestern High School, in Hyattsville, Md, is named in his honour.^[67]
• Henson featured in The American Adventure in Epcot at the Walt Disney Globe Resort.^[68]
• The Jim Henson Exhibit, located in Leland, Mississippi, features an assortment of original Muppet characters, official certificates from the Mississippi Legislature honoring Henson and his characters, and a statue of Kermit in the middle of the stream behind the museum.^[69]
• The 1990 television special The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson allowed the Muppets themselves to pay tribute to Henson. The special featured interviews with Steven Spielberg and others.^[70]
• Tom Smith's Henson tribute song, "A Male child and His Frog", won the Pegasus Accolade for All-time Filk Song in 1991.^[71]
• The classes of 1994, 1998, and 1999 at the University of Maryland, College Park, Henson's alma mater, commissioned a life-size statue of Henson and Kermit the Frog, which was defended on September 24, 2003, which would have been Henson's 67th birthday. The statue price $217,000 and is displayed outside Maryland'south student union.^{[72] [73]} In 2006, the University of Maryland introduced l statues of its school mascot, Testudo the Terrapin, with various designs chosen by different sponsoring groups. Among them was Kertle, a statue designed to expect like Kermit the Frog by Washington, DC-based artist Elizabeth Baldwin.^[74]
• In 2003, Jim Henson was honored at the annual Norsk Høstfest in Minot, North Dakota.^[75]
• Our Atlan, Thibaut Berland, and Damien Ferrie wrote, directed, and blithe a 3D tribute to Henson entitled Over Time that was shown as part of the 2005 Electronic Theater at SIGGRAPH.^{[76] [77]}
• On September 28, 2005, the U.S. Mail issued a sheet of commemorative stamps honoring Henson and the Muppets.^[78]
• On August nine, 2011, Jim Henson posthumously received the Disney Legends Accolade. Two of his characters, Kermit the Frog and Rowlf the Domestic dog, performed "The Rainbow Connection" in his honor.^[79]
• On September 24, 2011, Leland renamed one of their bridges "The Rainbow Connectedness" to accolade Henson and his work.^[80] He was also honored with a Google doodle on his 75th birthday; the Google logo had six Muppets that were clickable using the "hand" buttons.^[81]
• The Heart for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta opened a gallery of Muppets exhibits within the Worlds of Puppetry exhibition at the Middle in November 2015, a profoundly scaled-down version of what was announced in 2007 to have been a wing honoring Henson.^{[82] [83] [84]}
• In July 2016, Hyattsville, Maryland installed a memorial to Jim Henson in the metropolis's Magruder Park, featuring a big planter embossed with images of characters from Sam & Friends and benches inscribed with quotes from Henson.^{[85] [86]}
• The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited, an exhibition organised by the Museum of the Moving Prototype showcasing over 300 artefacts from Henson'southward career, premiered at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle before opening at its permanent home in New York City in 2017.^{[87] [88]} A travelling version of the exhibition, featuring over 100 objects and 25 historic puppets, has been hosted past several cultural institutions across the U.South. including Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles (June–September 2018),^[89] Albuquerque Museum (November 2019–Apr 2020),^{[90] [91]} Durham Museum in Omaha (October 2020–January 2021),^{[92] [93]} and The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn (June–September 2021).^{[94] [95]}
• In 2018, the American Banjo Museum inducted Henson into its hall of fame, for his positive portrayal of the banjo in his shows and in The Muppet Movie.^[96]
• In 2020, the 1979 song "Rainbow Connectedness" from The Muppet Movie (performed past Henson equally Kermit) was accounted "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry.^[97]
• On September 7, 2021, a blue plaque was unveiled at Jim Henson's erstwhile Hampstead home, l Downshire Colina NW3^[98] to honour his artistic creativity. Henson purchased his London dwelling in 1979 after ITV commissioned the Muppet serial, filmed at Elstree Studios.

