Long before Frank Oz brought many Muppets to life, his father, an amateur Dutch puppeteer, made a Hitler marionette as an act of defiance. He buried it during the war. By Adam Nagourney The puppet ...

There's a puppet in an exhibit that's opened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco that might be startling - marionette with a wooden head, black hair drawn across the forehead and a ...

A new exhibit shows several puppets crafted by the legendary puppeteer and director’s parents, who fled Antwerp during WWII. And from time to time, he’d rummage through the attic of his home. One day ...

Frank Oz has one of the most iconic voices in show business. Not only has he played Master Yoda, but he is responsible for some of Sesame Street and the Muppets’ most pivotal characters. For close to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A marionette puppet crafted in Europe during the 1930s is on display near the entrance at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum. The marionette is from the family of Frank ...

More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, famed puppeteer and voice actor Frank Oz says he has contracted the virus for the first time. Oz, an Oakland Technical High School graduate who got his ...