American puppeteer
According to Wikipedia, James Maury Henson was an American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, and filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of The Muppets and Fraggle Rock and director of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth . He was born in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in both Leland, Mississippi, and University Park, Maryland.
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