Filmography [edit]

Movie [edit]

Twelvemonth	Motion picture	Manager	Producer	Screenwriter	Actor	Role	Notes
1965	Time Slice	Yep	Yep	Yes	Yeah	Man	Short moving-picture show
1979	The Muppet Movie	No	Yes	No	Yes	Kermit the Frog Rowlf the Dog Dr. Teeth Waldorf Swedish Chef Boosted Muppets
1981	The Dandy Muppet Caper	Yes	No	No	Yes	Kermit the Frog Rowlf the Dog Dr. Teeth Waldorf Swedish Chef The Newsman Additional Muppets
1982	The Dark Crystal	Yes	Yep	Yes	Yes	Jen skekZok/The Ritual Master skekSo/The Emperor	Puppeteering simply Co-directed with Frank Oz
1984	The Muppets Have Manhattan	No	Yeah	No	Yep	Kermit the Frog Rowlf the Dog Dr. Teeth Waldorf Swedish Chef The Newsman Ernie Boosted Muppets	Executive Producer
1985	Into the Dark	No	No	No	Yes	Man on the telephone	Cameo
	Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird	No	No	No	Yes	Ernie Kermit the Frog
1986	Labyrinth	Yes	No	No	No
1990	The Witches	No	Yeah	No	No
1991	Muppet*Vision 3D	Yep	No	No	Yes	Kermit the Frog Waldorf The Swedish Chef	3D motion-picture show attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios, posthumous release

Television [edit]

Yr	Picture show	Managing director	Producer	Screenwriter	Actor	Role	Notes
1954	The Junior Morning Testify	No	No	No	Yes	Pierre the French Rat Additional Muppets	aired on WTOP-TV
	Sabbatum	No	No	No	Yep	Additional Muppets
1955–1956	Afternoon with Inga	No	No	No	Yes	Additional Muppets	aired on WRC-Television receiver
1955	In Our Boondocks	No	No	No	Yes	Sam Kermit Yorick Additional Muppets
1955–1961	Sam and Friends	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Sam Harry the Hipster Kermit Professor Madcliffe Omar Yorick Pierre the French Rat Additional Muppets
1956	Footlight Theater	No	No	No	Yes	Sam Additional Muppets
1962	Tales of the Tinkerdee	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Kermit the Frog Additional Muppets	Unaired Airplane pilot bachelor on YouTube
1963–1966	The Jimmy Dean Show	No	No	No	Yes	Rowlf the Dog
1969	The Cube	Yes	Yes	Aye	No
	The Magician of Id test pilot	No	Aye	No	Yes	Additional Muppets	Airplane pilot available on YouTube
	Hey, Cinderella!	Yes	No	No	Yes	Kermit the Frog Additional Muppets
1969–1990	Sesame Street	Yes	No	Yep	Yes	Ernie Kermit the Frog Guy Smiley Mahna Mahna Dan Henry Lance Captain Vegetable Mr. Nose The King Stan Harold Happy Sammy the Snake Additional Muppets
1970	The Muppets on Puppets	No	Yes	No	Yep	Himself Rowlf the Dog Kermit Additional Muppets	Executive Producer Filmed in 1968
1971	The Frog Prince	Yes	Aye	No	Yes	Kermit the Frog Additional Muppets
1972	The Muppet Musicians of Bremen	Yes	Aye	No	Yeah	Kermit the Frog Boosted Muppets
1974	The Muppets Valentine Show	Aye	Yes	No	Yes	Wally Kermit the Frog Rowlf the Domestic dog Ernie Boosted Muppets	Executive Producer
1975	The Muppet Bear witness: Sex and Violence	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Nigel George Washington The Swedish Chef Dr. Teeth Waldorf Kermit the Frog Additional Muppets
1976–1981	The Muppet Evidence	No	Yes	Yes	Yeah	Kermit the Frog Rowlf the Dog Dr. Teeth Waldorf The Swedish Chef Link Hogthrob The Newsman Additional Muppets
1977	Emmet Otter'due south Jug-Band Christmas	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Kermit the Frog Harvey Beaver Howard Snake Mayor Harrison Fox	Boob tube moving picture
1978	Christmas Eve on Sesame Street	No	No	No	Yes	Kermit the Frog Ernie
1983–1987	Fraggle Rock	Yeah	Yep	Yes	Yes	Cantus the Minstrel Convincing John	Executive Producer
1983	Big Bird in China	No	No	No	Aye	Ernie	Television film
	Don't Consume the Pictures	No	No	No	Yep
1985	Little Muppet Monsters	No	No	No	Yeah	Kermit the Frog (alive-action boob simply) Dr. Teeth
1986	The Muppets: A Celebration of xxx Years	No	Yeah	No	Yep	Kermit the Frog Rowlf the Dog Dr. Teeth Waldorf The Swedish Chef Link Hogthrob Ernie Harry the Hipster Additional Muppets	Television film Executive Producer
	The Tale of the Bunny Picnic	Yes	Yeah	No	Yes	The Domestic dog	Television film
	The Christmas Toy	No	Aye	No	Yes	Jack-in-the-Box Kermit the Frog
1987–1988	The StoryTeller	No	Yep	No	No		Executive Producer
1987	Fraggle Stone: The Animated Series	No	Yes	No	No
	A Muppet Family unit Christmas	No	Yes	No	Yeah	Kermit the Frog Rowlf the Dog Dr. Teeth Waldorf Swedish Chef The Newsman Ernie Guy Smiley Baby Kermit Babe Rowlf Additional Muppets	Television picture show Executive Producer
1988	Sing-Forth, Dance-Forth, Do-Along	No	Yes	No	Yes	Rowlf the Dog Penguins Kermit the Frog	Entry in the Play-Along Video serial Executive Producer
1984–1991	Muppet Babies	No	Yes	No	No		Executive Producer
1989	Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting	No	Yep	No	Aye	Ernie Kermit the Frog Additional Muppets	Television picture Executive Producer
	The Jim Henson Hour	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Himself Kermit the Frog Rowlf the Dog Additional Muppets	Executive Producer
1990	The Earth Day Special	Yes	No	No	Aye	Kermit the Frog	segment: "Kermit the Frog"
	The Muppets at Walt Disney World	No	Aye	No	Yes	Kermit the Frog Rowlf the Dog Dr. Teeth Waldorf Link Hogthrob The Swedish Chef	Television special Executive Producer

