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Jim Henson was an American film director, television producer and puppeteer, best known as the creator of The Muppets. ... ... ( read more! ) Frank Oz born Richard Frank Oznowicz is a British-born American film director, actor, voice actor and puppeteer who is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show and for directing films, including the 1986 Little Shop Of Horrors remake and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He is also the operator and voice ... ... ( read more! ) Jerry Nelson (July 10, 1934 August 23, 2012) was an American puppeteer, best known for his work with The Muppets. Renowned for his wide range of characters and singing abilities, he performed Muppet characters on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and various Muppet movies and specials.Jerry Nelson, ... ... ( read more! ) Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 December 24, 2012) was an American actor. He best-known films include The Sting (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), True Confessions (1981), Tootsie (1982), Dick Tracy (1990) and O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both The Best Little Whoreh ... ... ( read more! ) Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor.Pendleton is known as a prolific character actor on the stage and screen, whose six-decade career has included roles in films including Catch-22 (1970) Whats Up, Doc (1972) The Front Page (1974) The Muppet Movie (1979), Short Circuit ( ... ... ( read more! ) Milton Berle was an Emmy-winning American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBCs Texaco Star Theater (194855), in 1948 he was the first major star of US television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr. Television to millions during TVs golden age. ... ... ( read more! ) Melvin James Brooks(neKaminsky June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and songwriter. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broadfarcesandparodies.A recipient ofnumerous accolades, he is one of21 entertainers to win the EGOT(which includes anEmmy, aGrammy, anOsc ... ... ( read more! ) James Harrison Coburn III (August 31, 1928 November 18, 2002) was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.Description above from the ... ... ( read more! ) Dominick "Dom" DeLuise (August 1, 1933 May 4, 2009) was an American actor and comedian. Known primarily for comedy roles, he rose to fame in the 1970s as a frequent guest on television variety shows. He is widely recognized for his performances in the films of Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, as well as a series of collaborations and a double act with ... ... ( read more! ) Elliott Gould (born August 29, 1938) is an American actor. He began acting in Hollywood films during the 1960s, and has remained prolific ever since. Some of his most notable films include M*A*S*H and Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, for which he received an Oscar nomination. In recent years, he has starred as Reuben Tishkoff in Oceans Eleven, Ocea ... ... ( read more! ) Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 July 27, 2003) was an American comedian, actor, and entertainer. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films54 in which he starred. These included a series of seven Road to... musical comedy films with Bing Crosby as Hopes top-billed partne ... ... ( read more! ) Madeline Gail Kahn (ne Wolfson September 29, 1942 December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including Whats Up, Doc (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Awardnominated roles in ... ... ( read more! ) Carolyn Laurie Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress and comedian.She became known in the 1970s in films such as Hester Street (for which she received an Oscar nomination) and Annie Hall. She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as Simka Gravas, the wife of Latka, the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Em ... ... ( read more! ) Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In addition, she won an Acade ... ... ( read more! ) Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer.Martin was born in Waco, Texas, and raised in Southern California, where his early influences were working at Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm and working magic and comedy acts at these and other smaller venues in ... ... ( read more! )