Richard frank oznowicz biography of rory

Don Austen (born 1958 in London, England) is an English puppeteer. He began his career in 1981 at Cannon Hill Park's puppet theatre in Birmingham. Austen joined the Jim Henson Creature Shop in 1986 for the movie Labyrinth. He was a puppeteer for other blockbuster movies including Santa Claus: The Movie (1985), The Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Bear (L'ours) (1988), The Witches (1990), and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999).Most notably he performed in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), inside both the Ghost of Christmas Present and The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. He also managed briefly to boost numbers in Muppet Treasure Island (1996) as Pirate Crew and Cannibals. Austen's British TV debut was on the irreverent cult ITV puppet show Spitting Image. (1987–90) Austen voiced and puppeteered Sky One's DJ Kat for more than 2000 award-winning DJ Kat Shows (1989–95) and 200 breakfast shows as Earl E Bird on Channel 4's Early Bird (1991). Austen voiced/puppeteered feline gang leader Danny Mogg (1991) in comedy drama series The Wild Bunch. This TF1/Channel 4 co-production, recorded at AB Studios Paris, was a vehicle for French TV star Dorothee. During the LIVE ITV Saturday morning show What's Up Doc? (1992–94) Austen teamed up with John Eccleston to write and puppeteer a run of British TV favourites. Firstly, The Wolves, aka Bro & Bro, and within weeks earn their own spin-off comedy drama Wolf It! (1993–96) for four seasons. Austen and Eccleston joined BBC1's Saturday morning 3hr flagship Live & Kicking (1995–2000) as cantankerous Leprechauns Sage & Onion – built by Darryl Worbey Studios – while that other Irish phenomenon, Riverdance, packed houses in London's Theatreland. As Mr. Sage, sporting a rather dodgy hairpiece, Austen wrote and puppeteered comedy sketches for five years. Outliving three sets of in vision presenters, he became the longest surviving 'presenter' (Eccleston took time out to perform Rygel in the

  • May 25, 1944: Puppeteer, actor

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    Stage name Birth name Life Notability Notes Bun BBernard Freeman 1973– American rapper Cardi BBelcalis Almanzar 1992– American rapper Cheryl BCheryl Burke 1972–2011 American journalist Derek BDerek Bolland 1965–2009 British rapper Eric B.Louis Eric Barrier 1963– American rapper (Eric B. & Rakim) Jazzie BTrevor Beresford Romeo 1963– British DJ and producer (Soul II Soul) Jazzy BJaswinder Singh Bains 1975– Indo-Canadian Punjabi singer and songwriter Jon B.Jonathan Buck 1974– American singer, songwriter and producer Katy BKathleen Brien 1989– English singer and songwriter Max BCharly Wingate 1978– American rapper and singer Mel BMelanie Brown 1975– English singer, songwriter and television personality (Spice Girls) Plan BBenjamin Ballance-Drew 1983– English rapper, singer, songwriter and actor Roxee BAnne Roxanne Barcelo 1985– Filipino-American actress, model and singer Lída BaarováLudmila Babková 1914–2000 Czech actress Bob BabbittRobert Kreinar 1937–2012 Hungarian-American musician (The Funk Brothers) Alice BabsHilder Alice Nilson 1924–2014 Swedish singer and actress Michael BacallMichael Buccellato 1973– American screenwriter and actor Barbara BachBarbara Goldbach 1947– American actress and model Catherine BachCatherine Bachman 1954– American actress Sebastian BachSebastian Bierk 1968– Canadian-American singer (Skid Row) Erykah BaduErica Wright 1971– American singer-songwriter Barbara BainMillicent Fogel 1931– American actress Cheryl BakerRita Crudgington 1954– English singer and television presenter (Bucks Fizz) Fay BakerFay Schwager 1917–1987 American actress George BakerJohannes Bouwens 1944– Dutch singer and songwriter (George Baker Selection) Josephine BakerFreda Josephin

    In Memoriams
    A Tribute to Clyde Adler of the Soupy Sales Show
    Lou Bunin
    Rand Bohn
    Punch and Judy Master Bob Mason
    Shari Lewis
    Buffalo Bob Smith
    Roland Sylwester
    Mike Oznowicz
    Arlyn Coad
    Shirley Dinsdale Layburn
    Senor Wences
    Margo Rose: Grand First Lady of American Puppetry

    These articles first appeared in the puppeteer newsletter, Puppet Life, for the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry. Unless otherwise credited, Greg wrote them as newsletter editor.Greg currently writes a column called Scene West for The Puppetry Journal, the periodical for Puppeters of America.

    Catalogues with puppets for sale to the general public.

    Steve Axtell produces some interesting hand puppets and illusions.
    Axtell Expressions, Inc.
    2889 Bunsen Ave H
    Ventura, CA 93003
    (805) 642-7282
    www.axtell.com

    Puppet Productions
    P.O. Box 1066
    DeSoto, Texas 75123-1066
    1-800-854-2151 They have some good sales during the year.
    Maher has a catalog of ventriloquist puppets and other hand puppets and supplies.

    Maher Studios
    Box 420
    Littelton, Colorado 80160
    1-303-798-6830

    One Way Street
    P.O. Box 5077
    Englewood, CO 80144-5077
    http://www.onewaystreet.com

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    April 1994

    SPOTLIGHT ON A PAST MEMBER - Joe Fischer

    In 1940, Joe Fischer, an early Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry member, lived in Westwood with his mother where he maintained close to 300 marionettes. He had made them over a 15 year period, starting in 1930, from a workbench inside his home.

    Fischer specialized in dancing marionettes and was one of the first puppeteers to present his puppet acts without a stage or drapes so that the entire process of operating the figure was in full view of the audience.

    Fischer worked in the engineering department at Douglas Aircraft along with several other puppeteers. They couldn't tour during war years and needed work. Although it was only a hobby, he put on weekly puppet shows at the Veterans Hospital in Westwood and was a popular performer at the

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