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Buckley poses with a Kermit puppet.
Simon Buckley is a British puppeteer and marionette performer who has worked on a number of Muppet and Creature Shop productions. His other credits include numerous British television shows and theatre productions; his best known character may be Nobby the Sheep from the show Gimme 5.
Muppet Credits
- The Tale of the Bunny Picnic (marionettes and hand puppets, uncredited).
- Labyrinth: Goblins (not the voice); marionette operator
- The Bear (Expressions; cable puppet operator)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (Muppet performer)
- Muppet Treasure Island (twelve weeks as principal puppeteer's stand in, additonal puppeteer and Sweetum's eyes)
- Lost in Space (Robot puppeteer)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (puppeteer)
- Muppet CD-ROM: The Muppets Inside (Muppet performer)
Non Muppet Puppeteering
- Spitting Image (most of it. In the later series he puppeteered but did not voice the Tony Blair puppet amongst many others)
- The Spooks Of Bottle Bay (Seasons 2 and 3 only)
- Gimmie Five (Nobby The Sheep)
- The Pig Attraction
Trivia
- According to his official website, Buckley is also an Anglican priest licensed to St Anne's Church in Soho (London).