Video games [edit]

Yr	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Oscar's Letter Party	Kermit the Frog	[ citation needed ]
	Permit'south Learn to Play Together	Ernie	[ citation needed ]
1991	Sesame Street Numbers	Ernie Kermit the Frog[99]	Voice just; Posthumous release
	Sesame Street Messages

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Further reading [edit]

• Finch, Christopher (1981). Of Muppets and Men: The Making of The Muppet Show . New York: Muppet Press/Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN0-394-52085-viii.
• Finch, Christopher (1993). Jim Henson: The Works—The Art, the Magic, the Imagination . New York: Random House. ISBN0-679-41203-4.
• Jones, Brian Jay (2013). Jim Henson: The Biography. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN978-0-345-52611-3.

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Preceded by None	Performer of Kermit the Frog 1955–1990	Succeeded by Steve Whitmire
Preceded past None	Performer of Ernie 1969–1990	Succeeded by Steve Whitmire
Preceded by None	Performer of Captain Vegetable 1982	Succeeded by Richard Hunt
Preceded by None	Performer of The Muppet Newsman 1976–1989	Succeeded past Jerry Nelson
Preceded past None	Performer of Link Hogthrob 1977–1990	Succeeded past Steve Whitmire
Preceded by None	Performer of Rowlf the Canis familiaris 1962–1990	Succeeded by Bill Barretta
Preceded by None	Performer of The Swedish Chef 1975–1990	Succeeded by David Rudman
Preceded past None	Performer of Dr. Teeth 1975–1990	Succeeded by John Kennedy
Preceded by None	Performer of Mahna Mahna 1969–1986	Succeeded by Bill Barretta
Preceded by None	Performer of Waldorf 1975–1990	Succeeded past Dave Goelz
Preceded by None	Performer of Guy Smiley 1969–1990	Succeeded past Don Reardon

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