<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Official website </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Signature </Th> </Tr> <P> Caroll Edwin Spinney (born December 26, 1933) is an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street since 1969 . He is usually credited as Caroll Spinney but has sometimes been credited using the alternate spelling Carroll Spinney or under the name Ed Spinney . </P> <P> Caroll Edwin Spinney was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on December 26, 1933 . His mother, a native of Bolton, England, named him Caroll because he was born the day after Christmas . He has been drawing and painting since he was a child . He developed a love of puppeteering when he saw a performance of Three Little Kittens at the age of five . This motivated him to purchase a monkey puppet from a rummage sale three years later and put on a puppet show utilizing the monkey and a plush snake . The following Christmas his mother gifted him with a Punch and Judy puppet theater . He continued puppeteering throughout his childhood and adolescence and used his performances to raise money for college tuition . </P>

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