Jim Henson by Christopher Finch6/28/2023 In 1959, Jane and Jim married and eventually had five children together who have continued to build on their parents’ legacy At university, Jim Henson met Jane Nebel (1934-2013), who helped create the first Muppets and became his first performing partner. Kermit (not exactly a frog yet) was a featured puppet on the show. While a freshman at the University of Maryland, Jim Henson began his own daily, five-minute television show, Sam and Friends. This combination of television and puppetry would mark his career. Jim was fascinated by television and while still in high school he found television work as a puppeteer for a local Washington, DC station. Jim Henson spent his early years in Mississippi, and at the age of eleven his family moved to Maryland. Their nuanced personalities reflect the range of human qualities giving them even greater depth and appeal. Henson’s puppet characters, whose unique, anarchic humour and messages of tolerance in dozens of languages, are caring, exuberant, and funny. His innovations in puppetry have inspired new ways of performing for the screen that are widely used around the world. The innovative work of Jim Henson’s Muppets and Sesame Street appears on television in 140 countries and his fantasy films have become classics to multiple generations. American puppeteer, animator, television and film producer.
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