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Grammy Awards 1989. James Maury "Jim" Henson ( Greenville, 24 de setembro de 1936 – Nova Iorque, 16 de maio de 1990) foi o criador e manipulador dos bonecos Muppets .
James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, animator, actor, and filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Henson was also well known for creating Fraggle Rock (1983–1987) and as the director of The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986).
Há 5 dias · Jim Henson faleceu em 1990 e recebeu várias homenagens que fizeram jus ao tamanho do seu trabalho. Na verdade, foram dois grandes memoriais que, inclusive, contaram com a presença dos Muppets.
Há 5 dias · Jim Henson, o homem das ideias. O documentário Jim Henson, o Homem das Ideias foi feito com total colaboração da família Henson, que segue trabalhando com animação. O foco do filme é apresentar às novas gerações detalhes do processo criativo desse pioneiro da televisão e revelar aos fãs dos Muppets a intimidade desse homem visionário.
- Early Years
- Sam and Friends
- Sesame Street
- The Muppet Show
- Fantasy Films
- Fraggle Rock
- The Jim Henson Hour
- Henson's Legacy
- Muppeteer Credits
- Directing Credits
James Maury Henson was born in Greenville, Mississippi on September 24, 1936. The Henson family lived in Stoneville, an adjacent unincorporated community where Henson's father worked as a USDA agronomist. Henson attended elementary school in the neighboring community of Leland. Ten years later, in 1946, Henson moved with his family to Hyattsville, ...
Henson made his earliest foray into television puppetry with friend and first puppeteering partner Russell Wall in the summer of 1954. The two created the puppet Pierre the French Rat and performed on The Junior Morning Show on local station WTOP. Although the show lasted only three weeks before being cancelled, Henson quickly landed a puppeteering...
That same year, Joan Ganz Cooney and the newly-formed Children's Television Workshop approached Henson about creating and performing puppets on a new show aimed at preschoolers. The show would become Sesame Street, and it introduced viewers to such memorable characters as Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, Count von Count, Cookie Monster, ...
Henson always felt that puppetry should be for all ages, including adults, and he was frustrated that Sesame Street, even with its appeal to adults, was still children's programming. The Muppets were labeled "kiddie entertainment" by network executives. His agent Bernie Brillstein got him as an act on the first season of the groundbreaking Saturday...
Never one to rest on his laurels, Henson moved on to an even more ambitious project. With the help of fantasy illustrator Brian Froud, he created a Tolkien-like world for the film The Dark Crystal. This production was entirely populated by extremely detailed, realistic-looking puppets -- a major breakthrough and change from the (intended) cartoony ...
In 1983, Henson introduced a new show for children called Fraggle Rock. The show was concerned with promoting understanding across cultures and around the world, a subject that was very important to him. Henson was the guiding force in developing the concept for the series, which began with his own notes for "The Woozle World" scribbled on a small ...
Jim Henson continued to innovate with the creation of the computer-generated puppet character Waldo C. Graphic for The Jim Henson Hour in 1989. Years before the widespread use of CGI and the rise of Pixar Animation Studios, Henson had a computerized character interacting with Muppets on a weekly TV show. A puppeteer could perform the character in r...
In late 1989, Henson made a radical change in his career. Wanting to become less of a businessman and focus more on the creative side of his company, he entered into talks with Michael Eisner to sell his company and characters (minus those of Sesame Street) to The Walt Disney Company. After Henson's sudden and untimely death, negotiations went awry...
for a complete character gallery, see Jim Henson characters 1. The Muppet Show characters: Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog, Dr. Teeth, Waldorf, The Swedish Chef, Link Hogthrob, Jim, and others... 2. Sesame Street characters: Ernie, Guy Smiley, and others... 3. Sam and Friends: Sam, Professor Madcliffe, Harry the Hipster, Omar, Pierre the French Rat,...
Há 1 dia · Learn about Jim Henson, the American puppeteer who created the Muppets and Sesame Street characters. Find out about his life, career, awards, death and legacy.
The Jim Henson Company (formerly known as Muppets, Inc., Henson Associates, Inc., and Jim Henson Productions, Inc.; commonly referred to as Henson) is an American entertainment company located in Los Angeles, California. The company is known for its innovations in the field of puppetry, particularly through the creation of Kermit the ...
