The Muppet Movie
1979
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Franklin Burr Tillstrom (October 13, 1917 – December 6, 1985) was a puppeteer and the creator of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
Burr Tillstrom was the creator and only puppeteer on the show, which premiered as the hour-long Junior Jamboree locally on WBKB in Chicago, Illinois, on October 13, 1947. The program was renamed Kukla, Fran and Ollie (KFO) and transferred to WNBQ (the predecessor of Chicago's WMAQ-TV) on November 29, 1948.
Burr Tillstrom (1917–1985), a native Chicagoan, for his contributions to the early days of television and in particular for his creation of unforgettable puppet characters such as Kukla and Ollie.
Burr Tillstrom was the first puppeteer to reach millions of American television viewers with shows that were witty, charming, and sophisticated enough to appeal to adults as well as children. In 1976, his puppet character Kukla was named “America’s Punch”.
Dec 8, 1985 · Burr Tillstrom, the creator of the popular television show ''Kukla, Fran and Ollie,'' died Friday at his home in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 68 years old.
Feb 12, 1986 · Burr Tillstrom, the gentle genius who created a puppet show called “Kukla, Fran and Ollie,” died in December in Palm Springs as quietly as he had lived. For those of us who were...
Burr Tillstrom (1917-1985) was a puppeteer best known as the creator of the early television series Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Tillstrom created his first puppet, a clown character who would be named Kukla following an encounter with a Russian ballerina, in 1936.
Mar 24, 2020 · Kukla, Fran and Ollie starred Fran Allison, a human host, opposite a madcap cast of puppets, all voiced and puppeteered by a Chicago native named Burr Tillstrom. The two main puppet...
Aug 9, 2021 · Mr. Tillstrom, the winner of three Emmys as well as two Peabody Awards, television`s top award, and more than 50 other awards, died quietly while reading his newspaper...
Nov 6, 2017 · Burr Tillstrom was there at the creation. It was April 30, 1939. He was at the New York World’s Fair, demonstrating the power of television on the nation’s first regular series of telecasts. He had brought his troupe of puppets with him that day — Kukla and Ollie and Madame Ophelia Ooglepuss.
