Featured roles[]
Cameos in Henson/Muppet productions[]
Wilson's Meats Meeting Film #2Himself/man in commercial
(with Jerry Nelson)
(with Jerry Nelson)
Rowlf-Intypewriter pianist
Rowlf-Intypewriter organist
Rowlf-InFelbertson
Rowlf-In"Rotate and Tilt" dancer
Song of ThreeJuggler
Flapsole SneakersMan toasting with Vitajuice
Out to Lunchnetwork employee
Herb Alpert and the TJBAudience Member
1974 TV Special
1974 TV Special
The Muppets Go HollywoodHimself
The Great Muppet CaperDubonnet Club patron
(with Amy Van Gilder)
(with Amy Van Gilder)
I'm Gonna Always Love YouMan in frog slippers
A Celebration of 30 YearsHimself
A Muppet Family ChristmasHimself
Neat Stuff To Know & To DoHimself/man in the park
Pictured appearances[]
Meeting Film "Sell Sell Sell!"Part of family photo
Muppet Babies
"This Little Piggy Went to Hollywood"Photo on TV
"This Little Piggy Went to Hollywood"
Sesame Street Episode 4192Face on poster
The MuppetsJim Henson and Kermit photo on the wall.
The Muppets Gold SpotJim Henson pole banner
A Little Screen Test on the Way to the Read-ThroughAn image of Jim from Time Piece hangs in a cubicle.
Caricatured appearances[]
The Sesame Street StorybookHenson and Oz are pictured in the upstairs windows of 123 Sesame Street in the frontispiece.
The Muppets comic stripSeptember 26, 1982
You Are the Star of a Muppet Adventurebarge captain
The Muppet Show on TourHenson's face was incorporated into the design of Kermit's sweater.
Sesame Street MagazineJoe Mathieu drew Henson's likeness on the face of a park statue for a neighborhood scene.
The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 StorybookHenson and Frank Oz are pictured in the audience of the circus.
"The Mild Bunch" comic, from Jim Henson's Muppet Annual 1980Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, and Dave Goelz escape from jail.
Sesame Street Magazine (NHK) cover (December 1995)Jim Henson as Santa Claus, pulling a bag full of Sesame Street characters. Artwork was a fan commission.
The Musical Monsters of Turkey HollowHenson appears as part of the townsfolk and later as a puppeteer at the book's end.
My Muppets ShowFeatures Jim puppet caricature.
"I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" 2019 lyric videoHenson appears briefly in the rocket command center.
The Muppet Christmas Carol: The Illustrated Holiday ClassicHenson and Frank Oz are seen as attendees to the Fozziwig Christmas party.
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Muppet Babies
"Win a Twin" and "Friend-a-versary"Caricatured crowd member.[1]
"Win a Twin" and "Friend-a-versary"
References[]
Indirect references specifically to Jim Henson (birthday, place of birth, etc).
Muppet*Vision 3DThe ID # on the cast member badge bears Henson's birth date, 09/24/36
Kermit's Swamp YearsWilson's license plate is JMH-924 — James Maury Henson, Sept 24
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The MuppetsThe Muppet Theatre's curtain rail system references Henson's birthday
Muppets Haunted MansionThe house number in the address of the mansion is Henson's birthday
Potential cameos[]
Professor Jim in early tests of the "Numerosity" films.
Henson dressed for the part of carriage driver in The Muppets Take Manhattan
- In his earliest pitch for The Muppet Show in the summer of 1969, in lieu of a celebrity guest for the first episode (initially proposing Danny Kaye), Henson considered hosting the show himself, "in a low-key, unperformer way a la Ernie Kovacs."[2]
- Henson filmed scenes for the Sesame Street "Numerosity" film series with himself as the recurring professor figure. Ultimately, a different actor was chosen.[3]
- An onscreen cameo by Henson was taped for The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, where Jim introduces Nigel before they segue into the first conference room scene. The cameo was cut for time before the special went to air.[4][5]
- An early screenplay draft for The Great Muppet Caper called for Henson to play the man the main trio meet when they land in Great Britain.[6]
- Henson filmed a cameo as the Central Park carriage driver in The Muppets Take Manhattan, but was ultimately cut from the film. In the wide shot of the carriage, a stand-in was made to dress like Henson, who was legally unable to drive the carriage.[7]
See also[]
- Jim Henson's cameo in Into the Night.
Sources[]
- ↑ Producer Matt Danner on Twitter MattyDanner May 23, 2020
- ↑ Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography digital location 3621
- ↑ "Sesame Street: Lost and Found" event at Museum of the Moving Image, November 24, 2019.
- ↑ Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones, page 215.
- ↑ Archival script document displayed at The Jim Henson Exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image
- ↑ The Great Muppet Caper script (July 22, 1980 draft)
- ↑ Heather Henson at "Sing-a-Long Stroll-a-Long for Jim Henson's Birthday in NYC!" September 24, 2023
