Caroll Spinney, the big-hearted Muppeteer who climbed inside a claustrophobic feathered costume to play the beloved 'Sesame Street' character Big Bird for almost a half-century, has died. He was 85.

Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer and actor behind "Sesame Street's" Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, died Sunday. He was 85. He died at his home in Connecticut, according to a press release from Sesame ...

Caroll Spinney, the actor and puppeteer who portrayed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street over five decades, died Sunday at age 85. The Sesame Workshop said Spinney had died at home in ...