Phil Eason (1960-2021[1]) was a British puppeteer who performed on Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets Most Wanted, and various Creature Shop productions. He was interviewed in The Crystal Calls: Making the Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance demonstrating how the character of Lore was performed on set.
Eason's other credits included Spitting Image (from Season 9 onwards) and performing Yaddle in The Phantom Menace. He was also an additional puppeteer on the Frank Oz film Little Shop of Horrors.
Muppet/Creature Shop Credits[]
- Labyrinth: Puppeteer (uncredited)
- The Bear: Bear Expressions
- The StoryTeller: Puppeteer (uncredited)
- The Neverending Story III: Key puppeteer (Junior Rockchewer)
- Muppet Treasure Island: Additional Muppet Performer (uncredited)
- Lost in Space: The Robot team
- Animal Farm: Napoleon (principal puppeteer)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Sugar Puffs: The Honey Monster puppeteer (2001-2004)
- ABBA's The Last Video
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Vogons
- Mee-Shee: The Water Giant: Principal puppeteer (Mee-Shee)
- Muppets Most Wanted: Additional UK Muppet Performer
- The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: Additional Puppeteer