I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story

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7.5/10

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Caroll Spinney in I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014)

Trailer for I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story

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Biography Documentary Drama

Caroll Spinney has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969; at 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.Caroll Spinney has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969; at 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.Caroll Spinney has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969; at 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.

Directors
- Dave LaMattina
- Chad N. Walker
Writer
- Dave LaMattina
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

1.7K

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Dave LaMattina
- Chad N. Walker
Writer
- Dave LaMattina
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 6 nominations total

Videos2

Trailer 1:41

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story

Photos8

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Caroll Spinney

Self

Jim Henson

Additional Muppets
(archive footage)
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Frank Oz

Self

Debra Spinney

Self

Fran Brill

Self

Steve Whitmire

Self
(archive footage)

Alison Bartlett

Self

Roscoe Orman

Self

Sonia Manzano

Self

Dave Goelz

Self

Jerry Nelson

Self

Emilio Delgado

Self

Matt Vogel

Self

Eric Jacobson

Self

Bob McGrath

Self

Jane Henson

Self

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph

Self
(as Leslie Carrara)

Loretta Long

Self

Directors
- Dave LaMattina
- Chad N. Walker
Writer
- Dave LaMattina
All cast & crew
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Trivia
The film was partially funded by fan donations. More than $120,000 was raised for the film after people donated amounts between $1 and $10,000.

Quotes
Sonia Manzano: I have always loved Big Bird because he's... complicated. So he has a lot of emotional qualities that a lot of the Muppets don't have.

Alternate versions
A segment about an incident where a caretaker of the Spinney property hit a jogger with his car and hid the body in a shed without the Spinney's knowledge was removed from the film when it was released on VOD and iTunes.

Connections
Features Bozo's Big Top (1966)

User reviews18

Featured review

10/10

The most emotional thing I've ever seen.

Seriously you will run through a gamut of emotions watching this. It's undeniable the amount of positivity that jim henson and his friends put forth into this world. Caroll spinney being one of the most important of them. You can see that this man puts out pure love into the world. Even if you aren't a sesame street fan or muppets fan, which i don't know who you are, you should watch this. It'll reach into all of your soul ans make you smile and cry and wish this man were still alive putting greatness out into the world. He is missed but luckily the impact that he made can only assure us that there is more good in the world thanks to him.