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The Great Muppet Caper is a 1981 musical heist comedy film directed by Jim Henson (in his feature directorial debut) and the second theatrical film featuring the Muppets.The film stars Muppet performers Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, and Steve Whitmire, as well as Charles Grodin and Diana Rigg, with special cameo appearances by John Cleese, Robert Morley, Peter ...
Beauregard also appeared in The Great Muppet Caper in 1981, where he played a taxi driver. He brought Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo to the Happiness Hotel, and right through the front door, into the lobby. Beauregard's other major role was in the 1990 special The Muppets at Walt Disney World, where he dragged Miss Piggy onto a series of thrill rides.
The project ultimately was cancelled, and eventually the TV series Muppets Tonight and the video game Muppet Monster Adventure were released instead. In March 2009, it was announced during a special event at Disney's Hollywood Studios , that The Walt Disney Company , who acquired The Muppets in 2004, was developing a Halloween special based on ...
The Muppet Movie: Gonzo [8] 1981 The Great Muppet Caper [9] 1992 The Muppet Christmas Carol: Gonzo / Charles Dickens [10] 1995 Toy Story: Mr. Potato Head [11] The Tale of Tillie's Dragon: Assistant Mayor Wilner 1996 Muppet Treasure Island: Gonzo [12] 1998 Spriggan: Mr. Yamamoto 1999 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut: Mr. Garrison [13] The ...
As a teenager, he built the first Muppet penguin puppet for the opening "Lullaby of Broadway" segment of a Season 3 episode of The Muppet Show. [3] During his summer break from high school at the age of 17, Henson assisted in the production of The Great Muppet Caper (1981); skilled in the use of marionette puppets, he helped create and operate ...
A great player at Studio 8H doesn’t just make us laugh—they change the trajectory of the show ... The 25 Best 'Saturday Night Live!' Cast Members of All Time. Abigail Covington. December 24 ...
Saturday Night is a fast-paced, head-turning movie recounting the 90 minutes before Saturday Night Live first aired on Oct. 11, 1975, but not everything is 100 percent accurate in the film.
Other notable film roles include Real Life (1979), Seems Like Old Times (1980), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Ishtar (1987), Dave (1993), and Clifford (1994). Grodin co-starred in the action comedy Midnight Run (1988) and in the family film Beethoven (1992). Grodin made his acting debut in 1958 appearing in the NBC anthology series Decision.