1 / 2Caroll Spinney -- seen here at the 2017 Sesame Workshop Dinner in New York with several other"Sesame Street" characters -- portrayed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for nearly 50 yearsPuppeteer Caroll Spinney, who brought Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life on the iconic children's television show"Sesame Street" for half a century, died on Sunday at the age of 85.
Those characters -- one a towering yellow bird, the other a grumpy, green monster in a trash can -- existed in what many considered a magical world created by puppet master Jim Henson and including pals Bert and Ernie, the lovable Cookie Monster and the goofy Kermit the Frog. When Henson died in 1990, Big Bird sang Kermit's sweetly melancholy tune"It's Not Easy Being Green" at a memorial service.
"We are really grateful that we are all here together tonight, because he was an inspiration for us all," Leslie Carrara Rudolph, who portrays Abby Cadabby on the show, told AFP on the red carpet at the Kennedy Center. He hand-picked his successors in the two major roles -- after mentoring them for more than two decades.
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