# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caroll-spinney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:56:49.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caroll-spinney"
name: "Caroll Spinney"
slug: "caroll-spinney"
description: "Caroll Edwin Spinney was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author, artist and speaker, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street from its inception in 1969 until 2018."
tagline: "American puppeteer (1933–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carroll_Spinney_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933-12-26"
deathDate: "2019-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.430274135876043
  historical:           21.80387333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818973/"
    handle:    "nm0818973"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.carollspinney.com/"
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    title: "Caroll Spinney"
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    title: "Caroll Spinney"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Caroll Spinney"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump