Biografía

Has appeared in many of director John Landis' films as a good luck charm of sorts. He did not appear in Al filo de la realidad (1983) and Landis had plenty of bad luck during that film. In De mendigo a millonario (1983), he plays a cop taking an inventory of Dan Aykroyd's personal items, ironically reprising his role from Los hermanos caradura (1980), where he took an inventory of the other Blues Brother's personal items, John Belushi, as Belushi was being freed from jail. He later went on to play the warden in Blues Brothers 2000.

Refuses to let anyone else try on the Yoda puppet from the "Star Wars" series. Oz has said he's extraordinarily protective of the character, and takes his role as Yoda, a cultural icon, very seriously.

El show de los Muppets (1976) character "Fozzie Bear" is actually not named after Frank Oz, as is widely believed. "Fozzie Bear" is named after El show de los Muppets (1976) builder Faz Fazakas.

One of his first performing duties for El show de los Muppets (1976) was performing Rowlf's right hand on The Jimmy Dean Show (1963).

Though Yoda only appears in two episodes of the original Star Wars trilogy, Oz managed to make three movies with Carrie Fisher by appearing with her in Los hermanos caradura (1980), the same year that El imperio contraataca (1980) was released. Then, in addition to working with Princess Leia's on-screen mother, Natalie Portman in all three prequels, he also directed Carrie Fisher's real-life mother, Debbie Reynolds, in ¿Es o no es? (1997).

If you look at a lot of the pieces on El show de los Muppets (1976) that came from Jim, there was a tremendous sweetness about them, and that's unique to Jim. Jim was never wimpy. He had a strength to his sweetness... that was great.

[on Jim Henson]: He envisioned a world where bears could tell jokes, chickens could sing, pigs could be stars and they all could ride bicycles.

[on El show de los Muppets (1976) head writer, Jerry Juhl]: He was the person responsible really for the heart of the Muppets. He just knew the characters better than anybody else. He was brilliant because he could be funny but not nasty. He always saw the affection between the characters. Nobody else could do that kind of writing... He was THE Muppet writer.

[About the fame of Miss Piggy]: I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

(On Touch of Evil) I think it opened up my view of film-that there's so much more that could be done. Actually, by breaking so many rules, he allowed other people to say, "Hey, I can maybe think of some stuff, too!" He just opened up the possibilities more for me. That's what he did.